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Kapil had to hear such slanders four years after the end of his international career. Manoj Prabhakar, a former teammate, hinted that Kapil Dev had told him to play poorly in one of the games against Pakistan. In return, you will receive 25 lakh rupees. Kapil Dev burst into tears in a television interview after hearing such accusations. “I will kill myself if necessary before taking a bribe from anyone,” he said. Who needs money, takes all my money. However, don’t accuse me of that.
The accusation is under investigation. However, Kapil’s involvement was not found. On the contrary, Manoj Prabhakar himself was convicted of keeping in touch with the bajikars.
So of course everything becomes normal. However, the topic rarely appears again in tea chat. For example, the story of India’s first World Cup victory for Kapil Dev is debated for a generation. Newcomers are also fascinated to hear about his fame. How a 24-year-old man turned a completely unknown team into world champion.
No one had high hopes for India at the 1983 World Cup. However, India’s start with a new captain named Kapil Dev came as a surprise. India lost to the West Indies in the first match. He also won the next match against Zimbabwe. However, they lost to Australia by a whopping 162-run margin. Kapil Dev threw the best bowling pin of his career in that game (5/43).
After losing to the West Indies in Game 4, India’s equation for the next round became difficult. Zimbabwe and Australia will have to lose in the last two games. With such a difficult equation in hand, Kapil decided to hit after winning the toss. However, the decision remained a boomerang with the great bowling alley of Zimbabwean bowlers. Kapil’s best hope, Sunil Gavaskar, was dismissed for zero on the second ball of the match. Another Srikanth starter was also fired for 8 runs. When two more hitters came back for 9 runs, India faced catastrophe. At that moment Kapil Deb entered the field with the bat.
A patient hitter was needed to handle the mess after the fifth wicket fell for 18 runs. However, Kapil Dev was aggressive from the beginning of his career. Until then, Kapil, who has a strike rate of 105.18 and is only three half centuries old, was faced with the question of whether he was in a position to handle the situation.
But champions can change themselves depending on the demands of the situation! That’s what young Kapil Dev does. Roger Binny and Madan Lal scored 70 and 72 runs respectively. When Madan Lal was fired as the eighth batter in 140 runs, India feared being out by less than 150 runs. But this is where Kapil Dev made the difference. Goalkeeper Kirmani had a pair of 127 runs.
Kapil Dev’s brilliant innings of 165 against 137 balls, India’s score at the end of 60 overs stood at 26. Kapil Dev became the first Indian batsman to score his first century in international cricket. Wisden’s 100 best innings of the last century, which took place at number 4. The whole team was cheered on by the captain’s century. After winning this match, India also lost to Australia and faced England in the semi-finals.
India’s opponent in that World Cup final was the West Indies. With the West Indies on the brink of a sure victory with a goal of just 183 runs, Kapil Dev gave the Indian team a boost by catching Viv Richards’ catch with great skill by running long from the opposite side. The World Cup comes to India.
There was talk of hitter Kapil Dev’s fame, but his main strength was in bowling. Kapil Dev was born on January 8, 1959 in a middle-class home in Haryana. Kapil has been interested in playing since he was in school and had a chance on the Haryana national cricket team. He took 6 wickets in the first game against Punjab and took 121 wickets in 30 games that season.
He was called up to international cricket for playing well in national cricket. He was named Man of the Series in a six-game series against Pakistan in 1969-70, with Kapil making an outstanding contribution in both games he won. In the Bombay game, he played a 69-run inning with the bat, and in the Madras game, he took 10 wickets and played 84 96-ball innings. He also won the Man of the Series award. Kapil Dev gradually became a reliable all-rounder in the cricket world. But aside from hitting or bowling, Kapil’s captaincy is what helped establish India in world cricket.
Over the centuries, India has gifted high-quality spinners and batsmen, but has been extremely infertile at fast bowling. Kapil Dev was the first Indian to believe that it was possible to be a fast bowler in India. Throughout his career, he has led India’s pace attack. He became the first bowler on the subcontinent to reach the 400 wicket milestone. He is the youngest test bowler to take 100 (21 years 25 days), 200 (24 years) and 300 (28 years 2 days) wickets.
In 2002 Wisden took the initiative to select the best Indian cricketer of the century. There were 16 people on the list. Sunil Gavaskar, Azharuddin, Anil Kumble, Bishan Singh Bedi, Vijay Hazare, and Sachin Tendulkar are big names there. The list is reduced to three. That makes the complexity higher. The selectors were extremely reluctant to get the best of the century from Sachin, Gavaskar and Kapil. But in the end the honor goes to the house of Kapil.
