Kapil Dev Asked Don Dawood Ibrahim To Leave Indian Dressing Room: From cricket to cinema world, the Mumbai underworld is said to have a lot of influence in the East. Although the conditions are very normal at present, the situation in the 80s or 90s was just the opposite. In such a situation, an incident related to the Indian cricket team during 1986-87 is very popular, when the then Indian captain Kapil Dev and underworld don Dawood Ibrahim came face to face in Sharjah. This entire incident was confirmed by former Indian cricketer Dilip Vengsarkar, who was a part of the Indian dressing room.
According to Dilip Vengsarkar, in 1986-87, Don Dawood Ibrahim had entered the dressing room with famous Indian actor Mehmood. During this time, Mahmood had introduced Dawood to the players as a businessman, but he recognized Dawood as soon as he saw him. During that time, Kapil Dev was not in the dressing room, he had gone to attend the press conference regarding the match to be held against Pakistan the next day. Regarding this incident Dilip said,
“No one recognized Dawood, but I had already seen his pictures. So I recognized him as soon as I saw him. Dawood offered gifts to all the players of the team. He said that if we beat Pakistan tomorrow So he will gift cars to all the players.”
Kapil Dev showed Dawood Ibrahim the way out
Dawood Ibrahim stayed in the dressing room for some time while talking to the players and offering them gifts. Then after finishing the press conference, captain Kapil Dev also arrived. He immediately asked David to go out. During this, Kapil, without wasting any time in any conversation, told Dawood to “go out”. The Indian team, which had won the 1983 ODI World Cup, was in a better position in world cricket during that time. Let us tell you that during this incident related to Dawood Ibrahim, in the ongoing India-Pakistan series, Javed Miandad gave a historic victory to his team by hitting a six on the last ball of Chetan Sharma's over.
In 1987, Dawood Ibrahim, went into Indian dressing room during a match in Sharjah & told to Team India players that if they defeated Pakistan, each member of the Indian would team would get a car. Then captain, Kapil Dev booted him out saying: “Chal bahar chal”.
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