Former India captain and country's greatest ever left-arm spinner?Bishan?Singh?Bedi?died on Monday after prolonged illness.
He was 77 years old and is survived by his wife Anju, son Angad and daughter Neha.
Born in Amritsar in 1946,?Bedi?played 67 Tests for India and took 266 wickets with 14 five wicket hauls and one 10-wicket haul.
He was the part of Indian cricket's golden quartet of spinners, others being Erapalli Prasanna, Bhagwat Chadrasekhar and Srinivas Venkataraghavan, who formed the core of India's bowling unit for more than a decade between 1966 and 1978.
Bedi?was briefly the manager of the Indian cricket team in 1990 during tours of New Zealand and England.
He was also a national selector and mentor to many talented spinners like Maninder?Singh?and Murali Kartik, who all swore by his technical insight.
As soon as the news of passing away of the legend came in people from the cricket fraternity started sending tributes.?
With Inputs from PTI