Kapil Dev is a retired Indian Cricketer who held the most significant number of wickets in Test cricket on retiring, making him the highest wicket-taker in Indian in both Test and One Day International (ODI) cricket. He was praised as a fast right-arm pace bowler, hard-hitting middle-order batsman, potent outswinger, leading strike bowler for India in his career, and the best all-rounders cricketer in cricket's history. He was also an Indian national cricket coach and captain winning the cricket World Cup in 1983. Like other famous retired cricketers, he is among those admitted into the famous International Cricket Council (ICC) Cricket Hall of Fame.