Kapil's overall record in England and SA hardly gives any context.
He went in Eng first time in 1979 as a greenhorn, barely 20. He lead a non existent attack, did fairly well(19 wickets @ 30).
He had a fantastic trip in 1982,was the best batsman in the team and averaged 74 with the bat(though we are talking about his bowling here). Also took a 8-wicket haul in Lords.
He lead the team to a series victory in 1986 and was the man of the match in 1st test.
In 1990, he was poor with the ball, but shone with the bat again, averaging 55 with the bat.
In SA, he only toured in 1992 at the end of his career. Was largely meh with the ball, but was the highest run scorer from the visiting team.
Pakistan and NZ are the 2 countries which were holes in his record and it is fair to hold it against him.
even in Pakistan , you can say the pitches that were prepared were literal bowling hell.
in 78 series where he is pretty much a debutant , a grand total of 80 wickets fell for 3892 runs , a 48 wicket gap between each , which is bonkers, combining with him being a literal debutant , the series is just a horrible thrashing for India and Dev , chandrasekhar averaged 48 and Bedi 74 , Imran was at 31 , funnily Chandra was the fourth best bowler and his average is 48 , third best is at 39.
in 82 series , there were 6 matches and
collective 133 wickets fell for 5775 runs , a 43.4 runs gap each , still high as hell but Kapil did well here , he bowled 40 over in one match and took 7/220 carrying the entire bowling lineup , and a 8/85 where he bamboozled Pakistan , He was the second best bowler after imran here , no one here except immy averaged below 32 btw so another display of these wickets.
84 series is just...bad? 2 matches played , both draws because of how ridiculous the wickets were , 2000+ runs in two games and only 41 wickets fell , 52 runs between each wicket and Kapil for some reason only bowled 35 overs
89 series is also pretty bat dominate Ball as a series but in same vein as 82 series , Kapil was the four highest wicket taker here next , here Wasim bowled 204.4 overs , took 18 wickets at 30.61 , Manoj Prabhakar bowled 181.2 overs and took 16 wickets at 33.88 , Imran bowled 185.3 overs and took 13 wickets at 38.77 and Kapil bowled 168.4 overs , took 12 wickets at 31.50 , Abdul Qadir bowled 109 overs , took 6 wickets at 57.6.
Kapil and wasim were top 2 in average ( 31.5 and 30.6 lol ) followed by Prabhakar and Imran ( 33.88 and 38.77 lol ) , waqar was there but bowled too less ( averaged 38.5 if wondering).
all in all , perfectly explain Lillee's stats there , PCB probably pulled the same bullshit with Liller , literally no stand out bowler only performance except 82 Imran