Bollywood actress Katrina Kaif, known for hit movies like Namaste London, Rajneeti and Ajab Prem Ki Ghazab Kahani among others, is leading the race to play the role of Kapil Dev’s wife in the upcoming biopic on the 1983 World Cup winning team captain. According to the latest buzz, the director of the film, Kabir Khan is in talks with Katrina Kaif to finalise the deal.
Katrina Kaif previously collaborated with Kabir Khan for various projects like New York, Ek Tha Tiger and Phantom. According to reports in Crictracker, Katrina herself had shown interest in playing the pivotal character in the movie.
Earlier, Kabir Khan roped in actor Ranveer Singh to portray the role of former Indian all-rounder Kapil Dev. The film will be centred on India’s historic World Cup cricket victory in 1983. Besides finalising the leading lady, the casting for former players like Sunil Gavaskar, Mohindar Amarnath, Sandip Patil and others is yet to be done.
Kapil Dev, also known as Haryana Hurricane, took retirement from International cricket in 1994. In his almost 17-year-long career, Kapil Dev took 434 wickets and 253 wickets in Tests and One Day Internationals respectively.
Besides bagging wickets, he also scored over 5,000 runs the Test matches and about 3,700 runs in One Day cricket.
Let’s have a look at some of his records:
Test cricket:
ODI cricket:
(Source: WIKIPEDIA)
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