'I played cricket & live life on front-foot'

Kapil Dev: 100 things, every time you lose a match you wish if you had worked a little harder.

Anuradha SenGupta: Not in terms of individual games but cricket overall. Some people who follow the game very closely say Kapil had the most chances and the biggest stints as captain but he didn’t do what Imran Khan did. He didn’t manage to mentor or nurture a whole bunch of other fast bowlers.

Kapil Dev: Our country is a very big country and I had taken a step to become a fast bowler, which no cricketer took. Everybody wants to become a Sunil Gavaskar or a Sachin till today. But if I look at the last 15 years we have produced enough fast bowlers who may not have sustained that long but you feel happy that the trend has changed from the 70s and the 80s where the second over was bowled by a spinner.

Now I think our captain and the team depend on the fast bowlers that is good enough for me.

Anuradha SenGupta: Kapil Dev, thanks for sharing some stories with us and we wish you in all your endeavours a lot of luck and live life like the way you have played your cricket.

Kapil Dev: On the front-foot.