Indian Cricket legends Sunil Gavaskar and Kapil Dev are believed to have never been good friends while playing with each other. There have been many stories of moments when the two greats of the game didn't quite feel along the same lines, even though they continue to have immense respect for each other and are actually good mates. 

Talking about his relationship with Kapil Dev to India Today on the special occasion of Friendship Day, Gavaskar for another time cleared, "We are very good friends. We were good friends back then as well. Maybe the board wanted to divide us, maybe the media also wanted the same,"

This is when the great man also gave an example of when he shared an angry exchange on the field with Kapil Dev and said, "But we were once involved in an angry exchange and that was in 1979 while playing against Pakistan. I was batting on 166 and then I played a shot towards backward point off Imran Khan. I wanted to take a single but Kapil Dev declined from the non-striker's end and then I got out on the very next delivery,"

"So I was very angry when I returned to the dressing room. Kapil would have played the bouncer better than me had we taken the single and our partnership would have grown. Tea was taken 10-15 minutes after my dismissal and in the break, I yelled at him. As far as I remember, that's the only instance of an angry exchange between two of us,"

Gavaskar even described Kapil as India's greatest match-winner ever. 

He said, "For me it was an absolute honour to have played in the same team (as Kapil). With due respect to all those wonderful players who have won matches for India over the last years, there has been nobody who has turned around with bat and ball as Kapil has."

"It has been hard work for him, it has not been easy. His enthusiasm is absolutely incredible. (It was) hard time for me as a captain to stop him,"