Bishan Singh Bedi, who passed away in New Delhi on Monday at the age of 77 due to a prolonged illness, was a controversial figure as captain and the Indian team’s cricket manager. “Critics would call Bishan a rebel. Wrong. To me, he was a cricketer who knew his rights well,” former captain Kapil Dev wrote in a book on Bedi.

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