Kapil Dev suffers heart attack, undergoes angioplasty
The 62-year-old Kapil Dev, captain of India’s first World Cup cricket winning team in 1983, is now in Intensive Care Unit (ICU) and the hospital said he is in “stable condition” now.
“Former Indian Cricket captain Kapil Dev, came to Fortis Escorts Heart Institute (Okhla Road) emergency department at 1:00 am on October 23 with a complaint of chest pain. He was evaluated and an emergency coronary angioplasty was performed by Dr Atul Mathur, director of cardiology department, in the middle of night,” read the statement from the hospital.
“Currently, he is admitted in ICU and under close supervision of Dr Atul Mathur and his team. Kapil Dev is stable now and he is expected to get discharged in couple of days,” the statement added.
In an updated statement an hour later, the hospital said “Kapil Dev suffered a heart attack.”
Angioplasty is a procedure to clear blocked arteries and restore normal blood flow to the heart.
Kapil Dev, popularly and respectfully called “paaji” by India’s current cricketers, led India to a 43-run victory against the mighty West Indies under Clive Lloyd’s captaincy in the World Cup final at the Lord’s, London, in 1983.
