The legendary Indian cricketer KapilĀ Dev celebrates his sixty fifth birthday at this time (January 6). With 687 wickets and over 9000 worldwide runs, the 1983 World Cup-winning captain is broadly considered theĀ greatest pacer or tempo all-rounder India produced so far.
Kapil made his worldwide debut in 1978 and shortly emerged as among the best tempo all-rounders on the planet. He performed 131 Tests and 225 ODI matches until his retirement in 1994.
Leading the Indian group to glory within the 1983 World Cup wasĀ arguably Kapil’s greatest achievement throughout his scintillating profession however, some distinctive however unbelievable information actually spotlightĀ his contribution to world cricket. So, on his sixty fifth birthday, let’s look into 5 distinctive information by the legend.
1. Only cricketer to attain 5000+ runs and to take 400+ Test wickets
Kapil dominated the world cricket when followers witnessed the greatness of tempo all-roundersĀ Imran Khan, Ian Botham and Richard Hadlee. Kapil surpassed all these three cricketers in Test cricket information with 434 wickets and 5248 wickets in 131 matches with eight lots of.
He stays the one cricketer to take 400-plus wickets and to attain 5000-plus runs in Test cricket historical past so far which makes him one of many best all-rounders in red-ball cricket.Ā
2. Best bowling figures by Test captain
Kapil additionally holds a singular report for producing the most effective bowling figures in an innings in Test cricket historical past.Ā
In November 1983, he took 9 wickets within the second innings towards West Indies at Ahmedabad’sĀ Gujarat Stadium breaking Pakistan captain Imran Khan’s eight-wicket in an innings report set in 1982. Notably, Kapil additionally took eight wickets in an innings towards Australia in 1985 to steer by instance.
3.Ā 250 runs and 20 wickets in TestĀ sequence
Only two Indian cricketers have scored 250-plus runs and have taken 20-plus wickets in a Test sequence to date and Kapil did this two instances.
- Kapil Dev vs Pakistan in 1979/80 – 278 runs & 32 wickets in 6 matches
- Kapil Dev vs England inĀ 1981/82 – 318 runs & 22 wickets in 6 matches
- Ravichandran Ashwin vs England in 2016 – 306 runs & 28 wickets in 5 matches
4. Highest partnership in ODIs
In batting, Kapil famously smashed 175* runs off simply 138 balls towards Zimbabwe within the 1983 World Cup, which was the very best particular person ODI rating on the time and has been damaged by many. But Kapil’s unbeaten 126-run stand with Syed Kirmani stays the very best partnership by an Indian pair for the ninth wicket in ODI historical past and second-highest in world cricket.
5. First to 200 ODI wickets
Kapil additionally made an identical influence in ODIs by changing into the first-ever cricketer to bag 200 ODI wickets. Kapil’s 175* towards Zimbabwe was the very best rating by no.5Ā scored by a batterĀ at quantity 5 or decrease in ODIs till Glenn Maxwell broke the report by smashing double ton within the ICC World Cup 2023.Ā
