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The art of Bedi: Suresh Menon on the bowler, the man, and the biography
81 All Out - A Cricket Podcast
English - July 22, 2021 05:56 - 1 hour - 125 MB - ★★★★★ - 22 ratingsSports Homepage Download Apple Podcasts Google Podcasts Overcast Castro Pocket Casts RSS feed
In this episode, we chat with the veteran cricket writer Suresh Menon on one of India's greatest cricketers - Bishan Bedi
Suresh talks about his early impressions of Bedi and the spin quartet, and explores his relationship with Bedi as a fan, a cricket writer, a biographer and a friend.
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Talking Points:
The late 1960s and the inception of the spin quartet
Bedi the prodigy - born to bowl spin
Bedi under Pataudi and Wadekar - the blossoming of an artist
Suresh's 2011 biography - Bishan: portrait of an artist
The craft of left-arm spin - Bedi's digital manipulations
Why Bedi v Pras might have been more logical than Venkat v Pras
'No Bedi, no Test'
The Vaseline affair in 1976
Bedi's knack for speaking his mind (and getting into trouble)
Bedi - the father of cricket in North Zone and Delhi
His various post-playing avatars - but always calling a spade a spade
Participants:
Suresh Menon (@surmenon)
Siddhartha Vaidyanathan (@sidvee)
Mahesh Sethuraman (@cornerd)
Related:
Bishan: Portrait of an Artist - Suresh Menon's 2011 biography of Bedi - Amazon.com
Graceful and gracious - Suresh Menon on his favourite cricketer, Bishan Bedi - ESPNcricinfo.com
'I was obsessed with bowling' -Bishan Bedi interview - The Cricket Monthly
Never a cricketer of the year - Mike Brearley on Bishan Bedi -Wisden Almanack
Bedi v Kim Hughes - 1977, Sydney - YouTube.com
Sydney Test 1977, Day 4 - Jai Galagali's channel - YouTube.com
Bedi interview with Karan Thapar, 2000 - YouTube.com
Feeling is the Thing that Happens in 1000th of a Second - Christian Ryan - Amazon.com
From Bedi to Kohli: a cricket writer's journey - 81allout podcast with Vijay Lokapally