Legendary Indian cricketer http://www.senore.com/Cricket/Kapil-Dev-c70234 is quite optimistic of India winning 2011 cricket World Cup if right combination of players and uninjured bowlers are used.
He said in an interview that World Cup is just few months ahead and http://www.senore.com/Cricket/India-c750 has still not finalised their world cup team. He said that a lot of changes at this point in time is very dangerous. He also said that Indian team is full of talent but the right combination
must be allowed to play before world cup starts so that they can come up with an environment that can lead to team work which is very necessary for successful teams. As a whole Indian team also needs to improve its fielding and run ups between the wickets
and control injuries of some of key bowlers of team by not exhausting them, he said.
Kapil Dev was captain of Indian Cricket team when India won their first ever World Cup title in 1983. He further added about bowler’s injuries that there are many reasons of injuries that most of the fast bowlers are facing but the most important one is
that their training at the gym is not suited to their skills. He said fast bowlers need to run as much as they can literally like a marathon.
Kapil Dev is India’s most successful bowler throughout history. He took 434 wickets in Tests. Now-a-days there is barely an off season for players and players themselves avoid taking off seasons due to immense financial benefits. Kapil said that new players
should be cautious about kind of cricket they want to play especially in their initial years of career because most of the time new players come, perform very well for a year and then they exhaust themselves by playing all types of cricket continuously.
Kapil is also against the notion of playing cricket just for money and not letting any penny to go away. As being human no cricketer will take rest and let money go away so administration should make such schedules and future tours that players don’t get
exhausted.
He also said that IPL leaves no space for players to rest. Kapil wants cricketers to take front role in IPL and control the league themselves.
He idealises ICL for this sort of function with which he was associated and played a key role in its decisions as cricketer. He said he is very happy with IPL and other cricket league set ups as previously there were only 12-15 cricketers who benefited from
playing cricket but now there are about 400-500 players which are earnings by playing cricket which is a very good progress for cricket as a sport.
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