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Bishan Bedi interviewed by David Rayvern Allen



Reference
MCC/AAL/3/163
Date:
2006-03-19
Level of description
item
Extent
1 CD: 28 minutes 42 seconds
Part of
David Rayvern Allen Audio Archive (MCC/AAL/3)
Scope and Content
1 CD, Bishan Bedi, cricketer, interviewed by David Rayvern Allen. The CD consists of 8 tracks.

Track 1: [0:00-0:26] Introduction by Rayvern Allen, [0:27-0:54] Bedi talks about his bowling action, [0:55-1:47] Bedi talks about growing up in Amritsar and calls taking up cricket fate, [1:48-2:19] Bedi talks about always being a slow bowler and sometimes enjoyed batting, [2:20-2:34] Interview is briefly interrupted, [2:35-4:11]] Bedi talks about being one of the great quartet of Indian spin bowlers.

Track 2: [0:00-1:21] Bedi talks about his bowling plans to a batsman, [1:22-2:10] Bedi talks big hitting in the present game and puts this down do modern bats, [2:11-2:54] Bedi talks the making larger boundaries to aid spin bowlers, [2:55-3:52] Bedi talks about modern captains being worried about batsmen scoring heavily off spin bowlers.

Track 3: [0:00-0:36] Bedi talks about preferring to watch a world class spinner than a mediocre pace bowler, [0:37-1:19] Bedi talks about the captaincy of Tiger Pataudi and Ajit Wadekar, [1:20-2:12] Bedi talks about the fielding of Eknath Solkar and a Delhi fielder collapsing from being struck on the head fielding at short-leg, [2:13-2:57] Bedi talks about being against intimidatory fast bowling and the spirit of cricket, [2:58-4:07] Bedi talks about standing up for principles and playing honest, [4:08-4:41] Bedi talks about match fixing, [4:42-5:29] Bedi talks about his views on chucking.

Track 4: [0:00-1:01] Bedi talks about Muttiah Muralitharan and chucking being prevalent in modern game, [1:02-2:08] Bedi talks about the ICC being based in Dubai, [2:09-3:36] Bedi talks about cricket being more than a religion to him, how it forges personality and his love for cricket writing, [3:37-4:32] Bedi talks about his hopes of international cricket returning to the Brabourne Stadium.

Track 5: [0:00-0:54] Bedi talks about Lord's Cricket Ground, [0:55-1:15] Bedi talks about never changing his bowling wherever he played in the world, [1:16-1:48] Bedi talks about India winning three series in a row as the highlight of the his career, [1:49-2:07] Bedi talks about not following statistics.

Tracxk 6: [0:00-0:36 Robin Marlar briefly interrupts the interview to say watching Bedi bowl to Barry Richards was the best hour of cricket he ever saw.

Track 7: [0:00-1:30] Bedi talks about being cricket manager of India, how coaches are now copying what he initially tried and too much cricket being played, [1:31-2:18] Bedi talks about his view on what makes a good cricketer and what makes a good administrator, [2:19-3:37] Rayvern Allen explains the audio archive to Bedi.

Track 8: [0:00-0:28] Rayvern Allen and Bedi talk about the audio archive, [0:29-2:58] Bedi talks about his time as captain of India and his complaints over excessive bouncers, [2:59-3:43] Bedi talks about his views on umpires, [3:44-4:19 Bedi says he would like to be remembered for his integrity like Don Bradman.




A back-up copy of this CD is included.
Associations
Bishan Singh Bedi
David Rayvern Allen
Srinivasaraghavan Venkataraghavan
Erapalli Anantharao Srinivas Prasanna
Bhagwat Subramany Chandrasekhar
Junior Nawab of Pataudi
Ajit Laxman Wadekar
Muttiah Muralitharan
Eknath Dhondu Solkar
International Cricket Council
Robin Geoffrey Marlar
Barry Anderson Richards
Harold Dennis Bird
David Robert Shepherd
Sir Donald George Bradman
Subject
cricket in India, Spin Bowlers, spin bowling, Amritsar, Punjab, India, Indian cricketers, captains, Fast Bowling, Spirit of Cricket, throwing, Brabourne Stadium, Lord's Cricket Ground, captaincy, umpires, umpiring
Conditions governing access
Open
Language
English
Size
1 CD: 28 minutes 42 seconds
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