 Chapman was voted Uncapped Player of the Season

Despite his improved statistics in 1998, the following year Chapman found himself confined to the second team all season having been plagued with a persistent elbow injury.In 2000, following the arrival of Glenn McGrath he left Worcestershire and moved counties again, this time to the minor county of Lincolnshire under the captaincy of another former Notts player, Mark Fell.Here he found rather more success, taking 4–18 against Berkshire in the first round of the 2002 C&G Trophy (actually played, due to the vagaries of the fixture list, in August 2001), and making his first ever List A half-century in the same competition in 2003 when he hit an unbeaten 53 in a defeat against Nottinghamshire.