Play sports for the love of it, Kapil Dev urges kids in New York

New York: India’s first world-cup winning cricket captain Kapil Dev urged kids to play sports for the love of it, and community leaders to think in terms of delivering cricket pitches so that more people could take up the game in New York and other places in the United States.
New York State passed a law earlier this year amending the existing framework to include “the promotion and expansion of cricket in the state of New York to the jurisdiction of the state athletic commission.” The local cricket leagues are thrilled with this decision.
Kapil Dev answered questions with his signature humour and candour at a fundraiser-cum-spread-the-word event for cricket’s uptake in New York. Kapil Dev’s presence drew eclectic fandom to a packed room at the Indian Consulate in uptown Manhattan.
Kapil Dev’s free flowing conversation with the audience was based on criss-crossed sport, philanthropy and memories of the 1983 cricket World Cup.
Fresh off watching the film 1983, economist and first vice chairman of NITI Aayog Arvind Panagariya asked Kapil Dev whether he really didn’t know he had broken a world record during his historic 175-run knock against Zimbabwe.
“I didn’t know nothing about what the world record is,” Dev told Panagariya. “Ninety seven to 98 percent this movie is true whatever they showed.”