Kapil's 175 the best?
ESPNcricinfo staff
25-Feb-2013
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Twenty-five years since Kapil Dev's momentous innings at Tunbridge Wells, Ayaz Memon still reckons it as the best ODI knock he's ever seen. He writes in the DNA:
Time neither dulled its appeal or dimmed its impact. A whopping 940 ODI hundreds have been scored yet, many of them forgettable, only a few memorable, with this knock (at least in my reckoning) at the apex. It’s not that better batsmen than Kapil have not been seen, or some other innings were not better crafted, but I believe no other innings had had quite the same effect. Kapil was to redefine not only the destiny of the 1983 World Cup, but also Indian cricket. This was not just another batting exploit, it was a catharsis. The game would just not be the same again.
Amit Karmarkar looks back at the knock in the Times of India. Cricinfo's Jamie Alter visited the Nevill Ground, read more here.
Mathew Varghese is sub-editor (stats) at Cricinfo