Bishan Singh Bedi, a former Indian captain, has delivered a scathing salvo against another, Sunil Gavaskar, in the wake of recent happenings in Indian cricket.
Bedi termed Gavaskar a “destructive” influence and felt he “always liked power without accountability”. These comments come in the wake of Gavaskar criticising Dav Whatmore in one of his columns, despite being part of the committee that was to decide the next coach.
“Cricket circles had immense and blind respect for him [as a cricketer] and he successfully used this to ensure that board officials remained in awe of him,” Bedi told Outlook, a weekly Indian magazine. **“He wants the glamour, the position and if there are any financial gains so much the better … but he does not want any accountability. He’s always liked power without accountability.”
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Bedi was critical of Gavaskar’s role at the National Cricket Academy, where he was the director from 2001 to 2006. “I had a lot of time for his batting but never as a thought leader,” said Bedi. "You tell me what his contribution has been. He is destructive, there is nothing positive. I remember the time I was called by the then NCA director Brijesh Patel, along with Erapalli Prasanna and VV Kumar, to train spinners there. We did not hear at all from NCA chairman Gavaskar before, during or after the camp. I also recall his presiding over a captains and coaches meeting where he gave me the impression that he was not even listening.
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“I can’t forget the time he once told a team meeting ‘The day I stop thinking of money, I will stagnate’.”
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Gavaskar has been embroiled in a few controversies in the last few years, one of them involving writing about how John Wright, India’s former coach, was abused by the players only after Wright’s term ended. More recently he suggested John Emburey as a candidate for the job of Indian coach despite the fact that his coaching credentials were less than impressive.
Re: Gavaskar a ‘destructive’ influence - Bishan Bedi
Well, the mod does’t run the fourm like Nickelodeon however he feels that a forum which normally has mature posts sometimes become a Nickelodeon show because some people want to instigate a fight like little kids just for the sake of having one.
Re: Gavaskar a 'destructive' influence - Bishan Bedi
Well, the mod does't run the fourm like Nickelodeon however he feels that a forum which normally has mature posts sometimes become a Nickelodeon show because some people want to instigate a fight like** little kids**:D :D:Djust for the sake of having one.
Sure this was the only discussable **thing you could find in this thread, **very mature:D:D:D
Re: Gavaskar a 'destructive' influence - Bishan Bedi
Sure this was the only discussable **thing you could find in this thread, **very mature:D:D:D
I thought something which was making you suicidal really needed immediate attention and plus I don't pay much attention to what Bedi says even if sometimes he is right because generally he is full of $hit.
Re: Gavaskar a 'destructive' influence - Bishan Bedi
Actually Bishen Singh Bedi is a slightly more refined version of sarfaraz Nawaz.
Bedi does not shoot his mouth off on things he has no idea about and he does not feed rumour mills (like Safraaz claiming that Bob Woolmer was done in by the Gambling Syndicate even before the police investigation had started).
Bedi is usually right on the money...it is just that he is not politically correct as are most people who like to call a spade a spade.
He called Murli a chucker...I don't see any problem with that.
At one time during India's tour of NZ (when he was the team manager) , he said he felt like drowning the whole team into the pacific after India had lost a game. How many times have you heard a coach/manager say that in the middle of the tour. But Bedi is not one to mince words.
I think his views about Gavaskar is also spot on. Its no secret that Gavaskar has a huge ego. Once in a test match against Australia, Gavaskar forced his non-striking partner (Chetan Chauhan) to walk back with him to the pavillion to protest the LBW decision he got from the Umpire. That is some indication of his ego.
Emburey (a guy with ordinary credentials both as a player & coach) was invited for the Coach interview only to satisfy Gavaskar's ego - who perhaps wanted to have his say in the process.
Re: Gavaskar a 'destructive' influence - Bishan Bedi
^^ Could it be that gavaskar wanted to see someone coaching team india, who to 10K was a person 10K can influence with team strategy+selection.
John is not such a big strature of a coach as Whatmore or chappell, so chances of him being feeling intimidating gavaskar are less than Whatmore or Chappell.
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