Kapil Dev Ramlal Nikhanj is a former Indian cricketer. He was a fast bowler and a hard hitting middle order batsman. He captained the Indian cricket team that won the 1983 Cricket World Cup. In 2002, he was named by Wisden as the Indian Cricketer of the Century. In 2010, Dev was inducted into the ICC Cricket Hall of Fame.
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Kapil Dev Ramlal Nikhanj is a former Indian cricketer. He was a fast bowler and a hard hitting middle order batsman. He captained the Indian cricket team that won the 1983 Cricket World Cup. He retired in 1994, holding the world record for the greatest number of wickets taken in Test cricket, a record subsequently broken by Courtney Walsh in 2000. He is the first player to take 200 ODI wickets. Dev is regarded as one of the greatest all-rounders to play the game. He played his first Test match in the 1979–80 season against Pakistan. In 2002, he was named by Wisden as the Indian Cricketer of the Century. In 2010, Dev was inducted into the ICC Cricket Hall of Fame. His father was a prominent timber merchant and to his mother, Raj Kumari Ram Lal NikhanJ in Chandigarh on 6 January 1959. His mother was born in Pakpattan, in the town of the Sufi saint Baba Farid. They lived in Shah Yakka which is now in Okara district, Pakistan. His four sisters were born there before partition and his two brothers in Fazilka, where they moved after partition. Dev was a student at D. A. V. School and joined Desh Prem Azad in 1971. He made an impressive debut for Haryana in November 1975 against Punjab with a 06 wicket haul, restricting Punjab to just 63 runs.
He finished the season with 121 wickets in 30 matches. In the 1976–77 season opener against Jammu & Kashmir, he had a match haul of 836 in the win. Dev achieved his then best innings haul of 820 in just 9 overs in the second innings to skittle Bengal for 58 runs in under 19 overs. In 1990–91 Ranji season, he led his team into the semi-final against Bengal, where he took his centre stage performance to lead his team to a quarter-final win. He also played in the final of the Duleep Trophy, taking a first-innings haul of 765 in 24 overs. He scored his maiden century against Delhi in the first season of his career in 1979-80 season. In 2000, he captained India for the first time against Uttar Pradesh. He took 5 catches in the game where Karnataka was defeated by the Rest of India XI. He has been named in Wisden’s list of the top 100 cricketers of the 20th century, along with Sachin Tendulkar, Sachin Baby, Mohammad Azharuddin, Mohammad Kaushal, Mohammad Aamer and Ravi Shastri. He won the ODI World Cup with India in 1983, and the T20 World Cup in 1990-91, and was named in the Indian Cricket Team of the century in 2000-01. Dev has a son and a daughter, Ravi, with whom he has two children.
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