Kapil Dev - People Quotes

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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

The uniforms are my other memory. In the beginning, they looked odd. In the cricket world, we were used to playing in whites. Back then, the world was changing, television was changing and you needed people to see more colour. So, I think they did a great thing.

Kapil Dev

Back then, people were calling it pyjama cricket, but I think if you look back, you have to change yourself with the time and I think the administrators did the right thing. Now you look at Cricket World Cup as colourful and that's because of 1992. It represents national pride and everybody has their own colours to identify themselves with and be proud, said Kapil, for whom the 1992 edition was the last World Cup.

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