After successful angioplasty, Kapil eager to play golf (2nd Ld)

By Qaiser Mohammad Ali New Delhi, Oct 23 : Kapil Dev, India’s first World Cup-winning cricket captain who underwent a successful emergency coronary angioplasty here, is hale and hearty and already thinking of getting to the golf course for another round.
There is a WhatsApp group of the 1983 World Cup-winning India team and all the news related to the members of that wonderful bunch are shared on it. His former India teammates wished Kapil, 61, speedy recovery on this group and the legendary cricketer’s reply shows he is apprently in great shape in the hospital.
“Hi everyone. I’m in good spirits and doing well. On the way to a speedy recovery. Can’t wait to return to my golf game. You guys are my family. Thank you,” Kapil wrote in reply to the wishes of his former India teammates.
A member of the World Cup-winning squad said: “The man with the mighty heart, Kapil, has recovered very fast. True to his character he had turned the tough times upside down.” Kapil was admitted to the Fortis-Escorts Heart Institute Hospital in south Delhi at around 1 a.m. on Friday, a statement from the hospital said. He is stable now and would be discharged in a couple of days, it added.
“Former Indian cricket captain Kapil Dev came to Fortis Escorts Heart Institute (Okhla Road) emergency department at 1 am on October 23 with a complaint of chest pain. He was evaluated and an emergency coronary angioplasty was performed by Atul Mathur, Director of Cardiology Department, in the middle of night,” the statement read.