Kapil Dev (born 6 January 1959, Chandigarh) was the greatest pace bowler India has produced, and their greatest fast-bowling allrounder. If he had played at any other time - not when Imran Khan, Ian Botham and Richard Hadlee were contemporaries - he would surely have been recognised as the best allrounder in the world. In any case he did enough to be voted India’s Cricketer of the Century during 2002. His greatest feats were to lead India almost jauntily, and by his allround example, to the 1983 World Cup, and to take the world-record aggregate of Test wickets from Hadlee. It was the stamina of the marathon runner that took him finally to 431 wickets and only a yard beyond. He might not have been quite the bowling equal of Imran, Hadlee or Botham at his best, and his strike rate was less than four wickets per Test. But he was still outstanding in his accuracy and ability to swing the ball, usually away from right-handers. And he could hit a ball even more brilliantly than he bowled it, with uncomplicated flair.
The ICC cricket World Cup 1983 held in England in June 1983 can be said to be a golden era in history of Indian cricket. India, quoted at 1 to 66 before world cup began, won the most prestigious cricket cup defeating the then world champions, West Indies, in the finals held on June25, 1983 at Lord’s by 43 runs. Though India batting first was all out for an average score of 183, India knocked out the champions for just 140 odd runs. It was the all round performance of Mohindar Amarnath and Indian captain, Kapil Dev which led India India to surprise victory in the finals.
The ICC cricket World Cup 1983 held in England in June 1983 can be said to be a golden era in history of Indian cricket. India, quoted at 1 to 66 before world cup began, won the most prestigious cricket cup defeating the then world champions, West Indies, in the finals held on June25, 1983 at Lord’s by 43 runs. Though India batting first was all out for an average score of 183, India knocked out the champions for just 140 odd runs. It was the all round performance of Mohindar Amarnath and Indian captain, Kapil Dev which led India India to surprise victory in the finals.
This world cup saw the emergence of all time great players like Sunil Gavaskar, K Srikkanth, RMH Binny, Ravi Shastri and Syed Kirmani (Ind), Javed Miandad and Abdul Qadir (Pak), Alan Border (Aus) and R Hadlee (NZ). A total of 8 teams participated in the world cup with Zimbabwe replacing Canada.
The world cup started with two fine surprises with India beating West Indies and Zimbabwe beating Australia in the group stages. While India won 6 out of its 8 group matches while lost one each to Australia and West Indies. As against the last two world cups the sides played twice with each other in the group stages in this world cup. Also each of the eight sides registered at least single victory. Unexpectedly Binny (Ind) and De Mel (SL) came out as leading wicket takers. The aggregate attendance was 232081 while gate receipts amounted to 1195712Pounds
(celeb of world cup final)
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