Full Name

Zachariah John Chappell

Born

August 21, 1996, Grantham, Lincolnshire

Age

28y 349d

Batting Style

Right hand Bat

Bowling Style

Right arm Fast medium

Playing Role

Bowler

Education

Stamford School

Zak Chappell moved to Derbyshire ahead of the 2023 season looking to reestablish himself after four seasons on the fringes at Nottinghamshire, with head coach Mickey Arthur describing the move as "an easy sell", adding: "I want a guy who is coming here and wants to use us to play for England." His returns in red-ball cricket were solid rather than spectacular, but an impressive Blast - 26 wickets at 18.03 - saw him drafted in by Oval Invincibles on their way to a maiden men's Hundred title.

Chappell had been on England's radar from an early age and followed the route trod by Stuart Broad a decade or so earlier when he left Leicestershire for Nottinghamshire. But Chappell's time at Trent Bridge saw him make 23 appearances and take 39 wickets across formats, interspersed with a couple of loan spells at Gloucestershire, as he struggled to make an impact in the first team.

At the age of 19, Chappell wrote his name in Leicestershire's records despite falling four runs short of a century on his first-class debut against Derbyshire. Chappell scored 96 from 122 balls, the highest-ever innings by a Leicestershire No. 10, before Mark Footitt yorked him. But it was as a tall seam bowler that he most attracted attention and in his farewell season he underlined his potential with a career-best 6 for 33 against Northamptonshire. His cricket upbringing was at Stamford School under the former Kent and England seamer Dean Headley. England thought highly enough of him to put him on a Pace Bowling programme in the 2017-18 winter even though his Championship season had brought only nine wickets at 57.11; his was very much a story of perceived potential.

After an impressive showing on the England Lions tour to India at the start of 2019, the rest of the year could hardly have gone worse. Chappell failed to take a wicket in his six first-team appearances for Nottinghamshire, while a stint at Gloucestershire yielded a solitary scalp in a T20. His opportunities were limited by injury, and he missed out on selection in the inaugural Hundred draft.
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Zak Chappell Career Stats

Bowling

FormatMatInnsBallsRunsWktsBBIBBMAveEconSR4w5w10w
FC63100892753431506/447/11435.623.5959.5940
List A313114661447474/394/3930.785.9231.1100
T20s686712982050935/235/2322.049.4713.9210

Batting & Fielding

FormatMatInnsNORunsHSAveBFSR100s50s4s6sCtSt
FC63921216209620.25282757.300720720150
List A31251140394*28.7847584.840243660
T20s68361827334*15.16209130.62002011150

Zak Chappell T20 Stats

Bowling

TournamentTeamsMatInnsBallsRunsWktsBBIBBMAveEconSR4w5w10w
Vitality Blast4 teams59581165184680 4/41 4/4123.079.5014.5100
Men's 100OI-M4455976 4/33 4/3316.1610.589.1100

Batting & Fielding

TournamentTeamsMatInnsNORunsHSAveBFSR100s50s4s6sCtSt
Vitality Blast4 teams59331726934*16.81201133.83002011150
Men's 100OI-M410000.0010.00000000

Recent Matches of Zak Chappell

MatchBatBowlDateGroundFormat
Derbyshire vs Northants32 & 221/6229-Jul-2025NorthamptonFC
Derbyshire vs Leics0 & 502/4922-Jul-2025DerbyFC
Derbyshire vs Bears230/5918-Jul-2025DerbyT20
Derbyshire vs Yorkshire--2/3613-Jul-2025LeedsT20
Derbyshire vs Northants0*0/4511-Jul-2025NorthamptonT20

Photos of Zak Chappell

Zak Chappell finished with a four-for, his best returns in T20 cricket
Zak Chappell claimed a four-wicket haul
Zak Chappell looks on
Zak Chappell was fired up
Zak Chappell picked up three wickets
Zak Chappell celebrates his maiden five-wicket haul