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Kapil Dev and Dawood Ibrahim: Kapil Dev won the first World Cup to the Indian team in 1983. Kapil Dev was one of the famous and legendary all-rounders of India. In 1987, Kapil Dev had banished underworld don Dawood Ibrahim from the dressing room. Former player and Kapil Dev’s partner Dilip Vengsarkar had disclosed this. Kapil Dev himself had reacted to this statement of fellow player Dilip.
Talking about this to India Today, Kapil Dev had said, “Yes, I remember during a match in Sharjah a person came to our dressing room and wanted to talk to the players. But I told him to leave immediately as outsiders were not allowed in the dressing room. He listened to me and went out of the dressing room without saying anything. Later, someone told me that later, someone told me that he was a smuggler from Bombay and his name was Dawood Ibrahim. Apart from this nothing happened.
Kapil Dev told that he did not know anything about the Toyota car offer. He said, “No such off came to my notice then. If Dilip is saying so now, he must know more than me.” Dilip Vengsarkar said at an event in Jalgaon, “Dawood had said, ‘If you guys win the tournament, I will give you all a Toyota car. The offer was not accepted by the team.
Jaywant Lele also mentioned in his book
Former BCCI secretary Jaywant Lele also mentioned this incident in his book ‘I am there – Memoirs of a Cricket Administrator’. He wrote about the Toyota car offer, “If the Indian team becomes the champion here, I will present a Toyota car to all the team members including the officials at their doorstep in India.”
The former BCCI secretary further wrote, “Unfortunately, India lost the tournament. Australia was declared champions on the basis of higher run rate, as Australia, England and India scored equal points! Most of the team members were not in tears after the results were announced, but man!”
Jaywant Lele further told that he came to know after a long time that the man was Dawood Ibrahim. He wrote, “It was only after a long time that we learned that the man we met in Sharjah in 1987 was Dawood Ibrahim, the alleged mastermind of the brutal 1993 Mumbai blasts.”
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