Bishan Bedi, a man of letters
No other sport throws up anecdotes the way cricket does, reckons our in-house cricket nut. While fellow sports lovers might like to challenge that view, it is a fact that no other sport lends itself to so much literature than the willow game.

Our man discovered an item in the Letters section of the October 1979 issue of the prestigious The Cricketer International magazine published in the United Kingdom.The letter was not written by an ordinary reader, but India spin stalwart Bishan Singh Bedi, who made his fourth Test tour to England earlier that year. Bedi wrote to the editor of the magazine, Reg Hayter in response to the decision to use a photograph of him on the cover, shot by celebrated cricket photographer Adrian Murrell while Bedi performed a pre-match routine.