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Cricketing legend Kapil Dev in conversation with Gulf News in Dubai
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2/15/2025
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I like to enjoy every day as it comes so if I get a chance to play golf I feel
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very happy and proud because as a sportsman you know I can't play cricket
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anymore but if I can play any sports I feel proud about that because as a kid
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you're grown up only doing that. I think this is not my game but when I go on to
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the greens or go and play I'll give my hundred percent and try to win
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everything if not let it so be. I think it look totally every time you come
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after six months and it look a different city altogether the growth in the city
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and you know the restaurant the food I think it's a wonderful and hats off to
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the people who start thinking and give them life in desert where in 80s they
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were nothing absolutely nothing and today you can feel proud about that it
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become a golfing destination also apart from cricket apart from so many other
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sports. Whatever I understand is I think they play almost 10 months in a year the
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cricket becomes so much they don't get a chance to rest if you look at a
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football or tennis there is season for everything but now there's throughout 10
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months or more than 10 months they have a season to play so more you play more
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injuries will come out and I think cricket is not a very simple it's a very
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athletic game athletic in a sense you use all the muscles and different
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grounds and softness and hardness so I think adapting everything is not so
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easy the body really toll on body so you crack yes I think cricket is something
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more you play but your muscle will dwell whatever I come to know people like you
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or other people come and talk about that is that they are not allowed to bowl
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more than 20-25 balls or 30 balls in the net I think more you bowl in the net
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your muscle will start developing that's one reason and when there is so much
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pressure they take to play on the very professional level then the body start
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cracking down at that time so I think they have to play more or bowl more more
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than anything else I think it's very difficult to say only thing one can say
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do we have a team yes we have a team but there are other teams also who has the
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ability to win the World Cup I think you need a stroke of luck you need a right
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combination and on top of that I hope the main player remain fit that's the
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most important thing when they play so much cricket injuries are going to take
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place so I hope when they get to play the tournament they don't get injured I
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think that's leave it to the cricket board what they plan or selectors I yes
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I feel but if I look at the flip side of that there are so many cricketers coming
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so everybody get a chance to play only thing is future what I can see from
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outside they will have three teams one only for T20 one only for one day cricket
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and one only for test cricket that way you can have a bigger pool also but yes
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they should have one set of team for a period of time you can have odd person
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changing I can understand but man of the match next day they change and somebody
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else comes so we as a cricketer don't understand that I think very important
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what the academies have where you're learning the cricket there in the school
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cricket and junior cricket that's where one have to go more emphasis on the
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fastballers rest is if you don't have you don't have something like fastball
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you don't produce overnight I think one have to work and have a policy what
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kind of cricket they want to see in future I think one shouldn't look at the
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world you should look at your team and your way of thinking if Hardik Pandey is
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there they should not say if you lose one series you remove him I think if you
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make a captain you have to give him a fairly a long rope to make sure he will
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he will start performing and he will make a mistake so you don't really see
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the mistake you see is he ready for taking the team and give them look for
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the future but you don't go by series by series a player of that caliber you
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don't have to say why why you have a 11 player of 11 a team of 11 players so why
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you want to pick one or two I can have my own liking and disliking but every
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generation is going to go better and better in our time I think Sunil Gavaskar
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was one of the finest then we saw Rahul Dravid we've seen Sachin Varendar
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Sehwag and now this generation Rohit and Virat Kohli and next generation will be
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better it's not going to be come down you will find a better cricketer will
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come in and perform better we never expected Surya Kumar can come out and
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play something like that
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