Pran particularly loved cricket and once offered to pay for Kapil Dev&rsquo;s trip to Australia where he would be trained by the nation&rsquo;s fast bowling gurus. <img alt="Heart of Gold: Pran" src="http://images.mid-day.com/2013/jul/Pran.jpg" style="width: 500px; height: 758px;" /> Heart of Gold: Pran In the book &lsquo;&hellip;And Pran &ndash; a biography by Bunny Reuben (published by HarperCollins in 2005), the author wrote: When Khalid Ansari announced in his magazine and few newspapers that while he would pay for Kapil&rsquo;s air fare to Australia, a sponsor was being sought who could cover his other expenses. <img alt="Kapil Dev" src="http://images.mid-day.com/2013/jul/Kapil-Dev.jpg" style="width: 500px; height: 684px;" /> Kapil Dev Pran Saab offered to pay for the entire trip &ndash; air fare and everything else too! Later Kapil revealed: &ldquo;Actually, the board (BCCI) had refused to pay for the training and that report got published in the newspapers. This came to the notice of Pran Saab, an avid cricket lover. &ldquo;Pran Saab always felt that I had the potential of becoming a good player. So he wrote a nasty letter to the board and said, &lsquo;If you don&rsquo;t pay for his training, I&rsquo;ll pay it.&rsquo; Miraculously, the board decided to finance me and I underwent the required training &ndash; all thanks to Pran Saab.&rdquo; Pran was a close friend of former West Indies captain Frank Worrell. Blood cancer caused the death of the legendary player in 1967.

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