Published 18:59 IST, May 4th 2020

Javed Miandad boasts of taking Bishen Singh Bedi 'to the cleaners' during 1978 Pak tour

Former Pakistan captain Javed Miandad recently took to his YouTube channel and boasted about his team's success against Bishen Singh Bedi and co. in 1978.

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Former Pakistan cricket captain and coach Javed Miandad made his international debut in 1976. He represented his country in 124 Tests and 233 ODIs to score over 16,000 international runs. Javed Miandad is widely recognised as one of greatest batsmen Pakistan has ever produced. Quite recently, 62-year old took to his YouTube channel and recalled a trip to India when he was still relatively new in international circuit.

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Javed Miandad claims Pakistan robbed India on ir 1978-79 tour

Bishen Singh Bedi-Indian team toured Pakistan to play three Test matches and three ODIs. Pakistan won both series convincingly with batsmen like Javed Miandad and Zaheer Abbas scoring heaps of runs against Indian spin attack. On his channel, Javed Miandad said that spinners like Bishen Singh Bedi, B. S. Chandrasekhar and E. A. S. Prasanna were India’s strength at time and yet y were “taken to cleaners” by Pakistani batsmen.

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Javed Miandad furr claimed that ir players “robbed” Indian spinners by scoring runs against m throughout tour. He also recalled an incident from first Test of tour involving Zaheer Abbas and B. S. Chandrasekhar. He said that Zaheer Abbas requested him in match to tackle Chandrasekhar as former was struggling a bit against spinner.

Meanwhile, Abbas had problems in scoring runs against Bishen Singh Bedi and E. A. S. Prasanna from or end. Javed Miandad added that he later requested his batting partner to allow him in scoring some runs as well by using his feet against spin bowlers. He requested to refuse to a single by Abbas off last ball of over and he began tackling or spinners as well.

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Both batsmen scored big hundreds in game as well as throughout series. While Pakistan declared at 503-8, India scored 462-9 declared on back of GR Viswanath’s 145 and fighting fifties from Sunil Gavaskar and Dilip Vengsarkar. match ended in a draw but Pakistan won Test series 2-0 and Zaheer Abbas and Sunil Gavaskar emerged as leading run-scorers for ir respective nations on that tour.