Kapil Dev Ramlal Nikhanj, the former Indian cricketer, was one of the great all-rounders. He was born in 1959 at Chandigarh and served the Indian cricket team as a captain. Under his captaincy, India won their first world cup in 1983.
He started his first test match against Pakistan in 1978 at Faisalabad. During his third test match, he scored a quick half-century playing only 33 balls. He began his ODI career in 1978 in a match against Pakistan at Quetta. In that match, he scored 13 runs and got 1 wicket giving 27 runs.
After winning the world cup, India had to face some awful defeats due to which Kapil was removed from captaincy, and Sunil Gavaskar became the captain of India in 1984 again. In the March 1985, Kapil got his captaincy back and led his team to the world cup 1987. In the semi-final match, India lost to Australia and in this way his captaincy came to an end.
He has played a total 131 test and 225 one-day matches in his career. His highest scores are 163 and 175 in the test and one-day matches respectively. He has 8 test centuries and 1 one-day centuries. In test, his total run is 5248. For one-day, it is 3783. As a bowler, he took 434 test wickets and 253 ODI wickets. He got 10 and 5 wickets 2 and 23 times respectively in test match and one time in the ODI match.
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