Sports News Desk!!! Kapil Dev (English: Kapil Dev, born January 6, 1959) is the captain of India’s first Cricket World Cup winning team and the most successful all-rounder. Kapil Dev’s game and his statistics are proof of this. This famous Indian cricket player was born in Haryana to a timber merchant. Kapil Dev entered first-class cricket in 1975. He was elected ‘Indian Cricketer of the Century’ by Wisden in 2002. He was also the coach of the Indian cricket team for 10 months.
most successful all-rounder
He played his first test match in Pakistan in 1978. Kapil Dev was expert in giving the right direction to the ball. He had removed the lack of medium pace bowling in the Indian cricket team to a great extent. Kapil became the world’s most successful all-rounder with his impressive medium-pace bowling and batting. Kapil Dev is the second all-rounder in the world after England cricket player Ian Botham, who has achieved double success by taking 300 wickets and scoring more than 3000 runs in 83 matches.
record
Kapil Dev has set a new record of scoring a thousand and taking 100 wickets at the age of 20. This record was made in only one year and 109 days.
world champion india
Kapil Dev has the credit for making the Indian cricket team the world champion in the One Day International cricket series in 1983. The historic innings of 175 runs scored by him in the World Cup was engraved in golden letters in the cricket world.
autobiography
In his autobiography ‘By God’s Decree’, he has clearly written about Indian cricket and his life that I was born in the family of a timber merchant. I didn’t play cricket until I was 13 years old. This happened at a time when there was a shortage of one player in the Sector 16 team and I was included. It was just an opportunity. His idea is to play to win. Attack, score runs and take wickets. Never stop trying.
