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A few minutes with Kapil
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Kapil Dev was the cynosure of all eyes during a visit to medical shop in the city
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FORGING BONDS A woman ties a rakhi to Kapil Dev
Kapil Dev exercised restraint while answering a group of presspersons who tried to pick his brain, at Emsons Medicals on Poonamallee High Road. The "Haryana Hurricane" (as the swashbuckling all-rounder was called during his cricketing heyday) visited the medical shop as brand ambassador for Crocin Pain Relief. When asked what or who causes him the greatest pain, Kapil refused to fall for the bait.
When someone from the swelling crowd of onlookers who had besieged the store, asked if he was pained when he was unceremoniously dropped (for the Calcutta Test in the 1984-85 series against England and thereby denied a record of most number of Test matches played on the trot), he said, "I would have been dropped because of poor performance."
Discretion did not mean silence and Kapil showed that he possessed verbal skills to evoke laughter. Before anyone could realise what he was doing, he got behind the counter, played salesman and asked, "Kya dawai lena hai?" (What medicine do you want?)
On the occasion, three young women became Kapil's sisters by tying rakhis and a lad took home a bat bearing the legendary cricketer's signature. He also inscribed his name on the book, "Medicine and Art" by Alan and Marcia Emery. Kapil also visited Muthu Pharmacy in Purasawalkam and Kannankumaran Medicals in Kilpauk. Emson Medicals is second time lucky, because Wasim Akram visited the store in December 2005, on behalf of Accu-Chek.
PRINCE FREDERICK
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