Kapil Dev - India Quotes

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India didn't play particularly well, but if you ask me I would say my best memory is we beat eventual winners Pakistan in a league match. It's not a positive memory for me, but to say we beat the team which held the trophy makes me feel better.

Kapil Dev

I don't tell myself I am a hero. People do look up to performers and think of them as heroes... Hero worship in India is too big. It is both right and wrong. It is fair to respect people who have done things that others haven't but it is not right to traet them as gods.

Kapil Dev

When we returned [to] India, we realised how the countrymen had celebrated the win! Everybody was over the moon. Some of them said that the August 15, 1947 came back.

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