BIOGRAPHY OF KAPILDEV
BIOGRAPHY OF KAPILDEV Kapil Dev , in full Kapil Dev Ramlal Nikhanj , (born January 6, 1959, Chandigarh , India), Indian cricketer and the greatest pace bowler in his country’s history. He is the only cricketer to have scored over 5,000 runs and taken more than 400 wickets in Test (international match) cricket . Dev made his debut in first-class cricket playing for his state, Haryana . He joined the Indian national team for a 1978–79 Test series against Pakistan . Although his tally of seven wickets over three matches in a losing effort was not the most spectacular of debuts, Dev played with great energy, possessing an impressive outswinger delivery and an aggressiveness that Indian cricket had not seen in a long while. In fact, Dev was India’s first genuine fast bowler, and he went on to lead the country’s bowling attack for the next two decades. He ended his Test career with a record 434 wickets in 131 Test matches (a record that was broken in 2000 by Jamaica’s Courtney