He once sent cricketing circles in a tizzy by criticising Sunil Gavaskar in an interview. Though Bedi was known to call a spade a spade, sometimes he sounded downright bitter. Bedi had remained embroiled in the DDCA politics for long. DDCA had named one of the stands after Bedi in November 2017 along with another former India player Mohinder Amarnath. Jaitley was DDCA president for 14 years, from 1999 to 2013, before quitting cricket administration. He wrote a letter to the DDCA, lambasting it for installing a statue of its late former president Arun Jaitley at the Kotla.
In 2020, he had threatened to take legal action against the Delhi and District Cricket Association (DDCA) if his name was not removed from a spectators' stand at the Feroz Shah Kotla ground with immediate effect. IPL is the Vidya Balan of Indian cricket - entertainment, entertainment, entertainment."īedi, essentially a rebel, was large-hearted, candid and quite outspoken. But we are not interested in preserving our own legacy. "Indian Premier League is not my cup of tea," he had said on another occasion.
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