Top 5 yesteryear players who were tailor-made for T20 cricket

The pocket dynamite crushed a lot of oppositions
The pocket dynamite crushed a lot of oppositions

#2 Kapil Dev

Kapil was nick-named 'The Flying Jatt'
Kapil was nick-named 'The Flying Jatt'

Probably the best fast bowling all-rounder India has ever seen, Kapil Dev had an aura of his own. The 1983 cricket world cup victory can be attributed to him.

India went into the tournament as underdogs. It was his brilliance with the bat and the ball, at different stages of the tournament, that helped India to lift the World Cup for the first time. His captaincy was highly praised in the tournament and it was his catch of Sir Vivian Richards in the final, that proved to be a turning point.

A genuine fast bowler, a hard-hitting batsman and an amazing fielder, Kapil had everything to excel in T20 cricket. He, surely, would have set the stage on fire in t20 cricket as well.

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Although the hard-hitting all-rounder always had his strike rate in the 90s (brilliant for someone who played a majority of his cricket in the 80s), the World Cups brought the best out of him. He had an impact in all the World Cups he played, scoring 669 runs at strike-rate of over 110, to go with 28 wickets in 22 matches.

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