And thus spoke Kapil

Kapil Dev, without any struggle, has got complete independence from the rules of the English language. He speaks a unique language that has its own rules - sometimes, half his sentence is in English and the other half is in 'Kaplish'. Madhavankutty Pillai elaborates in Open magazine.

In recent times, we have heard a lot of Kaplish, thanks to the BCCI–ICL spat and television. He abolished prepositions (We are not expecting any recognise us), he was liberal with the indefinite article (The idea is to have a cricket in India), and sometimes, well, sometimes he said something like this: I never want to say that but today I am saying that. Today or ever cricket will go divide somewhere only one person to be blamed.