Kapil Dev
Kapil Dev is a former Indian cricket player. He was an all rounder, a right hand batsman and right arm fast bowler. He captained the Indian cricket team when it won the 1983 World Cup. [1]
Kapil Dev Ramlal Nikhanj was born on 6 January 1959 in Chandigarh, Punjab, India. As a technical bowler, he was known as the "Haryana hurricane". He got a joint man of the match with the Australian cricketer Dean Jones.
Statistics
Kapil Dev was the captain who led the Indian team to its first World Cup win in 1983. He got 434 wickets and scored 5248 runs with 8 centuries and 27 fifties in test cricket. He got 253 wickets and 3783 runs in ODIs. He is the only player in the history of cricket to have taken more than 400 wickets (434 wickets) and scored more than 5,000 runs in Tests.[2][3][4][5][6]
Kapil Dev Media
Dev's career performance graph.
Dev with the Indian President Zail Singh after the team's return to India post winning the World Cup. They are holding the Cricket World Cup Trophy.
Dev with Indian PM Narendra Modi, Australian PM Tony Abbott, Sunil Gavaskar and VVS Laxman along with the Cricket World Cup Trophy and Border–Gavaskar Trophy at the Melbourne Cricket Ground in 2014.
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References
- ↑ "1983 World Cup Finals Scorecard – India V/s West Indies". Cricinfo. Retrieved 17 March 2007.
- ↑ "Kapil Dev". Cricinfo.
- ↑ "Loss and longing in Bombay". Cricinfo. 1 May 2002. Retrieved 7 April 2008.
- ↑ "Scorecard – Ranji Trophy, 1990/91, Final, Bombay v Haryana". 7 May 1991. Archived from the original on 10 August 2019. Retrieved 7 April 2008.
- ↑ "Scorecard – India V/s Australia, 11th Match – 1983 Cricket World Cup". Cricinfo. Retrieved 17 March 2007.[dead link]
- ↑ "Kapil's 'Devils' steal Lloyd's thunder". Archived from the original on 4 August 2016. Retrieved 17 March 2007.