Kapil Dev

Indian cricketer · India · On the map · Athletes · Born 1959 · age 67

Kapildev Ramlal Nikhanj is an Indian former cricket team captain. Regarded as 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 is read about 794 times a day, in 33 languages.

A typical day, 30 days to 6 November 2026

The middle day of the days counted, so one week of news cannot move it. The line under it is the last 400 days, one point a day.

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A life in dates

1992“India didn’t play particularly well, but if you ask me I would say my best memory is we beat eventual winners Pakistan in a league match.”In their wordsBeating Pakistan, Kapil Dev's fondest 1992 World Cup memoryRead the whole statement

“The uniforms are my other memory. In the beginning, they looked odd. In the cricket world, we were used to playing in whites.”In their wordsBeating Pakistan, Kapil Dev's fondest 1992 World Cup memoryRead the whole statement

“Back then, people were calling it pyjama cricket, but I think if you look back, you have to change yourself with the time and I think the administrators did the right thing.”In their wordsHis Views on One day cricket.Read the whole statement

1983Wisden Cricketer of the YearAward1959Born6 January 1959

People around Kapil

Close ties

Also in Deutsch

Career 4

ClubYears

Worcestershire County Cricket Club1984-1985

Northamptonshire County Cricket Club1981-1983

India1978-1994

Haryana cricket team1975-1992

Media & music

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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.

In their own words 7

Kapil Dev

7 statements, newest first

When we returned [to] India, we realised how the countrymen had celebrated the win! Everybody was over the moon. Some of them said that the August 15, 1947 came back.
15 August 1947, Own words
Test cricket is for batsmen, not bowlers. Bowlers are like slaves," Kapil Dev.
Quoted in, Own words
If I can do something for the game and the young cricketers through the ICL, I will not budge
, Own words