Former Indian cricketer Yograj Singh revealed that he had was very close to putting a bullet through Kapil Dev’s head. Yuvraj Singh’s father resorted to this extreme step after he was dropped from the Indian team by the then captain. During his career, Yograj played six ODIs and only one Test which came in 1981.
When Yograj Singh wanted to kill Kapil Dev
Speaking to Samdhish Bhatia in an interview, Yograj revealed that he was furious with Dev for dropping him from the team without reason when he became the captain of India, North Zone and Haryana. He claimed that he had taken his pistol and charged to Kapil’s house where he demanded answers. He said that while he wanted to put a bullet through the then Indian skipper’s head, he stopped short because of the latter’s “very pious mother”.
“My wife wanted me to ask Kapil questions. I told her that I would teach this bloody man a lesson. I took my pistol out, I went to Kapil’s house in Sector 9. He came out with his mother. I abused him a dozen times. I told him because of you I have lost a friend and what you have done, you will pay for it. I told him, ‘I want to put a bullet through your head, but I am not doing it because you have a very pious mother, who is standing here,” Yograj Singh said.
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Further, Yograj revealed that he stopped playing cricket due to alleged politics by Kapil Dev and Bishan Singh Bedi. He went on to claim that then chief selector Bishan Singh Bedi did not pick him because he thought the former was “Sunil Gavaskar’s man”.
“These guys, including Bishan Singh Bedi, they plotted against me. I never forgave Bishan Singh Bedi. The man died on his bed. When I was dropped I spoke Ravindra Chadha, one of the selectors. He told me that Bishan Singh Bedi (the chief selector) didn’t want to pick me because they thought I was Sunil Gavaskar’s man and because I was playing cricket in Mumbai. I was very close to Gavaskar,” he added.
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