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Sardar of spin

by Gyanvitaranam

   The name Bishan Singh Bedi conjures up one of the finest bowling actions in cricket poetry in motion. The most successful of India’s legendary spin quartet of the 1970s, Bedi was a master of deception who combined variations in flight, spin and pace to beguile the best of batsmen. Playing at a time when Indian cricket was just coming into its own, he featured in the incredible Indian victories in England and in the Caribbean in the 1970s.

   The cricketers after their playing days are over, have a tendency to reveal a number of stories. These are the stories that many hero-worshippers still read with lots of delight as they still want to follow their star cricketers through their thick and thin.

   Sunil Gavaskar wrote the book Sunny Days when he was still active playing and it sold well as those were the era when print was at its prime.

   In recent times Sachin Tendulkar, M.S. Dhoni, Yuvraj Singh,....

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