 "(From left) Kapil Dev, Zaheer Khan and Mayank Yadav")
It is a five-decade-old incident that is worth retelling. Sometime in 1975, Kapil Dev, then a precocious 16-year-old, would get selected for a camp in Chandigarh that had a motley bunch of young, emerging cricketers. During the lunch break, Kapil demanded more food from the organiser. “Don’t you know that I’m a fast bowler. I need more food,” he asserted.
“We do not produce fast bowlers in this country,” the organiser retorted.
The response would firm up Kapil’s resolve to become a pacer.
Three years later, he was in Faisalabad, ready to bowl his first delivery in international cricket.
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