Cricket great Kapil Dev becomes the new golf chief in India

India’s World Cup-winning cricket captain Kapil Dev has been appointed president of the Professional Golf Tour of India.

The move into sports will enable Dev’s “valuable experience as a professional athlete” to fuel “the further growth of Indian professional golf,” said Uttam Singh Mundy, CEO of PGTI.

Dev, 65, was one of the world’s greatest all-rounders who led India to their first World Cup victory in 1983 and ended his glittering career in 1994 with 434 Test wickets and 5,248 runs.

The World Cup final upset victory at Lord’s against the West Indies sparked a cricket revolution in India.

He later focused on golf and welcomed the post because it would allow him to “spend more time with my golfing friends and play some more.”