- Lived:
- b. 6 January 1959, Chandigarh — living, as of September 2026; the life happened on cricket grounds from Faisalabad to Lord's, and in the imagination of a billion people
- Field:
- cricket — fast bowling, explosive batting, captaincy; India's first genuine pace-and-swing spearhead and the captain of the 1983 World Cup champions
- The Big Idea:
- Told as a boy that "India doesn't produce fast bowlers," he became one anyway — and then, at twenty-four, led a team of 66-to-1 outsiders to a World Cup that changed what India believed it was capable of, and changed who runs world cricket.
- In their words:
- "I am a fast bowler" — his reply, by his own oft-told account, to the official who informed him India produced none
- If you remember one thing:
- On 25 June 1983, India defended 183 runs against the most feared team on earth and won the World Cup at Lord's — and the money, confidence and audience of world cricket have been moving toward India ever since.