Kapil Dev - Team 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.

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... that if you want to do something, achieve something, you can't be thinking all the time of what you don't have... I don't have an opening batsman, I don't have a fast bowler, I don't have an all-rounder... You think like this and you are telling yourself you can't win. You have to see what you have, and then plan how to use it the best way you can, that is how to win games. Not this business of 'we don't have an all-rounder so we are not a balanced team!

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We had won many trophies before and after that like the team under MSD are winning now. But the joy of that day is something different. May be because it was the first time we had won the coveted World Cup. Each year for these 30 years, I start receiving phone calls and texts from the night of June 24 the way I receive the same for my birthday!

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Look, if you take the best batting team in the world, they too will have their weaknesses — otherwise, wouldn't they win all the time? You mention any team to me, and I will pick out for you a dozen weaknesses. But that is not the point — these things, like fielding, running between wickets, all these are technical things, they can be learnt and practised.

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