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Lambasting the Delhi and District Cricket Association (DDCA) for deciding to put in a statue of its former President Arun Jaitley on the Feroz Shah Kotla floor, spin legend Bishan Singh Bedi has requested the physique to take away his identify from the spectators’ stand, named after him in 2017. Lashing out on the DDCA tradition, which he alleged promotes nepotism and places “administrators ahead of cricketers”, Bedi additionally renounced his membership of the physique. He made the demand in a scathing letter addressed to DDCA President Rohan Jaitley, the son of the late politician Arun Jaitley, who was a minister within the BJP-led NDA authorities and died final 12 months owing to a number of well being points.
“I pride myself as a man of immense tolerance and patience…but all that I’m afraid, is running out. DDCA has truly tested me and forced me to take this drastic action,” Bedi wrote in his letter.
“So, Mr President I request you to remove my name from the stand named after me with immediate effect. Also, I hereby renounce my DDCA membership,” Bedi wrote in his letter.
Jaitley was DDCA president for 14 years, from 1999 to 2013, earlier than quitting cricket administration. The physique plans to have a six-foot statue of him put in on the Kotla to honour his reminiscence.
DDCA had named one of many stands after Bedi in November 2017 together with Mohinder Amarnath.
“I’ve taken this decision with sufficient deliberations. I’m not prone to disregard the honour that was bestowed upon me. But as we all know with honour comes responsibility. They feted me for the total respect and integrity with which I played the game,” Bedi wrote.
“And now I’m returning the honour just to assure them all that four decades after my retirement, I still retain those values.”
Putting his determination in context, Bedi wrote that he was by no means a fan of Arun Jaitley’s working model and at all times opposed any determination that he didn’t agree with.
“My reservations about the choice of people he hand-picked to run the day to day affairs of DDCA is well known. I remember walking out from a meeting at his residence whence he was unable to throw out a rowdy element using terribly foul language,” Bedi wrote.
“I think I was too head strong..too Old school..& too proud an Indian cricketer to be co-opted into the corrupt darbar of sycophants Arun Jaitley mustered at the Kotla during his stewardship.”
Bedi stated it pains him that even the present management follows the tradition of “fawning obeisance”.
“After the Feroze Shah Kotla was named hurriedly & most undeservingly after Late Arun Jaitley my reaction then was maybe somehow good sense might prevail to keep Kotla sacrosanct,” he wrote.
“How wrong I was. Now I gather a statue of Late Arun Jaitley is going to be installed at the Kotla. I’m not at all enamoured with the thought of a statue of Arun Jaitley coming up at Kotla.”
Bedi stated because the late administrator was primarily a politician, it is the Parliament which must “remember him for posterity.”
“This is not a rhetorical assessment but a factual appraisal of his time at DDCA. Take my word, failures don’t need to be celebrated with plaques & busts. They need to be forgotten,” he wrote.
Citing examples of how nice cricketers had been honoured in in different nations, Bedi stated, “People who surround you presently will never inform you that it’s WG Grace at Lord’s..Sir Jack Hobbs at the Oval..Sir Donald Bradman at the SCG…Sir Garfield Sobers at Barbados & Shane Warne of recent vintage at the MCG…who adorn their cricket stadia with the Spirit of Cricket never out of place.
“…Sporting arenas want sporting position fashions. The place of the directors is of their glass cabins.
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“Since DDCA doesn’t understand this Universal cricket culture, I need to walk out of it. I can’t be part of a stadium which has got its priorities so grossly wrong & where administrators get precedence over the cricketers.
“Please convey down my identify from the stand with quick impact.”
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