Stating that he felt "ashamed" by the Indian cricket team's dismal performance against Australia in the ongoing Test series, former India captain Kapil Dev said every aspect of the game has gone wrong for the Indians.
Former India captain Kapil Dev chided Unmukt Chand for skipping practice to attend a youth summit and advised him to focus on the game. The Under-19 World Cup-winning captain attended India Today's 'Youth Summit' to speak on cricket when he is supposed to play a match, which will also feature Sachin Tendulkar, on Saturday.
'I would love to go to the place where was I born and grew up in. The nearest I came to visiting Junagarh was when I played the Dilip Sardesai benefit game in Ahmedabad.'
Out of six finals played, India have won three World titles, including two ODI World Cups (1983 and 2011) and one T20 World Cup in 2007.
BCCI secretary Niranjan Shah said the Board could not accept the former all-rounder as head of both NCA and ICL.
Former India captain Kapil Dev says the difference between England and India in the ongoing Test series is the all-rounders former possess.
Three days after the June 22 felicitation in New Delhi by BCCI, Kapil Dev and rest of India's 1983 World Cup winning team would revisit Lord's, where they had scripted the most memorable chapter in the history of Indian cricket 25 years ago.
India's 1983 World Cup winning skipper Kapil Dev feels the growing self belief of the Indian cricket team that they can win regularly outside the subcontinent could hold them in good stead to defend the 2015 World Cup title in Australia and New Zealand.
At 37, Sachin Tendulkar is definitely at the twilight of his career but former India captain Kapil Dev thinks otherwise. The 1983 World Cup-winning captain feels the champion batsman will go on to play another World Cup unless India lays its hands on next year's quadrennial event.
From Rajkot's maidans to cricket's grandest arenas, Cheteshwar Pujara carved a niche as the bedrock of India's Test side. He is one of only 14 Indians to feature in more than 100 Tests, and his innings often defined India's most memorable triumphs.
Jasprit Bumrah is also the second fastest Indian along with Ravindra Jadeja to complete 200 wickets in Test cricket.
Former India Kapil Dev took a dig at the Cricket Board on Thursday for not giving the triumphant Indian squad more time to unwind after their fabulous World Cup triumph on April 2 and for paying much more money to represent their IPL franchises than the country.
A new housing estate is luring buyers with a 'Tendulkar Drive', 'Kohli Crescent' and 'Dev Terrace'.
"I am working for the betterment of my game. For me, cricket everywhere is same," said Kapil.
The legendary all-rounder said although there were some good individual performances last year, overall the Indian team could have done better.
Former captain Kapil Dev on Monday, came down heavily on the BCCI for sacking the national team bowling coach Venkatesh Prasad and fielding coach Robin Singh without looking into the good work they had done for the team.
Anil Kumble arrived in Lucknow on Sunday for the 'Pran Prathishta' ceremony
'I want to play more cricket. Where is the place? Obviously not in the Indian dressing room but from somewhere else. I want to be honest with the game.'
With the emergence of their battery of fast bowlers, India have turned the tide at Lord's with two of their victories coming from their last three Tests -- in 2014 and 2021.
Former skipper Kapil Dev has criticised the Indian players for surrendering their No. 1 world Test rankings to England, saying the visitors were just not prepared to deal with the English attack.
While Kapil scripted the best bowling figures of 5/43 against Australia at Trent Bridge in in 1983, Shami's fifer in Mohali on Friday, was the third-best bowling effort against the Aussies.
India's 1983 World Cup-winning captain Kapil Dev on Thursday expressed anguish over the latest spot-fixing scandal and said he feels for the passionate fans of Pakistan.
Indian Cricket League chief Kapil Dev said there was hardly meeting with the BCCI as they were told to shut down the ICL and they only talks would be held.
The former India captain and coach called upon well-off cricketers to gift the money to others in need.
New Zealand skipper Daniel Vettori on Wednesday joined the likes of Kapil Dev, Richard Hadlee and Shane Warne when he became only the eighth all-rounder in Test cricket's history to collect 3,000 runs and bag 300 wickets.
Former India captain Kapil Dev hinted that the fourth estate should not cover the Board of Control for Cricket in India's multi-million dollar venture if curbs on accreditation norms for the media are not lifted.
According to reports, the Formula Regional Championship is believed to be a bridge between F4 and F3.
Three Indian cricketing legends -- Kapil Dev, Sunil Gavaskar and Bishan Singh Bedi -- figured among the 55 former players named on Friday in the ICC's inaugural Hall of Fame list as part of its centenary celebrations. Launching the ICC Cricket Hall of Fame in Sydney, Chief Executive Haroon Lorgat said the initiative, in association with Federation of International Cricketers' Association (FICA), would provide the chance for the game to recognise its greatest achievers.
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'Kuldeep is perhaps one of the best in the world at the moment. He should have been promoted to Grade A.'
Former pace ace Kapil Dev says there are enough fast bowlers to win India a match if the top guys are unavailable.
Mahendra Singh Dhoni might have come under heavy criticism for his captaincy during the just-concluded home Test series against England but former skipper Kapil Dev backed him as the best bet to lead India in limited-overs cricket.
On the 30th year of India's maiden World Cup triumph, the captain of the team Kapil Dev feels that particular evening at Lord's "changed the dimension" of the game in the country.
Virat Kohli and Ravindra Jadeja are set for important milestones during the coming series against Bangladesh.
Rajneesh Gupta gives us all the numbers that matter from Day 1 of the fourth Test between England and India at The Oval, on Thursday, September 2, 2021.
'A great player like him shouldn't take so much time to get back in form. He has to fight with himself and get things in order.'
The 1983 World Cup-winning captain was also pleased with Mahendra Singh Dhoni's captaincy in the ODI tri-series and believes he has a great future ahead of him.
