ARTICLES BY V Ramnarayan

Bishan Singh Bedi’s biggest contribution to the sport is as a coach

It is one of the lovely ironies of modern cricket that great cricket writers can wax lyrical about both fast and slow bowling. Whoever said Michael Holding’s bowling action was "whispering death" was perhaps a greater wordsmith than the man who described Bishan Bedi’s as "poetry in motion"; both, the speed merchant and the spin wizard tended to evoke superlatives in those who watched them in their prime.