Bedi, Viswanath yet to get BCCI invite for 500th Test

NEW DELHI: Former India captains Bishan Singh Bedi and Gundappa Viswanath are yet to get an invite from the BCCI for country’s historic 500th Test match against

Published on: Sep 21, 2016, 07:25:19 IST

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NEW DELHI: Former India captains Bishan Singh Bedi and Gundappa Viswanath are yet to get an invite from the BCCI for country’s historic 500th Test match against the visiting New Zealand side. With the Test match starting on Thursday, neither 69-year-old Bedi who has led India in 22 Tests nor Viswanath, who captained in two Tests have received any written or telephonic communication from the Board. “I am not at all annoyed about it. At this stage of my life, I can’t get bitter about all these things,” Bedi told PTI. Similarly when Viswanath, who captained India in the famous ‘Jubilee Test’ against England in 1980 was asked, he said: “I haven’t received any invitation”. Then he had a query: “But I captained India in only two Test matches. Do I qualify to be invited?”.

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