Even as uncertainty prevails over whether Kapil Dev has been left out of the list of former cricketers due to receive the one-time monetary benefit by the BCCI, the former India captain on Wednesday said officials of the Cricket Board are the "boss" and it's their call.

Kapil Dev appears to have been left out of the list of former cricketers due to receive the one-time monetary benefit announced by the BCCI for former national and domestic cricketers who retired before the 2003-04 season.

Born almost a year after the Indian cricket team lifted the 1983 World Cup, Ireland allrounder Kevin O'Brien said it was Kapil Dev whom he had always looked up to as a budding cricketer.

After donning the olive greens of the Army last year, Indian cricket captain Mahendra Singh Dhoni is planning to undertake a tour of forward areas to motivate the soldiers deployed in the far-flung areas of the country.

Mohinder Amarnath, a member of 1983 World Cup winning team under Kapil Dev, said India were very lucky that a player of Tendulkar's stature was playing for the country.

Former India captain Kapil Dev's view that Sachin Tendulkar should have retired from ODI cricket after the World Cup evoked sharp reactions from former cricketers who said that he was still the "main player" of the team and should be allowed to decide when to retire.

Former Indian World Cup winning captain Kapil Dev has hit out at MS Dhoni's decisions as a captain and even called him 'seemingly biased'.

Former India skipper Dilip Vengsarkar on Wednesday, slammed suggestions in the media and views of another former captain Kapil Dev that Sachin Tendulkar should quit one-day cricket, saying that the master batsman needed no advice on this issue.

Former captain Kapil Dev on Wednesday refused to believe that there was 'rift' within the Indian team in Australia but said the BCCI should step in to sort out the "difference of opinion".

Former India captain Kapil Dev feels Sachin Tendulkar should retire from one-dayers, saying the champion batsman's time is finally up after over two decades at the international level.