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Bishan Bedi, India’s legendary spinner, dies at 77

October 24, 2023
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Bishan Bedi, India’s legendary spinner, dies at 77
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Former India captain Bishan Bedi has died at the age of 77 in Delhi.

Bedi was ailing for the last two years and had undergone multiple surgeries including one on the knee about a month ago. He is survived by his wife Anju, their daughter Neha and son Angad, and his son Gavasinder and daughter Gillinder from his earlier marriage to Glenith Miles.

One of the game’s greatest left-arm spinners, Bedi represented India in 67 Tests and ten ODIs from 1967 to 1979. He was India’s highest wicket-taker in Tests, with 266 at an average of 28.71, at the time of his retirement. Bedi, the unorthodox legspinner Bhagwath Chandrasekhar, and offspinners Erapalli Prasanna and Srinivas Venkataraghavan made up the celebrated spin quartet that dominated Indian cricket in the 1970s.

Outside his feats in Indian cricket, Bedi also enjoyed a successful career in the County Championship with Northamptonshire, for whom he took 434 first-class wickets at 20.89.

“Sad news indeed,” the former India captain Sunil Gavaskar, Bedi’s team-mate in 44 Test matches, said. “He was the finest left-hand bowler that I saw.”

“Sashu,” he’d say with warmth that only he possessed. To Bishan Paaji, I wasn’t just another cricketer; I was like a son. Under his nurturing guidance, I scored my first 100 in England. On chilly NZ evenings, we’d sit over meals, and I’d hang on to every story he told, every… pic.twitter.com/z0ahschCvp

— Sachin Tendulkar (@sachin_rt) October 23, 2023

As a bowler, Bedi was a connoisseur’s delight, renowned for the classical beauty of his action and his ability to maintain a perfect length over long spells while subtly varying his pace, trajectory and release.

“Like most great bowlers, his variation was subtle,” the England captain Mike Brearley wrote of him. “Of all the slow bowlers of Bedi’s time, none forced you to commit yourself later than he did. With tiny, last-second adjustments of wrist and hand-angle, he could bowl successive balls that looked identical, perhaps as if each would land on a length just outside off stump.

“But with the first he would cock his wrist more, deliver the ball slightly higher – it would spin sharply, stay wider of off, and be shorter than you anticipated. The next ball, ever so slightly undercut and a little quicker, would pitch further up and come in towards middle and leg stumps. To the first ball you were likely to play inside the line, and away from the body; to the second, outside the line, and round your front leg, so that there was a risk of inside edge on to the pad.

“The error of judgment induced in the batsman could be as much as a yard in length and a foot in width. And he could make these changes according to what he sensed the batsman was trying to do, in the moment of delivery, so firm and balanced were his action and rhythm.”

Bedi’s control reflected in his numbers. Of the 82 bowlers to have taken at least 200 Test wickets, only three – Lance Gibbs, Richie Benaud and Derek Underwood – have better economy rates than his 2.14.

In 1990, before the England tour, we had a camp in Bengaluru, and it was there that I had the first experience of Bishan paaji’s big heart and generosity.

I had requested him if it would be possible for the Indian team to visit RV College of Engineering, where I was a student. I… pic.twitter.com/EGyDcAcfxw

— Anil Kumble (@anilkumble1074) October 23, 2023

As captain, the charismatic Bedi was admired by players from all over the world. He led India in 22 Tests, winning six, including three overseas. One of these was the historic chase at Port-of-Spain, Trinidad in 1976, when Bedi’s India chased down a target of 403, a record that stood until 2003.

On the domestic front, Bedi led Delhi in four Ranji Trophy finals, winning two of them, in consecutive seasons: in 1978-79 his team got the better of GR Viswanath’s Karnataka, and in the following year they beat Sunil Gavaskar’s Bombay. Bedi would win a third Ranji title, in 1992-93, this time as coach of Punjab, who beat Maharashtra by 120 runs in the final that year.

Fearless, outspoken, uncompromising
On the field, Bedi was known for a personality as colourful as the patkas he wore, and was reputed for both his generosity – he often applauded batters when they hit him for six – and his outspokenness. This led him into some notable clashes, particularly when he captained India. He declared India’s first innings at 306 for 6 at Sabina Park in 1976 in protest at what he felt was intimidatory bowling from West Indies’ fast bowlers on an uneven surface, and two years later conceded an ODI against Pakistan in Sahiwal, when he felt Sarfraz Nawaz had used the bouncer excessively. In Chennai in 1977, he objected to John Lever’s use of vaseline – applied to his brow as an ostensible means of keeping sweat out of his eyes – alleging that the England fast bowler was using it to alter the condition of the ball.

Saddened to hear of the passing of the legendary Bishan Singh Bedi. Many of my predecessors in the Caribbean spoke of his guile and skill as a bowler and competitor in reverential tones.

— Ian Raphael Bishop (@irbishi) October 23, 2023

Bedi continued speaking his mind on cricketing and non-cricketing matters long after he retired. One of his biggest bugbears was chucking. He believed that no fingerspinner could bowl the doosra without straightening the elbow. One of the most controversial statements Bedi made on this topic came in a 2005 interview in which he likened the Sri Lanka legend Muthiah Muralidaran to a “javelin thrower”.

In 2008, at the height of the Monkeygate controversy, when the BCCI threatened to withdraw the India squad from Australa midway through the Border-Gavaskar series, Bedi called the India captain Anil Kumble. “Son, take a decision that history will remember you by,” Kumble recalled Bedi as telling him, in the book The Sardar of Spin: A Celebration of the Life and Art of Bishan Singh Bedi. “Don’t reach a hasty decision, don’t be ruled by emotion.”

Impact on a young Kohli
In his later years Bedi was highly critical of the Delhi and Districts Cricket Association’s (DDCA) administration, and in 2020 wrote to the body requesting that it cancel his membership and remove his name from the stand named after him at the Feroz Shah Kotla – this after the DDCA had decided to rename the stadium after the politician and cricket administrator Arun Jaitley.

Sad to hear about the demise of the great Bishen Singh Bedi, apart from being a great cricketer, he was an affable person and went the extra mile to help young cricketers.

— Ashwin (@ashwinravi99) October 23, 2023

Bedi mentored a host of international players including Maninder Singh, Murali Kartik and Sunil Joshi. He was always generous with his thoughts, and cricketers on tours of India often approached him for his insights. Once he even instructed Shane Warne on how to counter Sachin Tendulkar. “I was telling Shane Warne, after Sachin destroyed him in India, that a straight six is always hit off a good ball,” Bedi said in an interview with Wisden Asia Cricket. “You can’t set a field for a straight six … but I was always happy when somebody hit me for a six, because I thought I could get him out. But before I could explain the intricacies of outwitting a batsman, Warne said, `No, rubbish, this bloody thing is disappearing too often’.”

Bedi the coach was uncompromising. Even Virat Kohli was not spared, as he was graduating through age-group cricket at Delhi where Bedi was a coach. In 2017, while receiving a DDCA award from Bedi, Kohli recounted how the senior focussed on fitness. “From not understanding the importance of fitness and running away from him in Under-15, Under-17, Under-19 cricket only because he made us train too much to becoming [highly fitness-conscious] my life right now is something he has been doing for ages now,” Kohli was quoted as saying by the Hindustan Times. “So many people have been able to succeed because of that. Thank you, sir.”

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