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Kapil Dev bowls to British PM
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: British Prime Minister David Cameron talks with former cricketer Kapil Dev during a visit to Major Dhyan Chand National Stadium in New Delhi on Thursday. PTI
: British Prime Minister David Cameron talks with former cricketer Kapil Dev during a visit to Major Dhyan Chand National Stadium in New Delhi on Thursday. PTI

Kapil Dev, India's only world cup wining captain, sent down a few ball to the British premier when he visited the national stadium to have a look at the Coomnwealth Games venues.
National stadium, which hosted the hockey World Cup in early this year, is a venue for the CWG hockey event also.

Cameron had words of appreciation for the renovated facility and also wished the organisers success for the Games.

Apart from Kapil, another former Indian cricket captain Bishan Singh Bedi, legendary runner Milkha Singh and sprint queen P T Usha were also part of the delegation invited on the occasion.

The British delegation included Sebastian Coe, head of the London Organising Committee of the Olympic Games, Kelly Holmes, president of Commonwealth Games England, Olympian Sir Steve Redgrave and Richard Scudamore, Chief Executive of the English Premier League.

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(Published 29 July 2010, 20:02 IST)