Kapil Dev, a living legend, spoke to The Telegraph for around 45 minutes over breakfast in Kolkata on Saturday. Typically, he was emotional at times and candid always. The following are excerpts

After another defeat, what’s the way forward for Indian cricket?

It’s not for me to offer a prescription… It’s time for the Board to put its head together and correct the things which have gone wrong.
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Dhaka: Virat Kohli smashed a career-best 183 to power India to a crucial six-wicket victory over Pakistan in the Asia Cup one-day tournament in Dhaka on Sunday.

The in-form batsman hit one six and 22 fours in his explosive 148-ball knock. It was his third century in four matches and helped India achieve the stiff 330-run target with 13 balls to spare.

Nasir Jamshed earlier hit a 104-ball 112 for his maiden one-day century and Mohammad Hafeez made a 113-ball 105 to help Pakistan post a challenging total.

Pakistan made it to the final despite the defeat, finishing their league engagements with nine points from three games, while India (eight points from three games) and Bangladesh (four from two) are still in contention.

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KOCHI: The Central Marine Fisheries Research Institute (CMFRI) in collaboration with the Institute of Marine and Antarctic Studies (IMAS), University of Tasmania, will conduct an international workshop on ‘Preparing for climate change on marine systems in Australia and India’ from March 6-10 in the city. more…

WASHINGTON: The SETI ( Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence) Institute is asking the public to join in its hunt for life beyond the Earth.

It says anyone can register on the new website, SETI Live (setilive.org), to help analyse data from SETI’s radio telescope devoted to scanning the heavens for signals from ET. more…

Holi songs have almost become a thing of the past in cinema. Now, the festival of colours seems to have moved to television.

Writer and lyricist Manoj Muntashir says the reason is simple. “Cinema’s the past, television is the present. Television banks on the fossils of cinema for its success. What we saw on the big screen 30 years ago is back on the small screen in a new packaging . Celebrating Holi and other festivals on the tube is no exception.”

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