![]() 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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