http://debianws.lexgopc.com/wiki143/index.php?action=history&feed=atom&title=Percy_ChapmanPercy Chapman - Revision history2026-10-26T03:16:36ZRevision history for this page on the wikiMediaWiki 1.43.1http://debianws.lexgopc.com/wiki143/index.php?title=Percy_Chapman&diff=5635318&oldid=previmported>Cloptonson: /* Later struggle */ death location as per infobox2025-11-28T18:55:06Z<p><span class="autocomment">Later struggle: </span> death location as per infobox</p>
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<tr><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>Already chosen as tour captain before the final 1930 Ashes Test,<ref>Lemmon, p. 116.</ref> Chapman led an MCC team to a 1–0 series defeat in South Africa the following winter. Several first-choice players were not selected and the team suffered from injuries and illness.<ref name=SA>{{Cite web| url = http://www.espncricinfo.com/ci/content/story/151750.html| title = M.C.C. team in South Africa, 1930–31| work = Wisden Cricketers' Almanack | year = 1932 | publisher = John Wisden & Co | location = London |access-date =17 February 2012}}</ref> Chapman was popular with the crowds but made a poor start to the tour with the bat until he scored more substantially in the lead-up to the Test series.<ref name=L117>Lemmon, p. 117.</ref> England lost the opening match of the series by 28 runs and the other four were drawn. Needing to win the final match to level the series, England were frustrated when the start of the match was delayed. Chapman won the toss and chose to bowl on a damp pitch which would have favoured his bowlers. However, the umpires discovered the [[Bail (cricket)|bails]] were the wrong size and would not start the game until new ones could be made; in the 20 minutes which were lost, the pitch dried out and England lost much of the advantage of bowling first.<ref name=SA/><ref>Lemmon, p. 118.</ref> Chapman made an official protest before leading his team onto the field.<ref>Lemmon, p. 119.</ref> In the series, he scored 75 runs at 10.71,<ref name=tbat/> and 471 runs at 27.70 in all first-class games.<ref name=fcbatting/> ''Wisden'' observed that "without finding his full powers as a punishing hitter, Chapman occasionally batted well".<ref name=SA/> Socially, the tour was more successful. Chapman was accompanied by his wife, and his parents joined the tour for a time. He took part in many social events and visited several whiskey firms which were associated with his employers in England.<ref name=L117/></div></td><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>Already chosen as tour captain before the final 1930 Ashes Test,<ref>Lemmon, p. 116.</ref> Chapman led an MCC team to a 1–0 series defeat in South Africa the following winter. Several first-choice players were not selected and the team suffered from injuries and illness.<ref name=SA>{{Cite web| url = http://www.espncricinfo.com/ci/content/story/151750.html| title = M.C.C. team in South Africa, 1930–31| work = Wisden Cricketers' Almanack | year = 1932 | publisher = John Wisden & Co | location = London |access-date =17 February 2012}}</ref> Chapman was popular with the crowds but made a poor start to the tour with the bat until he scored more substantially in the lead-up to the Test series.<ref name=L117>Lemmon, p. 117.</ref> England lost the opening match of the series by 28 runs and the other four were drawn. Needing to win the final match to level the series, England were frustrated when the start of the match was delayed. Chapman won the toss and chose to bowl on a damp pitch which would have favoured his bowlers. However, the umpires discovered the [[Bail (cricket)|bails]] were the wrong size and would not start the game until new ones could be made; in the 20 minutes which were lost, the pitch dried out and England lost much of the advantage of bowling first.<ref name=SA/><ref>Lemmon, p. 118.</ref> Chapman made an official protest before leading his team onto the field.<ref>Lemmon, p. 119.</ref> In the series, he scored 75 runs at 10.71,<ref name=tbat/> and 471 runs at 27.70 in all first-class games.<ref name=fcbatting/> ''Wisden'' observed that "without finding his full powers as a punishing hitter, Chapman occasionally batted well".<ref name=SA/> Socially, the tour was more successful. Chapman was accompanied by his wife, and his parents joined the tour for a time. He took part in many social events and visited several whiskey firms which were associated with his employers in England.<ref name=L117/></div></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="−"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #ffe49c; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>Chapman played no further Test cricket; in 26 Tests, he scored 925 runs at an average of 28.90 and held 32 catches.<ref name=Cricinfo>{{Cite web| url = http://www.espncricinfo.com/england/content/player/10705.html| title = Percy Chapman (ESPNCricinfo profile)| publisher = ESPNCricifno | access-date =17 February 2012}}</ref> He captained England in 17 matches, winning nine and losing two with the others drawn.<ref name=ODNB/> Under him the team achieved seven consecutive victories, equalling the English record, which was not surpassed until 2004.<ref name="ESPNCricinfo">{{Cite web| url = http://stats.espncricinfo.com/ci/content/records/105118.html | title = Test Matches: Team Records: Most consecutive wins| publisher = ESPNCricinfo| access-date =27 December 2011}}</ref><ref name="John Wisden & Co">{{Cite book| chapter-url = http://www.espncricinfo.com/ci/content/story/237247.html| chapter = South Africa v England (First Test) | title = Wisden Cricketers' Almanack <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;"> | work = Cricinfo </del>| year = 2005 | publisher = John Wisden & Co | location = London |access-date =27 December 2011|isbn= 0-947766-89-8}}</ref> His nine victories came in his first nine games as captain.{{#tag:ref|The team won seven Tests in succession between 1927 and 1928. Chapman won his first nine games as captain, but others captained England when he did not play within this sequence.<ref name="ESPNCricinfo"/><ref name="capwins"/>|group=notes}}<ref name="capwins">{{Cite web| url = http://www.espncricinfo.com/ci/content/story/378493.html| title = Most consecutive wins and defeats for a new captain| work = Cricinfo| publisher = ESPNCricinfo| access-date =17 February 2012}}</ref></div></td><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="+"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>Chapman played no further Test cricket; in 26 Tests, he scored 925 runs at an average of 28.90 and held 32 catches.<ref name=Cricinfo>{{Cite web| url = http://www.espncricinfo.com/england/content/player/10705.html| title = Percy Chapman (ESPNCricinfo profile)| publisher = ESPNCricifno | access-date =17 February 2012}}</ref> He captained England in 17 matches, winning nine and losing two with the others drawn.<ref name=ODNB/> Under him the team achieved seven consecutive victories, equalling the English record, which was not surpassed until 2004.<ref name="ESPNCricinfo">{{Cite web| url = http://stats.espncricinfo.com/ci/content/records/105118.html | title = Test Matches: Team Records: Most consecutive wins| publisher = ESPNCricinfo| access-date =27 December 2011}}</ref><ref name="John Wisden & Co">{{Cite book| chapter-url = http://www.espncricinfo.com/ci/content/story/237247.html| chapter = South Africa v England (First Test) | title = Wisden Cricketers' Almanack | year = 2005 | publisher = John Wisden & Co | location = London |access-date =27 December 2011|isbn= 0-947766-89-8}}</ref> His nine victories came in his first nine games as captain.{{#tag:ref|The team won seven Tests in succession between 1927 and 1928. Chapman won his first nine games as captain, but others captained England when he did not play within this sequence.<ref name="ESPNCricinfo"/><ref name="capwins"/>|group=notes}}<ref name="capwins">{{Cite web| url = http://www.espncricinfo.com/ci/content/story/378493.html| title = Most consecutive wins and defeats for a new captain| work = Cricinfo| publisher = ESPNCricinfo| access-date =17 February 2012}}</ref></div></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="−"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #ffe49c; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>In September 1961, Chapman fractured his knee when he fell at his home. He was taken to hospital for an operation but died on 16 September 1961. The newspapers reported that he had been ill for a long time; his former wife later commented that "he must have died a very sad man".<ref>Lemmon, pp. 144–45.</ref> Tributes focused on his successes as a cricketer and appealing personality.<ref>Lemmon, p. 145.</ref> Summing up Chapman's life, Gibson writes: "But just as a good end can redeem a sad life, so a good life can redeem a sad end, and he had known his hours, his years of glory."<ref name=G148/> Swanton concluded his obituary of Chapman in 1961: "The elderly and the middle-aged will recall him rather in his handsome sunlit youth, the epitome of all that was gay and fine in the game of cricket."<ref name=Sw138/></div></td><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="+"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>In September 1961, Chapman fractured his knee when he fell at his home. He was taken to hospital <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">at [[Alton, Hampshire]], </ins>for an operation but died on 16 September 1961. The newspapers reported that he had been ill for a long time; his former wife later commented that "he must have died a very sad man".<ref>Lemmon, pp. 144–45.</ref> Tributes focused on his successes as a cricketer and appealing personality.<ref>Lemmon, p. 145.</ref> Summing up Chapman's life, Gibson writes: "But just as a good end can redeem a sad life, so a good life can redeem a sad end, and he had known his hours, his years of glory."<ref name=G148/> Swanton concluded his obituary of Chapman in 1961: "The elderly and the middle-aged will recall him rather in his handsome sunlit youth, the epitome of all that was gay and fine in the game of cricket."<ref name=Sw138/></div></td></tr>
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