One cannot sum up a life that was larger than life. Or reduce a towering sporting presence to figures and milestones, which are no doubt important and of which there will be plenty recounted now.
Suffice to say Bishan Singh Bedi had a personality that transcended the modern confines of the great game. There was astute artistry and inscrutable genius in his slow left-arm orthodox spin. It beggars belief that a cricketer can have such absolute mastery over his craft. He still owns that genre of bowling, and probably always will.
