Kapil Dev:The lesser known facts

Every cricket crazy fan is well aware of Kapil Dev, hero of Indian world cup winning squad. We all know very much about this legend, but their are few things that are not known to everyone. Following are the few:

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1. Kapil Dev was never run out in his Test career. In 184 Test innings Kapil was not run out even once.2. Ability to rotate the strike. In ODIs Kapil faced 3979 balls to score 3783 runs for that strike rate of 95.1- 291 balls for fours and 67 for sixes. If you remove these 358 deliveries he dispatched for fours and sixes, you will find he scored the remaining 2217 runs of 3621 balls. In other words, he ticked along at a strike rate of 61.2 even of those balls which had not gone for a four or a six.

3. Kapil Dev never missed a Test because of injury or fitness reasons in a career that spanned 131 tests spread over 16 years.