India's one-day captain Mahendra Singh Dhoni on Sunday said the 1983 World Cup victory is a great motivator for his team.
"All the [Indian] cricketers when we look at that moment of Kapil Dev lifting the World Cup trophy at Lord's, it is a moment we want to achieve again," Dhoni said in Mumbai.
The Kapil Dev-led Indian team beat West Indies in the final to win the World Cup celebrates 25 years of the achievement and Dhoni was keen to point out that particular moment holds a special place in Indian cricket and a great moral booster.
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"It is a moral booster, a great motivational point for us. It is one achievement that this team wants to achieve," he said.
Dhoni lead the Indian team to the Twenty20 World Cup triumph last year and he is hoping to lead the team to the 50-over World Cup triumph in 2011.
"We have won the Twenty20 World Cup and we want to win the 50-over version as well. It is a big motivation for us and since we are celebrating [25 years] today," he said.
Asked what he was doing when Kapil lifted the trophy at Lord's, he replied: "It was having milk. I was two years old then."
