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Kapil Dev returns to BCCI fold

Jul 25, 2012: Kapil Dev, the former India captain, has cut off his association with the unofficial Indian Cricket League opening the door to work again with the BCCI

India news

Kapil not eligible for one-time benefit - Shukla

May 31, 2012: Rajiv Shukla, the IPL chairman, has confirmed Kapil Dev, India's World Cup winning captain in 1983, is not eligible for the BCCI's one-time benefit to former cricketers

India news

Not all cricketers are answerable to BCCI - Kapil

May 29, 2012: Kapil Dev, India's 1983 World Cup-winning captain, has said that the BCCI cannot question Indian cricketers who are not employed by or contracted to it on matters that the board considers contradictory to its policies

India news

Kapil Dev likely to miss out on BCCI's benefit payment

May 22, 2012: Kapil Dev appears to have been left out of the list of former cricketers due to receive the one-time monetary benefit announced by the BCCI for former national and domestic cricketers who retired before 2003-04

India news

Tendulkar should reconsider ODI career - Ganguly

Feb 22, 2012: Sourav Ganguly has said Sachin Tendulkar needs to reconsider his decision to keep playing one-day cricket

India news

Rotate seniors to grow young players - Kapil

Sep 21, 2011: Former India captain Sourav Ganguly has said that retirement should not be forced upon the senior players

What's luck got to do with injury?

Aug 4, 2011: When a player walks off the field injured, we tend to sympathise. We need to pause to think if he is culpable

India news

Gavaskar, Kapil criticise Fletcher's appointment

Apr 28, 2011: Former India captains Sunil Gavaskar and Kapil Dev have criticised the appointment of Duncan Fletcher as the coach of the national team, saying the BCCI should have instead picked former India players

1992

South Africa return the favour

Jan 1, 2011: When the time came for South Africa to host their first international series after readmission, it was only natural they pick India

India news

India need a settled side to win World Cup - Kapil

Nov 25, 2010: India's World Cup winning captain Kapil Dev has said MS Dhoni's team has the ability to win the World Cup in 2011 but will have to ensure that it finds a settled combination with its bowlers staying clear of injury

The XI

Sons of a golden age

Sep 14, 2010: Six of the XI made their debuts after November 1989. A sign that this is one of Indian cricket's best periods ever

All-time XI: India

Dhoni, Kumble, Hazare in India's all-time XI

Sep 14, 2010: MS Dhoni has made it to ESPNcricinfo's India all-time XI, beating record-holding keepers Syed Kirmani and Kiran More

ICC Hall of Fame

Kapil Dev inducted into Hall of Fame

Mar 9, 2010: The former India captain played 131 Tests and 225 ODIs across a 16-year career, and is best remembered for leading India to victory in the 1983 World Cup.

South Africa v India, 3rd Test, Port Elizabeth, 1992

One-armed bandit

Feb 21, 2010: As his team-mates collapsed and Donald raged, Kapil Dev took the fight to South Africa

Pakistan v India, 5th Test, Lahore, 1983

Curve it like Kapil

Dec 13, 2009: So what if the series was lost: one man was stoked enough to take eight in the innings - and end Majid Khan's career in the process

Raj Singh Dungarpur 1935-2009

A life devoted to Indian cricket

Sep 12, 2009: Former cricketers and administrators pay tribute to Raj Singh Dungarpur, who passed away at the age of 73

Un-Indian idol

May 30, 2009: Kapil Dev bowled fast at a time when his country didn't produce fast bowlers; his spirit lives on through the style and aggression of modern Indian teams

Indian Cricket League

ICL players optimistic despite failed talks

Feb 24, 2009: Former Australian fast bowler Jason Gillespie, who plays for the Ahmedadbad Rockets, felt it is only a "matter of time" before a resolution is reached between the ICL and the BCCI

Indian Cricket League

Kapil wants BCCI to release pensions

Dec 13, 2008: Kapil Dev has appeared in the Delhi high court and urged that the BCCI be directed to release pensions to former Indian players now associated with the ICL

Indian cricket

PCA restores Kapil poster

Jun 27, 2008: The controversy over the removal of Kapil Dev's poster from the Punjab Cricket Association Stadium (PCA) has ended with the PCA restoring the poster