6. Kapil Dev
Born: January 6, 1959, Chandigarh
Current age: 54 years 326 days
Major teams: India, Haryana, Northamptonshire, Worcestershire
Batting style: Right-hand bat
Bowling style: Right-arm fast-medium
Kapil Dev was the greatest pace bowler India has produced, and their greatest fast-bowling allrounder.
If he had played at any other time – not when Imran Khan, Ian Botham and Richard Hadlee were contemporaries – he would surely have been recognised as the best all-rounder in the world.
In any case he did enough to be voted India’s Cricketer of the Century during 2002, ahead of Sunil Gavaskar and Sachin Tendulkar.
While he came in much lower down the order when compared to many other players on this list, Dev still managed to score 5248 runs at 31.05 in his 131 Test matches with eight centuries and 27 50s coming in his glittering career.
Check out Dev scoring 89 off 55 balls against England in 1982.
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