Bishan Singh Bedi was given a warm welcome in Ramgarh, Jharkhand.
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Ramgarh, Neeraj Amitabh: As soon as the news of Bishan Singh Bedi’s demise was received, a wave of mourning ran among the players of Ramgarh. People who once warmly welcomed Bishan Singh Bedi expressed grief over his demise and termed it as an irreparable loss for the cricket world. People paid tribute to him. Late Vedi came to Ramgarh in the year 1981-82. At that time the people of Ramgarh gave him a warm welcome. This great bowler was honored by organizing a ceremony at Ramgarh Gurdwara Sahib.
Bedi had come to Ramgarh for the final match of the local cricket tournament.
In the year 1981-82, some cricket loving youth of Ramgarh formed Ramgarh Cricket Club and organized a cricket tournament. The tournament was played at Ramgarh football ground. Bishan Singh Bedi attended its final match as chief guest. Famous cricket commentator Ravi Chaturvedi and former cricket captain of unified Bihar Daljit Singh also came with him. The team that won the final match was honored by Bishan Singh Bedi and other guests.
Ravi Chaturvedi, who came with Bishan Singh Bedi, did the commentary.
Well-known commentator Ravi Chaturvedi also did commentary for some time in this local tournament. After this, the Sikh community honored Bishan Singh Bedi by organizing a function at Ramgarh Gurdwara Sahib in the evening. The organizers included the then PRC Colonel Ram Singh, late Rishi Sharma, Inderpal Singh Saini Pale, Mahavir Agarwal, Jaspal Singh, Santosh Agarwal, Basant Mittal, Vishal Singh etc.
Bishan Singh Bedi could not recover from the infection
It is noteworthy that the former captain of the Indian cricket team and the country’s greatest left-arm spinner Bishan Singh Bedi died on Monday after a long illness. He was 77 years old. He is survived by his wife Anju, son Angad and daughter Neha. A close friend of hers said that Bedi breathed her last this morning at her home. Recently he had a knee operation. The infection spread and he could not recover from it.
Was the manager of Team India in 1990
Bedi was born in 1946 in Amritsar. He played 67 tests for India and took 266 wickets. He achieved the feat of taking five wickets 14 times in an innings and 10 wickets once in the match. He was part of the golden quartet of spinners of Indian cricket, which included Erapalli Prasanna, Bhagwat Chandrashekhar and Srinivas Venkataraghavan. He was a key part of India’s bowling unit for more than a decade between 1966 and 1978. Bedi was the manager of the Indian cricket team for some time during the tour of New Zealand and England in 1990.
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