Bishan Singh Bedi Passed Away: The cricket world has expressed grief over the demise of former Indian cricket team captain Bishan Singh Bedi. BCCI Secretary Jai Shah said that we have lost an icon.
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Former Indian cricket team captain Bishan Singh Bedi passed away on Monday. He breathed his last at the age of 77. India’s legendary left arm spinner Bedi played 67 Tests for India between 1967 and 1979 and took 266 wickets. At the same time, he also took seven wickets in 10 ODI matches. Bedi was a part of the famous spin quartet of the Indian team in the 70s. It stars Erapalli Prasanna, BS Chandrasekhar and S Venkataraghavan Bedi.
Bedi considered Sachin Tendulkar like his son. In Bedi’s book ‘Sardar of Spin’, Tendulkar wrote that, when Bedi was the coach of the Indian team in 1990, he used to behave strictly in the nets. Outside the nets he treats me like his son. The book ‘Sardar of Spin’ was written by Bishan Singh’s daughter Neha Bedi.
Played 67 tests for India
Bedi played 67 test matches for India. During this period he took 266 wickets. Bedi was born on 25 September 1946 in Amritsar. He played 370 first class cricket matches for Delhi. Bedi took 1560 wickets in first class cricket. On 30 August 1979, Bedi played her last international match against England.
Captaincy in 22 test matches
Bedi captained India in 22 Test matches. Of these, Team India won 6 and lost 11. 5 tests were drawn. In ODI cricket, he captained in 4 matches. In this, India won 1 and lost 3.
Also played 1975 World Cup
Bedi also played 2 matches for India in the 1975 World Cup. In the 1975 ODI World Cup in England, he played against East Africa and New Zealand and took 1 wicket each in both the matches. This was Bedi’s first and last World Cup.
When Bedi gave victory to Pakistan
Bishan Singh Bedi was an advocate of playing cricket in a gentlemanly manner. Cricket lovers still remember his decision in the 1978 ODI match against Pakistan in Sahiwal. In this match, India needed to score 23 runs in the last 14 balls. Eight wickets were left. Here Bedi called back her batsmen and gave victory to Pakistan.
Bedi was angry with the poor attitude of Pakistani bowlers and poor umpiring. Pakistani fast bowler Sarfaraz Nawaz had bowled four consecutive bouncer balls. Some of these balls went over the batsman’s head. Despite this the umpire did not give wide. The umpires were also from Pakistan. Bedi had said that the match was not being played in the proper spirit of the game, so she decided to recall the batsmen.
The first wife was Australian
Bedi married twice. His first wife was Australian. In 1967-68, the Indian team went on Australia tour. During this time, Bishan Singh Bedi met Australian girl Glenith at a party in Melbourne. Within a few meetings the two fell in love and soon got married. A few years later, Bedi-Glenith had a son, whom they named Gavas Inder Singh. The word ‘Gavas’ in the name was taken from the surname of legendary Indian cricketer Sunil Gavaskar. Bishan Singh Bedi and Glenith got divorced after a few years.
Angad Bedi after second marriage
After this, Bedi got married for the second time to Anju from B Bharat. From which came his son Angad Bedi. Angad is a well-known model and actor. Bedi also has a daughter named Neha from her second marriage.
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