Personality Clashes With Gavaskar
Bishan Bedi’s tendency to never hold back was most visible during his playing days. He never got along with two strong personalities and both incidentally from Mumbai; Ajit Wadekar and Sunil Gavaskar. In the 1970s, parochialism was at its peak in Indian cricket and so where you came from defined your place in the sport. Bedi had open disagreements with captain Wadekar on the 1974 England tour.
Bedi and Gavaskar never saw eye-to-eye on a number of topics. They had immense respect for each other’s cricketing abilities, so much so that Bedi named his first-born son from his first wife from Australia, Gavasinder Singh. But like it happens with two champion cricketers, their personalities varied and so they never got along.
Bedi’s playing days…