He began his 1977–78 season claiming 8/38 in the first innings against Services. Haryana lost to Bombay in the quarter-finals. Dev achieved his then best innings haul of 8/20 in just 9 overs in the second innings to skittle Bengal for 58 runs in under 19 overs. While his contribution for the rest of that season was ordinary, Haryana qualified for the pre-quarterfinals.

In the 1976–77 season opener against Jammu & Kashmir, he had a match haul of 8/36 in the win. He finished the season with 121 wickets in 30 matches. Kapil Dev made an impressive debut for Haryana in November 1975 against Punjab with a 6-wicket haul, restricting Punjab to just 63 runs and helping Haryana to victory. His paternal family is from Montgomery (now known as Sahiwal) and his mother was born in Pakpattan, Okara. His family moved to Fazilka after the Partition before eventually moving to Chandigarh. Kapildev Ramlal Nikhanj was born in a jat family from Punjab to his father Ram Lal Nikhanj, a teak merchant and his wife, Rajkumari in Chandigarh on 6 January 1959. In 1982 awarded with the Padma Shri and in 1991 the Padma Bhushan. On 11 March 2010, Dev was inducted into the ICC Cricket Hall of Fame. He was the coach of the Indian national team between September 1999 and September 2000. Dev's all-round performance has been praised by cricketers including Sunil Gavaskar who regards him as one of the greatest all-rounders to play the game.

He is the only player in the history of cricket to have taken more than 400 wickets (434 wickets) and scored more than 5,000 runs in Tests, making him one of the greatest all-rounders in the history of cricket. He is the first player to take 200 ODI wickets. At the time, he was also India's highest wicket-taker in both major forms of cricket, Tests and ODIs. He retired in 1994, at the times of holding the world record for the highest number of wickets taken in Test cricket, a record subsequently broken by Courtney Walsh in 2000. He was a fast-medium bowler and a hard-hitting middle-order batsman, and was named by Wisden as the Indian Cricketer of the Century in 2002.ĭev captained the Indian cricket team that won the 1983 Cricket World Cup, and in the process became the first Indian captain to win the Cricket World Cup, and is still the youngest captain (at the age of 24) to win the World Cup for any team.

Kapil Dev Ramlal Nikhanj (Pronunciation: born 6 January 1959) is an Indian former cricketer.

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