Former England and Northants all-rounder David Capel dies aged 57 after long battle with illness
Former England and Northamptonshire all-rounder David Capel has died at the age of 57 after a two-year battle with illness.
Capel, who played 15 Tests and 23 one-day internationals between 1987 and 1990, was diagnosed with a brain tumour in 2018 and passed away at his home earlier on Wednesday, Northamptonshire said in a statement.
Capel passed away peacefully on Wednesday
The club said on their Twitter account: “It is with incredibly heavy hearts that we announce the death of former Northamptonshire and England great, David Capel at the age of 57.”
Capel represented the county for the entirety of his playing career between 1981 and 1998, making 270 first-class appearances where he amassed 10,869 runs and took 467 wickets, while he played a further 300 List A matches.
After he became the first Northamptonshire-born cricketer to represent England at Test level in 77 years when he faced Pakistan in the summer of 1987, he was among many who were tipped to succeed the great Sir Ian Botham.
Capel registered a half-century on debut and a 98 at Karachi in his fourth Test but he averaged just 15.58 in the middle to lower order while the 21 wickets he took with his medium pace came at a cost of 50.66 runs per scalp.
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The end of his playing days led to him running the Northants academy and in 2006 he was appointed as the club’s head coach, overseeing their run to Twenty20 Finals Day three years later.
In 2011, they came within a whisper of promotion to Division One of the County Championship but they were pipped by one point by Surrey.
A 33-year association between Northants and Capel came to an end in 2012, after which he had a stint as assistant coach of the England Women’s team.
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