When Kapil Dev was just 20, he set a new record of scoring 1000 runs and
taking 100 wickets. He made this record within a period of one year and
109 days only. He started playing in the first class cricket in 1975, and
the opportunity to play in a Test match for the first time came in 1978
during Indian team’s tour to Pakistan. Before Sachin Tendulkar he
was the youngest player to hold record run of 126 not out against West Indies
at Delhi in 1979. He had made up the deficiency of a medium pace bowler
in the Indian team. The main credit of India’s victory at the World
Cup, held in England in 1983 also goes to Kapil Dev. He was recently (July,
2002) honoured with the Wisden Indian Cricketer of the Century Award at
an august gathering of cricketers in London.
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