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‘Son, take a decision that history will remember you by’
Updated On: 26 September, 2021 07:36 AM IST | Mumbai | Team SMD
In a new book that celebrates the glorious sporting career of Bishan Singh Bedi, Anil Kumble remembers the advice he received from the former spin legend when he planned to leave the 2008 Sydney Test mid-way
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Indian bowler Bishan Singh Bedi in action, August 2, 1971. Pics courtesy/Getty Images
For some reason, Bishan paaji had a soft corner for me right from the get-go. Our Sharjah tryst was brief [he met Bishan for the first time when he was picked up for the Indian team in April 1990 for the Australia-Asia Cup in Sharjah]; I rushed back to Bengaluru for my engineering exams after we lost both our matches. As destiny would have it, I was selected for the summer tour of England, which consisted of One-Day Internationals and Test matches. Ahead of the tour, we had a camp in Bengaluru, and it was there that I had the first experience of Bishan paaji’s big heart and generosity.
I had asked him if it would be possible for the Indian team to visit RV College of Engineering, where I was a student. I was only a rookie and it could have been construed as an overenthusiastic request from an excited youngster, but in a fantastic gesture, Bishan paaji readily agreed and brought the whole team over to the college. That made a lasting impression on me.
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