Cricketing legend Kapil Dev in conversation with Gulf News in Dubai

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00:00I like to enjoy every day as it comes so if I get a chance to play golf I feel

00:13very happy and proud because as a sportsman you know I can't play cricket

00:18anymore but if I can play any sports I feel proud about that because as a kid

00:23you're grown up only doing that. I think this is not my game but when I go on to

00:29the greens or go and play I'll give my hundred percent and try to win

00:35everything if not let it so be. I think it look totally every time you come

00:41after six months and it look a different city altogether the growth in the city

00:47and you know the restaurant the food I think it's a wonderful and hats off to

00:55the people who start thinking and give them life in desert where in 80s they

01:02were nothing absolutely nothing and today you can feel proud about that it

01:08become a golfing destination also apart from cricket apart from so many other

01:14sports. Whatever I understand is I think they play almost 10 months in a year the

01:22cricket becomes so much they don't get a chance to rest if you look at a

01:27football or tennis there is season for everything but now there's throughout 10

01:33months or more than 10 months they have a season to play so more you play more

01:38injuries will come out and I think cricket is not a very simple it's a very

01:44athletic game athletic in a sense you use all the muscles and different

01:51grounds and softness and hardness so I think adapting everything is not so

01:57easy the body really toll on body so you crack yes I think cricket is something

02:04more you play but your muscle will dwell whatever I come to know people like you

02:11or other people come and talk about that is that they are not allowed to bowl

02:16more than 20-25 balls or 30 balls in the net I think more you bowl in the net

02:22your muscle will start developing that's one reason and when there is so much

02:28pressure they take to play on the very professional level then the body start

02:35cracking down at that time so I think they have to play more or bowl more more

02:42than anything else I think it's very difficult to say only thing one can say

02:48do we have a team yes we have a team but there are other teams also who has the

02:54ability to win the World Cup I think you need a stroke of luck you need a right

02:58combination and on top of that I hope the main player remain fit that's the

03:05most important thing when they play so much cricket injuries are going to take

03:10place so I hope when they get to play the tournament they don't get injured I

03:17think that's leave it to the cricket board what they plan or selectors I yes

03:22I feel but if I look at the flip side of that there are so many cricketers coming

03:30so everybody get a chance to play only thing is future what I can see from

03:35outside they will have three teams one only for T20 one only for one day cricket

03:42and one only for test cricket that way you can have a bigger pool also but yes

03:51they should have one set of team for a period of time you can have odd person

03:59changing I can understand but man of the match next day they change and somebody

04:04else comes so we as a cricketer don't understand that I think very important

04:10what the academies have where you're learning the cricket there in the school

04:15cricket and junior cricket that's where one have to go more emphasis on the

04:21fastballers rest is if you don't have you don't have something like fastball

04:28you don't produce overnight I think one have to work and have a policy what

04:34kind of cricket they want to see in future I think one shouldn't look at the

04:39world you should look at your team and your way of thinking if Hardik Pandey is

04:44there they should not say if you lose one series you remove him I think if you

04:49make a captain you have to give him a fairly a long rope to make sure he will

04:54he will start performing and he will make a mistake so you don't really see

05:03the mistake you see is he ready for taking the team and give them look for

05:10the future but you don't go by series by series a player of that caliber you

05:17don't have to say why why you have a 11 player of 11 a team of 11 players so why

05:24you want to pick one or two I can have my own liking and disliking but every

05:31generation is going to go better and better in our time I think Sunil Gavaskar

05:36was one of the finest then we saw Rahul Dravid we've seen Sachin Varendar

05:42Sehwag and now this generation Rohit and Virat Kohli and next generation will be

05:48better it's not going to be come down you will find a better cricketer will

05:53come in and perform better we never expected Surya Kumar can come out and

05:58play something like that

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