From his childhood, Kapil Dev Nikhanj had a love affair. With timber, his family’s way of life, vocation, and business. And, the inevitability was distinct — instead of opting for a career in the yard, Dev was born to play cricket while knocking out the timber from the ground, with the red, or white, cherry — his own simple, but exhilarating tool.
Dev’s cricket was always an evolution of mind — a progression of the Pavlovian response — from the basics to the compound, from the compound to the complex, from the reflex to tropism, and from tropism to the instinctive.
A cricketing natural, Dev was more than a revolutionary: the epitome of cricket’s conscious evolution, a new paradigm of competition, human enterprise, and excellence. Blessed with tons of talent, and a good dose of cricketing intuition — if not pure common sense, on occasions — Dev, from his early years, had shown a great will to learn — including that never-give-up alchemy of a diligent warrior. This was the key to his phenomenal success.
Cricket was Dev’s workstation; his own high-tech device. And, within a short period of time, thanks to his brand of explosive batting, good, deceptive pace, something that was novel for an Indian, and brilliant fielding abilities, Dev began to draw immediate attention.
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