While praising the present gamers of the Indian cricket group, World Cup-winning captain Kapil Dev stated that they do not want his technical inputs of their sport. The India nice feels that he might solely information the present India gamers as they’re good sufficient with their strategies and different facets of the sport. The feedback from Dev got here forward of India’s Cricket World Cup 2023 semi-final match towards New Zealand. Rohit Sharma-led India entered the knockout stage after profitable 9 out of 9 video games within the league stage of the match.

“Not really. I don’t want to get into their shoes. I don’t want to tell them ‘play like this, do this or that’. I just want to detach myself and watch them play,” stated Kapil Dev on TRS Podcast.

“No (the current players don’t reach out to me for help). The ones who want to reach but the ones who don’t want to, I can’t force them, they don’t have any obligation to do so. These kids are very smart, they don’t need people like us. We are not better than them. We can only guide them to get better,” he added.

Dev performed 131 Test matches for India, scoring 5,248 runs and he additionally picked up 438 wickets within the longest format of the sport.

In ODIs, the all-rounder represented the nation in 225 video games. He picked up 253 wickets and smashed 3,783 runs. Dev scored only one century within the restricted overs format — the well-known knock of 175 that got here towards Zimbabwe within the 1983 World Cup.

In the identical match, Kapil Dev’s heroics noticed India raise their maiden World Cup, beating the West Indies within the last.

The Padma Shri and Padma Bhushan awardee known as an finish to his taking part in profession in 1994.