I think kapil dev is an over hyped cricketer who has been hyped up by indian media.Any body who has followed cricket will acknowledge that Kapil dev was very very good as an allrounder when he started....but slwoly slowly he became a pathetic batsman....his bowling too degraded...He just kept on playing to break hadlees record...and his bowling average and strike rate is the worst for people who have taken more than 400 wickets...his batting average in tests is also ok..tat of 31...Today if u see players like jaques kallis have a test average of 55 with bat and close to 10000 runs and also 200 wickets at an aaverage of 29...but no body praises suck cricketers...because they are silent...performing..kapil was a good indian cricketer....not a great..sorry !! and to think that those days test cricket and one days were without the power hitters and bowling wickets...his bowling stats had 2 be much better...Had he retired gracefuly 4 years before he actualy did his records would have been much better..because last 3 to 4 years of his carrer he used 2 bowl at 120km..and people like greatbatch used 2 bl;ast him... Regarding ICL tell me guys who wants 2 see a retired stephen flemin or lara or mcgrath ...playing along side dinesh mongia in similar coloured clothing>>.i would love to see lara in a red west indies outfit playing for west indies against a yellow jersey mcgrath playing for australia....Tats a contest....all this is fake....!! the real thing is bcci....although they are m
