Kapil Dev and his world cup winning team of 1983, are often credited with making Cricket popular with India's masses. The World Cup winning captain, however, credits Sachin Tendulkar, Virender Sehwag and MS Dhoni as the ones who changed the face of Indian cricket. Accroding to Kapil Dev, Tendulkar, Sehwag and Dhoni played crucial roles in transforming the way the sport had been played. Virender Sehwag changed the style of modern-day cricket.”Kapil Dev feels that Dhoni’s rise gave hope to youngsters from small cities and towns to dream of representing the country. Every Indian now feels he can belong to a small town and still dream of becoming like Dhoni,” Dev, who himself came from a small town from Haryana, said.

Source: dna November 05, 2017 13:52 UTC