Aashish Rakesh Kapoor (pronunciation; born 25 March 1971) is a former Indian cricketer who played in four Test matches and 17 One Day Internationals from 1994 to 2000. A right-arm off spinner and right-handed lower-order batsman, he was a member of the 1996 Cricket World Cup squad.[1][2] He was a part of the Indian squad which won the 1995 Asia Cup.

Aashish Kapoor
Personal information
Full name
Aashish Rakesh Kapoor
Born (1971-03-25) 25 March 1971 (age 53)
Madras, Tamil Nadu, India
BattingRight-handed
BowlingRight-arm off-break
International information
National side
Test debut (cap 201)10 December 1994 v West Indies
Last Test8 December 1996 v South Africa
ODI debut (cap 92)22 February 1995 v Australia
Last ODI14 December 2000 v Zimbabwe
Career statistics
Competition Test ODI FC LA
Matches 4 17 128 93
Runs scored 97 43 3,449 801
Batting average 19.39 7.16 24.63 14.56
100s/50s 0/0 0/0 3/19 0/1
Top score 42 19 181 57
Balls bowled 642 900 26,220 4,781
Wickets 6 8 398 86
Bowling average 42.50 76.50 31.93 35.39
5 wickets in innings 0 0 17 1
10 wickets in match 0 0 4 0
Best bowling 2/19 2/33 7/59 5/38
Catches/stumpings 1/– 1/– 82/– 15/–
Medal record
Men's Cricket
Representing  India
ACC Asia Cup
Winner 1995 United Arab Emirates
Source: ESPNcricinfo, 4 February 2006

Kapoor began his playing career at the St Mary's School and Santhome HSS in Chennai. In the TNCA schools tournament in 1987–88, he scored four hundreds in a row, including a 116 before lunch against Padma Seshadri. This won him the Best Schoolboy Cricketer award from TNCA and later the JC Mukherjee award for the best U-17 cricketer. For South Zone in the Vijay Hazare Trophy, Kapoor scored 103 & 58* against Central Zone and 130 against the North. He then started playing for SPIC in the senior league.[3]

In December 1988 in the Under-19 Ghulam Ahmed trophy (South Zone of the Cooch Behar Trophy), Kapoor scored 304 (420 minutes, 354 balls, 24 fours and a six) against Goa. He added 408 for the first wicket with J. Ramdas. He also coached for Bahrain International Cricket Team (Mens and U19).[4] In 2022, he was named assistant coach of Gujarat Titans in the Indian Premier League.

References

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  1. ^ "Aashish Kapoor Replaces Venkatesh Prasad in All-India Junior Selection Committee". NDTVSports.com. Retrieved 3 April 2020.
  2. ^ "U-19 selection panel: Aashish Kapoor likely to replace Venkatesh Prasad - Times of India". The Times of India. Retrieved 3 April 2020.
  3. ^ Indian Express, 17 December 1988
  4. ^ Sipra, Adnan. "Other Sports: Cricket team face Malaysia". www.gdnonline.com.