Kapil Dev Turns 64: Top 5 records held by India's 1983 World Cup winning captain with unseen photos - IN PICS

The best captain's innings stats were 9 for 83 against the West Indies in Ahmedabad (1983) 75 wickets in 18 Tests, the most by an Indian in a single year (1983). Indian captain's best bowling performance was 10 for 135 against the West Indies in Ahmedabad (1983)

 

 

 

A total of 5248 runs and 434 wickets were taken by the only player in Test cricket history to reach such milestones. When he scored 1000 runs and took 100 wickets, he was 21 years and 25 days old.

 

 

 

5 for 43 against Australia in Nottingham during the 1983 World Cup became an Indian the first player to take five wickets in an innings. First person to amass 3000 runs and 250 wickets in cricket.

 

Throughout Test history, only one player (619 runs and 74 wickets in 17 Tests) has amassed 600 runs and taken 70 wickets in a single calendar year (1979). In 1983, when he won the Prudential World Cup, the first Indian skipper to do so.

175* against Zimbabwe in the 1983 World Cup at Tunbridge Wells made an Indian the first to score a century. Against Zimbabwe in the 1983 World Cup at Tunbridge Wells, the highest average when batting at number five or lower was 175*.