Remove my name, angry Bedi quits DDCA

Spin legend Bishan Singh Bedi has asked the Delhi and District Cricket Association(DDCA)  to remove his name from the spectators’ stand at the Firoz Shah Kotla fround,named after him in 2017. He is reportedly lambasted the DDCA  deciding to install a statue of its late former President Arun Jaitley at the Feroz Shah Kotla ground, Lashing out at the DDCA  culture, which he alleged promotes nepotism and puts “administrators ahead of cricketers”, Bedi also quit membership of the body.

He made the demand in a scathing letter addressed to DDCA President Rohan Jaitley. 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. “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 said. Bedi said it pains him that even the current leadership follows the culture of “fawning obeisance”.

Jaitley was DDCA president for 14 years, from 1999 to 2013, before quitting cricket administration. The body plans to have a six-foot statue of him installed at the Kotla to honour his memory. DDCA had named one of the stands after Bedi in November 2017 along with Mohinder Amarnath.