World champion captain Kapil Dev got a big responsibility, he/she was made the PGTI president

New Delhi. World champion captain of Indian cricket team Kapil Dev is going to start a new innings. This legend, who captained India’s 1983 World Cup winning team, has taken over as the new President of the Indian Professional Golf Tour (PGTI). This post is a new beginning for this eminent former cricketer, who has also performed brilliantly as an amateur golfer.

Sixty-five-year-old Kapil was already a member of the PGTI board as vice-president. he/she was elected unanimously. he/she will replace HR Srinivasan whose term has ended. Kapil is known as a good golfer. Talking about his/her new position, Kapil said, “It is an honour for me to become the president of PGTI. I have been associated with this organisation for the last few years. It is a players’ organisation and I am a very good friend of all of them and I often play with them.”

Kapil said golf has been his/her passion for more than three decades. The former cricketer said he/she dreamt of representing India at the Asian Games when only amateurs were allowed to participate. “And now it is the sport I spend most of my time in. I have been the vice-president and I am on the board, so I am very proud to be elected president by the players. I promise to do my best as always,” he/she said.

Kapil has been at the forefront of trying to bring in new sponsors for the PGTI. he/she has managed to organise one of the most lucrative tournaments on the tour, the Kapil Dev Grant Thornton Invitational at the DLF Golf and Country Club with a prize money of Rs 2 crore. India’s top star players like Jeev Milkha Singh, Arjun Atwal, Jyoti Randhawa, Shiv Kapur are his/her close golf friends.

Kapil Dev’s brilliant cricket career

Kapil played cricket for India from 1978 to 1994. One of the greatest all-rounders of all time, Kapil played 131 Tests and 225 ODIs. Under his/her leadership, India won the 1983 World Cup. his/her unbeaten innings of 175 runs in the 1983 World Cup is considered one of the best innings in the history of the game. In Test cricket, he/she scored 5248 runs with the help of eight centuries and took 434 wickets, which was a world record at that time. he/she also scored 3783 runs in ODIs and took 253 wickets in this format.

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