{"id":393958,"date":"2023-11-25T02:52:25","date_gmt":"2023-11-25T02:52:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/haftavasool.com\/haftavasool\/blog\/2023\/11\/25\/when-captain-bishan-singh-bedi-wanted-karsan-ghavri-to-stop-bowling-cricket-news-times-of-india\/"},"modified":"2023-11-25T02:52:25","modified_gmt":"2023-11-25T02:52:25","slug":"when-captain-bishan-singh-bedi-wanted-karsan-ghavri-to-stop-bowling-cricket-news-times-of-india","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/haftavasool.com\/haftavasool\/blog\/2023\/11\/25\/when-captain-bishan-singh-bedi-wanted-karsan-ghavri-to-stop-bowling-cricket-news-times-of-india\/","title":{"rendered":"When captain Bishan Singh Bedi wanted Karsan Ghavri to stop bowling | Cricket News &#8211; Times of India"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> [ad_1]<br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>MUMBAI: It\u2019s been a month since <!-- -->Bishan Singh Bedi<!-- --> has passed away, but the former India captain keeps getting remembered by those who played with him. On Friday, at the Reliance Digital presents 92nd annual prize distribution function of The Times Cricket Shield for the year 2022-2023, former India left-arm seamer <!-- -->Karsan Ghavri<!-- --> narrated an interesting incident while playing under Bedi\u2019s captaincy, when he took five wickets bowling left-arm spin, much to Bedi\u2019s surprise.<br \/>\u201cI was basically a left-arm seamer. Out of my 109 Test wickets, only eight have come bowling left-arm spin. During a Test match against Tony Greig\u2019s England at the Wankhede in 1976, Bedi, who was the India captain, went inside the dressing room for a massage or something.Sunil Gavaskar, who was the vice-captain then, gave me the ball. I bowled eight-nine overs, in which I picked up five wickets, and England were all out,\u201d recalled Ghavri to a warm applause.<br \/>He then continued: \u201cAs we were coming off the ground, Bedi was all ready to come back to the ground, and said: \u2018I\u2019m ready to bowl. I\u2019ll run through England.\u2019 However, after seeing everyone coming back to the dressing room, he was left surprised and asked our manager: \u2018what\u2019s going on?\u2019 \u2018England have been bowled out,\u2019 the manager replied. \u2018How\u2019 Bedi asked. \u2018Ghavri took five wickets,\u2019 the manager replied. \u2018Did we take the new ball, Bedi asked. \u2018No, he bowled spin,\u2019 \u2018Really?\u2019 wondered Bedi.\u201d<br \/>Ghavri\u2019s success as a left-arm spinner then went on to land him in \u2018trouble\u2019 with the captain. <br \/>\u201cIn the dressing room, he (Bedi) got hold of me, and said: \u2018Karsan, stop bowling spin.\u2019 \u2018why paaji. I just took five wickets,\u2019 I asked. \u2018No, forget in the match, don\u2019t even bowl in the nets,\u2019 he said, before saying (in jest): \u2018if you take a \u2018fiver,\u2019 what will I do?\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n<div data-pos=\"0\" class=\"id-r-component QbQNS undefined  &#10;        \">\n<div><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Bedi\" msid=\"105486675\" width=\"600\" title=\"\" placeholdersrc=\"https:\/\/static.toiimg.com\/photo\/83033472.cms\" imgsize=\"23456\" resizemode=\"4\" offsetvertical=\"0\" placeholdermsid=\"\" type=\"thumb\" class=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/static.toiimg.com\/thumb\/imgsize-23456,msid-105486675,width-600,resizemode-4\/105486675.jpg\" data-api-prerender=\"true\"\/><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>Meanwhile, Partha Sinha \u2014 Chairman of the <!-- -->Times Shield<!-- --> \u2014 recalled his memories of having watched Ghavri, his \u2018hero\u2019 and other star cricketers in the Times Shield.<br \/>Ghavri, a popular cricketer of the 70s and early 80s, fondly recalled his long association with the Times Shield as a player. <br \/>\u201cIt is a premier cricket tournament in Mumbai. I played for 18 years in the Times Shield. I played for five years for ACC, with greats like Polly Umrigar, Bapu Nadkarni, Ramakant Desai and Dilip Sardesai as my teammates, and later Sunil Gavaskar joined us in 1971. Later on, I switched my job to JK Chemicals. Today, it\u2019s called Raymonds. Vijayapat Singhania and Tiger Pataudi (former India captain) insisted that we form a team and participate in the Times Shield. That side was very competent, and it had players like Mohinder and Surinder Amarnath. Unfortunately, that team was there for only three years.\u201d <br \/>Ghavri\u2019s third and final team was Nirlon Sports Club.<br \/>Ghavri urged the Times Group to start a similar competition for the women cricketers of the city too. <br \/>\u201cMy only appeal to the Times group is to start a women\u2019s Times Shield too. The Indian women\u2019s team is doing extremely well. Every state has a women\u2019s team now. So why not give more and more opportunities to women cricketers in the city, so that they get more job opportunities, more matches and basically more competitive cricket,\u201d Ghavri stressed.<\/div>\n<p><script>!(function(f, b, e, v, n, t, s) {\n    function loadFBEvents(isFBCampaignActive) {\n      if (!isFBCampaignActive) {\n        return;\n      }\n      (function(f, b, e, v, n, t, s) {\n        if (f.fbq) return;\n        n = f.fbq = function() {\n          n.callMethod ? n.callMethod(...arguments) : n.queue.push(arguments);\n        };\n        if (!f._fbq) f._fbq = n;\n        n.push = n;\n        n.loaded = !0;\n        n.version = '2.0';\n        n.queue = [];\n        t = b.createElement(e);\n        t.async = !0;\n        t.defer = !0;\n        t.src = v;\n        s = b.getElementsByTagName(e)[0];\n        s.parentNode.insertBefore(t, s);\n      })(f, b, e, 'https:\/\/connect.facebook.net\/en_US\/fbevents.js', n, t, s);\n      fbq('init', '593671331875494');\n      fbq('track', 'PageView');\n    };<\/p>\n<p>    function loadGtagEvents(isGoogleCampaignActive) {\n      if (!isGoogleCampaignActive) {\n        return;\n      }\n      var id = document.getElementById('toi-plus-google-campaign');\n      if (id) {\n        return;\n      }\n      (function(f, b, e, v, n, t, s) {\n        t = b.createElement(e);\n        t.async = !0;\n        t.defer = !0;\n        t.src = v;\n        t.id = 'toi-plus-google-campaign';\n        s = b.getElementsByTagName(e)[0];\n        s.parentNode.insertBefore(t, s);\n      })(f, b, e, 'https:\/\/www.googletagmanager.com\/gtag\/js?id=AW-877820074', n, t, s);\n    };<\/p>\n<p>    function loadSurvicateJs(allowedSurvicateSections = []){\n      const section =  window.location.pathname.split('\/')[1]\n      const isHomePageAllowed = window.location.pathname === '\/' && allowedSurvicateSections.includes('homepage')<\/p>\n<p>      if(allowedSurvicateSections.includes(section) || isHomePageAllowed){\n        (function(w) {\n          var s = document.createElement('script');\n          s.src=\"https:\/\/survey.survicate.com\/workspaces\/0be6ae9845d14a7c8ff08a7a00bd9b21\/web_surveys.js\";\n          s.async = true;\n          var e = document.getElementsByTagName('script')[0];\n          e.parentNode.insertBefore(s, e);\n        })(window);\n      }<\/p>\n<p>    }<\/p>\n<p>    window.TimesApps = window.TimesApps || {};\n    var TimesApps = window.TimesApps;\n    TimesApps.toiPlusEvents = function(config) {\n      var isConfigAvailable = \"toiplus_site_settings\" in f && \"isFBCampaignActive\" in f.toiplus_site_settings && \"isGoogleCampaignActive\" in f.toiplus_site_settings;\n      var isPrimeUser = window.isPrime;\n      if (isConfigAvailable && !isPrimeUser) {\n        loadGtagEvents(f.toiplus_site_settings.isGoogleCampaignActive);\n        loadFBEvents(f.toiplus_site_settings.isFBCampaignActive);\n        loadSurvicateJs(f.toiplus_site_settings.allowedSurvicateSections);\n      } else {\n        var JarvisUrl=\"https:\/\/jarvis.indiatimes.com\/v1\/feeds\/toi_plus\/site_settings\/643526e21443833f0c454615?db_env=published\";\n        window.getFromClient(JarvisUrl, function(config){\n          if (config) {\n            loadGtagEvents(config?.isGoogleCampaignActive);\n            loadFBEvents(config?.isFBCampaignActive);\n            loadSurvicateJs(config?.allowedSurvicateSections);\n          }\n        })\n      }\n    };\n  })(\n    window,\n    document,\n    'script',\n  );<\/script><br \/>\n<br \/>[ad_2]<br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/timesofindia.indiatimes.com\/sports\/cricket\/news\/when-captain-bishan-singh-bedi-wanted-karsan-ghavri-to-stop-bowling\/articleshow\/105486468.cms\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[ad_1] MUMBAI: It\u2019s been a month since Bishan Singh Bedi has passed away, but the former India captain keeps getting remembered by those who played with him. 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