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'1983 WC win great motivation for us'

June 22, 2008 18:24 IST

India's [ Images ] one-day captain Mahendra Singh Dhoni [ Images ] on Sunday said the 1983 World Cup victory is a great motivator for his team.

- Summer of '83

"All the [Indian] cricketers when we look at that moment of Kapil Dev [ Images ] lifting the World Cup trophy at Lord's, it is a moment we want to achieve again," Dhoni said in Mumbai [ Images ].

The Kapil Dev-led Indian team beat West Indies [ Images ] 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.

- 1983 World Cup celebrations kick-off Sunday

"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 [ Images ] 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."

Harish Kotian in Mumbai