Coming down heavily on the Delhi and District Cricket Association (DDCA) for deciding to install a statue of its former President Arun Jaitley at the Feroz Shah Kotla ground, spin legend Bishan Singh Bedi has asked the cricket body to remove his name from the spectators' stand, named after him in 2017. He has also renounced the membership of DDCA.
Bedi, 74, in a scathing letter to DDCA's current president Rohan Jaitley, son of late Arun Jaitely, on Tuesday night, said, "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. 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. "
Lashing out at the DDCA culture, which he alleged promotes nepotism and puts "administrators ahead of cricketers", Bedi wrote, "Sporting arenas need sporting role models. The place of the administrators is in their glass cabins."
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