Kapil Dev's life introduction

Kapil Dev's life introduction [Kapil Dev biography in Hindi] [Ranveer Singh Movie "83" based on India Winning ODI world cup in 1983]

Kapil Dev is one such name in the cricket world, who has a high and respected status in cricket. This great player had worked for the first time to bring the Cricket World Cup to India, which nobody had even thought of at that time. He played India's coach for 10 months between the years 1999 and 2000. This cricketer, known as the Hurricane of Haryana, was never seen running out on the cricket pitch. This player had paid so much attention to his fitness that he was never ruled out of the Test match due to his health. Apart from being a right-handed batsman, Kapil Dev was also a right-arm fast bowler who loved to score fast.

Full Name - Kapil Dev Nikhanj
Birth - 6 January 1959  Chandigarh, India
Height - 1.83 m or 6 fit
Total assets - 191.65 crores (2017)
Father's name - Ramlal Nikhanj
Mother's Name - Rajkumari

First (ODI match) - Pakistan vs India (1978) in Kuta
High Score (ODI Match) - 175 not out (batting)

Bowling - 234 wickets
High Score (Test Match) - 163 runs (Batting)  and    434 wickets (bowling)

Kapil Dev birth and education

These great players were born in Chandigarh, a very famous city in Punjab. He did his elementary education D.A. V. started from school and went to St. Edward's College for graduation. Seeing his interest and talent in sports, he was sent to Desh Prem Azad to learn cricket.

Kapil Dev's family

When India and Pakistan were being separated, at that time their family had moved from Rawalpindi (Pakistan) to Fazilka (India). It was here that his father Ramlal Nikhanj did a wood business. Her mother Rajkumari was a duodenum, who belonged to Pakatan Pakistan. These were seven siblings in total, of which four were sisters, three were brothers, while they were in sixth place. After some time, his parents thought it appropriate to live in the capital of Punjab. He was married to a woman named Romi Bhatia in 1980. After 17 years, a girl was born to him, named Amiya Dev.

Kapil Dev's cricketing career

  

  Kapil Dev's career started in 1975. When he played for Haryana against Punjab, in which Kapil Dev gave Haryana a resounding victory with 6 wickets, Punjab was piled on 63 runs.
    He took 08 wickets and scored 36 runs in a match played against Jammu and Kashmir in 1976 -77 and he scored 07 wickets and 20 runs against Bengal in the same year. His talent started appearing in both these matches.
    After this, he started playing Test matches in 1978. He played his first international Test match against Pakistan. Kapil Dev had scored just 13 runs in this match, although he also took 1 wicket.
    Kapil Dev gave Haryana a resounding victory by playing an unbeaten inning of 193 against Delhi in 1979-1980 with excellent batting. This was the first century of his career. After which it was proved that Kapil Dev can win India not only with bowling but also with batting. Due to both of his talents, he is considered to be the best all-rounder ever.
    On 17 October 1979, he scored 126 in 124 against the West Indies. This is counted as his memorable innings.

Kapil Dev Captaincy period

 At that time, India went to Sri Lanka to play matches in 1982–83. But officially he got a chance to become a captain in the ODI series in West Indies. The West Indies team was very influential at that time, meaning it was impossible to defeat the West Indies team at that time. And with the help of Sunil Gavaskar's brilliant innings, West Indies was defeated by India in a match. In that match, Sunil Gavaskar, who was his fellow player, scored 90 runs. At the same time, Kapil Dev took 2 wickets along with scoring 72 runs. This victory increased the confidence of India to beat the West Indies in the upcoming World Cup. Which was seen in achieving the World Cup?

1983 World Cup

Then came the 1983 World Cup. However, after seeing the performance of the Indian team in the last World Cup, no one expected that India could win the World Cup. When Kapil Dev started playing in the World Cup, his average: 24.94 was like a normal bowler. It was necessary for India to win the match against Zimbabwe to reach the semi-finals. During that match, India was almost moving towards defeat that Kapil Dev took the match due to his superb batting. During this match, he scored 175 runs and washed the Zimbabwean bowling, because he had scored these runs in just 138 balls. In which he planted with the help of 22 boundaries, 16 fours, and 6 sixes. The highest partnership of 126 runs for the 9th wicket was between Kirmani (22 runs) and Kapil Dev, which was broken for 27 years. Not only this, in this match Kapil Dev took 5 wickets of Zimbabwe while bowling brilliantly.

 After this, Kapil Dev received the Mercedes Car Award, this inning was the most memorable and important innings of his life. Which made them great in the eyes of everyone. Thanks to this match, India had found a way to go their way to victory in the 1983 World Cup. Due to the BBC strike during the 1983 World Cup, this match could not be telecast and the cricket lovers could not enjoy this match.

India had to defeat the West Indies in the final to win the 1983 World Cup. India made history by winning this World Cup in England in 1983 under the captaincy of Kapil Dev. It is said that due to this spectacular performance, India also came out as the star of the cricket world. At this time India is seen on a different level. Not only this, but India has also so far won all trophies.

The bad phase of Kapil Dev's career

After that, a series of one-day matches were held in 1984 along with the Test matches with the West Indies. In which India was badly defeated. At the same time, it was the worst time of Kapil Dev's career, due to which the selectors decided to remove him from the post of captaincy and Gavaskar was made the captain again.

After this, Kapil Dev was made the captain in 1987, in which India reached the semi-finals. But India failed to win the World Cup after losing to England and all blamed Dev for this. Once again, he was stripped of his captaincy and given to Gavaskar, this was his last journey to captaincy. After which he never got a chance to become captain. Although the vice-captain was definitely made in 1989.

 Kapil Dev as a Coach

The BCCI appointed him the coach of India but due to some controversy, he resigned only in 10 months. It is said that he was charged with match-fixing after India's 2–0 series loss to Australia. Due to which he resigned from his post to avoid all these baseless allegations.

Kapil Dev awards and achievements

    He was awarded the Arjuna Award given by the Government of India for his good performance in cricket in the 1979–80 season. These awards are given to the sportspersons who have made outstanding contributions in the field of any sport.
    Seeing Kapil Dev's talent and dedication during his 1982 India also gave him the Padma Shri award. Not only this, but he was also given the honor of the 1983 Wisden Cricketer of the Year after a year, which is the basis of his tremendous performance in the World Cup.
    In 1994, he broke Richard Headley's record for most wickets in Test cricket. Not only this, along with 400 wickets in Test cricket, but he is also still the highest player in the world to complete his 4000 runs in Test cricket.
    In 1991, the highest award like Padma Bhushan was given to honor Kapil Dev's contribution and dedication. After this, in 2002, the status of Wisden Indian cricketer was given his status in the cricket world.
    His talent was given honorable status by the 2010 ICC Cricket Hall of Fame award. Three years later, 2013 was given the title of 25 Greatest Global Living Legends in India by NDTV.
    Kapil Dev assumed the post of Lieutenant Colonel in the Indian Territorial Army in 2008 to join the Indian Army. He did this because of respecting the Indian Army more.

 Kapil Dev new movie

The famous director of Indian cinema Kabir Khan has started the work of making the biopic of Kapil Dev. When Kapil Dev was asked which actor should be given your character, he took the name of Ranveer Singh. Along with Phantom Production and Anurag Basu, other people have also put their money on this film. In which Ranveer Singh will be seen acting as Kapil Dev.

Interesting facts of Kapil Dev's life

    Kapil Dev opened two restaurants to do business under the name Captain's Eleven in 2006, one in Chandigarh and the other in Patna, which he himself handles.
    Kapil Dev is a player who has played small roles in more than two films. Those whose names are 'Iqbal', 'Will you marry me' and 'This is Dilalgi'. Not only this but recently there are also reports of a film being made on Kapil Dev.
    Kapil Dev is also very interested in writing books, so he has written three autobiographies so far, namely 'Gods Decree', 'Cricket my style', and 'Straight from my heart'.