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Pataudi, Gavaskar, Shastri should have resigned after IPL controversy: Bedi

Updated on: 02 May,2010 03:19 AM IST |
Agencies |

Former India captain Bishan Singh Bedi launched a powerful attack on the Indian Premier League's governing council for the mess the tournament finds itself in

Former India skipper Bishan Singh Bedi

Bedi told TV personality Karan Thapar on CNN-IBN that he thought former captains MAK Pataudi, Sunil Gavaskar and Ravi Shastri should have resigned after the controversy over the Kochi franchise and irregularities in team ownership emerged.

Not known to be diplomatic, Bedi also stressed that the three captains were the only ones on the council who were paid. Asked by Thapar whether the three former captains made a mistake by lending their names to the IPL, Bedi said: "They are very quiet now. They are not expressing themselves at all. Tiger (Pataudi) has said that the governing council is responsible, but they are still there. No one has been moved." Bedi also attacked suspended IPL commissioner Lalit Modi, who he called a "spoilt brat." He couldn't comprehend how Modi could toss the coin for Tendulkar and Dhoni before the IPL final recently. "Modi has damaged Indian cricket very badly. I must say, it was not the need, but the greed that had taken everybody. Without knowing anything about the grass-root level of the game, look what he was running -- a cricket tournament," said Bedi.

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