There can’t be another Kapil Dev: Mohd. Azharuddin

TIL Desk Sports/ Former India captain Mohammed Azharuddin has said there cannot be another Kapil Dev, amid growing comparisons between Hardik Pandya and the World Cup winning skipper. Pandya’s whirlwind innings of 93 in the first Test against South Africa on a difficult track at Cape Town gave further fuel to the comparison between him and Dev.

“It is not advisable to do that. It is not good because there can never be another Kapil Dev. It is very difficult to get another Kapil Dev as the amount of hard work and workload he took over a period of time — he used to bowl 20-25 overs in a day not many people can do it now,” the 54-year-old told reporters at the sidelines of a school event.

Indian team suffered humiliating back-to-back defeats in the first and the second Test against South Africa but bounced back to win the final Test on the back of a splendid bowling show. Terming the result as “unlucky”, Azharuddin said: “The bowlers won the last Test match. They really put South African batsmen under pressure. We were bit unlucky that we could not get the series our way.