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Kapil Dev born on January 6 1959 in Chandigarh is Indian cricketer and the highest pace bowler  in India's crciket history. He is the only cricket player who has scored more than 5000 runs and took over 400 wickets in test cricket.

Kapil Dev made his first cricket debut for his state, Haryana. He joined the Indian National Team in a test series against Pakistan between 1978 and 1979. Although his total of seven wickets over three matches  was not the most spectacular debut, Dev played with great energy, with an impressive delivery of outswingers and an aggressiveness that Indian cricket had not seen for a long time. Dev was actually the first genuine fast bowler in India and he led the bowling attack in India for the next two decades. He finished his testing career with a record of 434 wickets in 131 test matches (this record was broken in 2000 by Courtney Walsh of Jamaica), including 23 five wickethaul.

He took 253 wickets in 225 one-day internationals. Kapil Dev also made a mark as a right-handed middle-order batsman. In a test series against the West Indies from 1978 to 1979, he not only took seven wickets in the fourth test, but also scored 126 runs in the fifth test to help India win the series. His attacking game, often peppered with enormous boundaries (hits crossing the boundary of the field), helped him to score 5,248 runs in 131 tests (including 8 centuries and 3,783 runs in 225 one-day internationals (with one century). 

In 1983 Kapil Dev was appointed Captain of the Indian national team. He downplayed strategy as a leader and led by example. This was best seen in the prudential cup of 1983, when he almost alone helped to defeat Zimbabwe by 175 (its 175 runs were a career high). Inconsistent performance however led to his relief from the captaincy shortly after the victory. In 1984, he was even briefly dropped from the side.

However, Kapil Dev played for India several match-winning innings. The most famous of these are his "5 for 28 "(taking five wickets while only giving 28 runs) against Australia to win the 1981 Melbourne Test in India; taking nine wickets against the West Indies in 1983; scoring 119 out of 138 balls to save India from a test defeat against Australia in 1986; and slamming four consecutive six.  He was only the second cricket player to claim 400 wickets and broke the 431 wickets record of Richard Hadlee in 1994.

Kapil Dev retired in 1994 and had a short but unsuccessful ten-month spell as the Indian national team's coach from October 1999 to August 2000. In 1999, he was involved in a match-fixing controversy that led to his departure from coaching, but was later cleared of all charges following an investigation by the Central Investigation Bureau. From 2006 to 2007, he served as Chairman of India's National Cricket Academy but was forced out when he became an executive in the privately funded upstart India Cricket League. He left the ICL in 2012 and returned to India's Cricket Control Board (BCCI),

 Kapil Dev was honored with two of the highest civil honors in India: Padma Shri (1982) and Padma Bhushan (1991). He was named the Indian Cricket of the Century in 2002 and was admitted to the Hall of Fame of the International Cricket Council in 2009.