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3 Kapil Dev and Kirti Azad
Kapil Dev is, without a doubt, among the greatest cricketers that India has ever produced and the great all-rounder forged a great friendship with another all-rounder during the initial years of his career.
A few years after Kapil's debut, Kirti Azad was selected for India's tour to Australia in 1980-81 and the two all-rounders were room-mates during that tour. In the book, Kapil Dev Triumph of the Spirit, Azad states, 'Kapil and I have been very, very close friends. We really go to know each other well on the five-month tour of Australia in 1980-81.
We were room-mates. We hit it off from day one and have never looked back since.' Although Azad did not play many games for India, he played a pivotal role for India in the 1983 World Cup semi-final, when he got Ian Botham cheaply and had a little hand to play in one of Kapil Dev's finest hours as captain.
