Dev captained the Indian cricket team that won the 1983 Cricket World Cup. and in the process became first Indian Captain to win Cricket World Cup. He was the coach of the Indian national team between September 1999 and September 2000. He retired in 1994, holding the world record for the greatest number of wickets taken in Test cricket, a record subsequently broken by Courtney Walsh in 2000. At the time, he was also India's highest wicket-taker in both major forms of cricket, Tests and ODIs. He is the first player to take 200 ODI wickets. He is the only player in the history of cricket to have taken more than 400 wickets (434 wickets) and scored more than 5000 runs in Tests, making him one of the greatest all-rounders in the history of cricket. On 11 March 2010, Dev was inducted into the ICC Cricket Hall of Fame.