![]() The finals of the 1991 season will be remembered for the number of international cricketers who participated, including Kapil Dev, Chetan Sharma, Ajay Jadeja and Vijay Yadav turning up for Haryana and Bombay cricket team represented by Sanjay Manjrekar, Vinod Kambli, Sachin Tendulkar, Dilip Vengsarkar, Chandrakant Pandit, Salil Ankola and Abey Kuruvilla. Dev took center stage in the semi-final against Bengal, where he led his team to a Mammoth score of 605 runs by scoring 141 as well as taking 5 wickets. In the 1990–91 Ranji season, Haryana rode into the semi-finals on the back of the bowling performance of Chetan Sharma and the batting performance of Amarjit Kaypee. With Dev cementing his place in the Indian national squad, his appearances in domestic matches dwindled. In the pre-quarterfinal match, where he captained Haryana for the first time against Uttar Pradesh, he took a five-wicket haul in the second innings to advance to quarterfinals, where they lost to Karnataka. In the 1979–80 season, Dev showed his batting talent with a maiden century against Delhi when he scored his career-best 193. He played his first Test match in the season against Pakistan. He was included in the North Zone squad for Deodhar Trophy and Wills Trophy for the first time. Dev arrived in the national spotlight with a standout performance in the finals of the Duleep Trophy, taking a first-innings haul of 7/65 in 24 overs. He took 5 catches in the game where Karnataka was defeated by the Rest of India XI. Dev stood out in the Irani Trophy match, scoring 62 runs and coming in at number 8. Poor batting by Haryana in the second innings let Bengal avenge their loss from 2 seasons back by scoring the required 161 runs for the loss of just 4 wickets. In the pre-quarterfinal match, he took a 5-wicket haul in the first innings. He scored 2 half-centuries in the group stage matches. In the 1978–79 season, Haryana had a repeat encounter with Bengal in the pre-quarterfinal match after a lackluster season from Dev (12 wickets from 4 matches). With 23 wickets in 4 matches, he was selected for the Irani Trophy, Duleep Trophy and Wills Trophy matches. With 3 wickets in the second innings, he took his maiden 10-wicket haul in first-class cricket, a feat he would later achieve twice in Test cricket. He began his 1977–78 season claiming 8/38 in the first innings against Services. Haryana lost to Bombay in the quarter-finals. Dev achieved his then best innings haul of 8/20 in just 9 overs in the second innings to skittle Bengal for 58 runs in under 19 overs. While his contribution for the rest of that season was ordinary, Haryana qualified for the pre-quarterfinals. In the 1976–77 season opener against Jammu & Kashmir, he had a match haul of 8/36 in the win. He finished the season with 121 wickets in 30 matches. Kapil Dev made an impressive debut for Haryana in November 1975 against Punjab with a 6-wicket haul, restricting Punjab to just 63 runs and helping Haryana to victory. His paternal family is from Montgomery (now known as Sahiwal) and his mother was born in Pakpattan, Okara. His family moved to Fazilka after the Partition before eventually moving to Chandigarh. Kapildev Ramlal Nikhanj was born in a family from Punjab to his father Ram Lal Nikhanj, a teak merchant and his wife, Rajkumari in Chandigarh on 6 January 1959. Nayudu Lifetime Achievement Award, the highest honour conferred by BCCI on a former player. On 11 March 2010, Dev was inducted into the ICC Cricket Hall of Fame. In 2002, he was named by Wisden as the Indian Cricketer of the Century. In 1982, Dev was awarded the Padma Shri, and in 1991 the Padma Bhushan. Īfter retiring, he coached the Indian national team between September 1999 and September 2000. 175* scored by a batsman batting at number 5 or lower in ODIs. Kapil Dev still holds the record for the highest individual score i.e. He retired in 1994, as the first player to take 200 ODI wickets, and holding the world record for the highest number of wickets taken in Test cricket, a record subsequently broken by Courtney Walsh in 2000. He is still the youngest captain (at the age of 24) to win the World Cup for any team. ![]() Under his captaincy India won their first ever world title in the 1983 Cricket World Cup.ĭev captained the Indian cricket team that won the 1983 Cricket World Cup, becoming the first Indian captain to win the Cricket World Cup. ![]() Dev 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 Test. ![]() One of the greatest all-rounders in the history of cricket, he was a fast-medium bowler and a hard-hitting middle-order batsman. Kapil Dev Ramlal Nikhanj (Pronunciation: born 6 January 1959) is an Indian former cricketer.
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