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RIP Bishan Bedi
Posted: October 26th, 2023, 8:53 am
by 77ss
One of the great quartet of Indian spinners. And not afraid to speak his mind.
The Times obit made interesting reading:
https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/bish ... -3dlb3r8cs
Re: RIP Bishan Bedi
Posted: October 26th, 2023, 9:49 am
by BigB
I remember him here in '79 playing in test series against England. Also Venkat I guess was one of the others. Who were the other 2?
Re: RIP Bishan Bedi
Posted: October 26th, 2023, 11:07 am
by Newroad
Hi BigB.
The team that I can recall would probably have had Bedi, Prasanna and Chandrasekhar as the spinners. Likely Dev and Ghavri as the quicks.
Mind you, Ghavri wasn't that quick (and Chandrasekhar was - a fast leggy).
Regards, Newroad
Re: RIP Bishan Bedi
Posted: October 26th, 2023, 11:21 am
by 77ss
Newroad wrote:Hi BigB.
The team that I can recall would probably have had Bedi, Prasanna and Chandrasekhar as the spinners. Likely Dev and Ghavri as the quicks.
Mind you, Ghavri wasn't that quick (and Chandrasekhar was - a fast leggy).
Regards, Newroad
Yes, the quartet I had in mind was Bedi, Prasanna, Venkat and Chandrasekhar. Not that all 4 played in the same match very often!
Re: RIP Bishan Bedi
Posted: October 26th, 2023, 11:24 am
by y0rkiebar
Saw him a few times playing for Northants back in the 70's.
RIP.
Re: RIP Bishan Bedi
Posted: October 26th, 2023, 11:34 am
by BigB
"The team that I can recall would probably have had Bedi, Prasanna and Chandrasekhar as the spinners. Likely Dev and Ghavri as the quicks."
Should have remembered Chandrasekhar, but completely blank on Prasanna.
I remember one of the tests Botham got a 130/140, which took him just short of his 1000 runs in test cricket, which was probably a big deal as he'd already got 100 wickets. I think he got there in the next test.
Many years later I was at Lords the day Kapil hit 4 6's in the last 4 balls of the over to avoid the follow-on in the Gooch 333 test!
Re: RIP Bishan Bedi
Posted: October 26th, 2023, 12:06 pm
by Newroad
Hi BigB
Prasanna:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/E._A._S._PrasannaYou would less likely have had Prasanna and Venkat in the same team (as they were the same type of bowler) which is maybe why you can't remember Prasanna and my memory of Venkat is limited - probably down to specific series we watched. The quartet is mentioned and linked to in the above article.
Regards, Newroad