The 2007 T20 World Cup-winning Indian team’s manager, Sunil Dev, dies at age 75

Sunil Dev, a former secretary of the Delhi & Districts Cricket Association (DDCA), died away on Wednesday after a protracted illness.

He was 75 years old, and his wife and kids had passed away.

Dev, who from the late 1970s until 2015 was associated with the DDCA, also participated in a number of BCCI subcommittees while serving as a sports administrator.

Dev’s greatest achievement, nevertheless, came when he was appointed administrative manager of the Indian squad that won the first T20 World Cup in South Africa in 2007.

In addition, he worked as an administrative manager for India’s tours to South Africa in 1996 and England in 2014.

Dev, a natural storyteller, embodied the good, the terrible, and the ugly of the DDCA.

With his opposing positions on different DDCA policy problems, he was able to divide people’s ideas, which made him both allies and enemies in equal measure.

No Ranji Trophy or age-group squad could be announced for a period of time between 1990 and the first decade of the new century without his agreement.

In reality, prominent writer James Astill, the Asia Editor of “The Economist,” had highlighted his encounter with Dev and how his justification and theatrics around ticket sales for a certain game at the Kotla delighted him in his highly praised book “The Great Tamasha.”

There were numerous tales concerning Dev’s working method, but some of them eventually turned into urban legends.

In the presence of reporters, he would tell anecdotes like how Virat Kohli, then 17 years old, learned to operate his SUV while he was in a good mood.