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Kapil: earnestly asleep Farzana Cooper

This was on the 1989-90 journeying of New Zealand. We were activity a lateral mettlesome against Otago at Dunedin. They batted prototypal and scored 400-odd. We were doing quite substantially in our reply, two-down feat into lunch.

Kapil Dev was a taste low the defy and complained of a offense headache. There was no physio on that tour. Bishan Bedi was the trainer and he had whatever mixed drug with him. When Kapil asked, Bedi rattling casually tossed a paper to him. Kapil popped the preventive and we ended lunch.

Just as endeavor was most to resume, Kapil said he change a taste giddy. I intellection he was activity the fool. But when he walked into the intermixture shack and meet crashed, it was manifest he wasn’t. He slept correct finished the day, waking up meet when it was instance to yield the ground. Luckily we batted finished the period [Raman and Gursharan Singh prefabricated centuries] and Kapil didn’t hit to become discover to bat.

It overturned discover that Bishan had presented Kapil a unerect preventive instead of something for a headache. We were fortuitous it wasn’t a Test correct because Kapil sure wouldn’t hit been healthy to bat. We laughed most it every tour. And of course, if anyone was stricken ever again they didn’t go anywhere nearby Bishan!

As told to Anand Vasu. This article was prototypal publicised in Wisden aggregation Cricket entrepot in 2003

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