India's first World Cup-winning captain Kapil Dev celebrated his 62nd birthday on Wednesday. On the occasion, several former and current cricketers sent their heart-warming wishes to the former cricketer.
India's cricket governing body BCCI in a tweet called Kapil as "Team India's greatest all-rounder" and highlighted his achievements. Meanwhile, Indian skipper Virat Kohli and batting maestro Sachin Tendulkar prayed for his good health.
Here are a few tweets:
9031 intl. runs
687 intl. wickets
First player to take 200 ODI wickets
Only player to pick over 400 wickets & score more than 5000 runs in TestsWishing @therealkapildev - #TeamIndia's greatest all-rounder and 1983 World Cup-winning Captain - a very happy birthday pic.twitter.com/75lmx0gin2
— BCCI (@BCCI) January 6, 2021
Happy Birthday @therealkapildev . Wishing you happy times ahead for you and your family. Have a wonderful and a healthy year ahead.
— Virat Kohli (@imVkohli) January 6, 2021
Happy birthday @therealkapildev paaji!
Wishing you a year full of happiness & health. pic.twitter.com/J86R25hb8g— Sachin Tendulkar (@sachin_rt) January 6, 2021
A very happy birthday to #KapilDev. I didn't think I would say this to one of the greatest cricketers of our time but wish you lots of happiness and golf!
— Harsha Bhogle (@bhogleharsha) January 6, 2021
Wishing @therealkapildev a very happy birthday Pray for good health and happiness
— Aakash Chopra (@cricketaakash) January 6, 2021
The former India skipper suffered a heart attack in October last year and underwent an emergency angioplasty. However, since then Kapil has recovered steadily and was also seen playing golf in the following month.
