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When Tiger Pataudi carved out two epics under trying conditions with one good eye and one good leg!

When Tiger Pataudi carved out two epics under trying conditions with one good eye and one good leg!

The second Test between India and Australia at the Melbourne Cricket Ground between December 30, 1967, and January 3, 1968, is still remembered for Tiger Pataudi’s heroics with the bat that boggles the mind. H Natarajan brings out the degree of difficulty of Pataudi’s innings of 75 and 85 against unimaginable odds.

H Natarajan, Mansur Ali Khan Pataudi, Moments in history, Tiger Pataudi, India tour of Australia 1967-68, Pataudi's 75 and 85 at Melbourne in 1967-68, Pataudi's car accident, Ian Chappell, Imran Khan, Graham McKenzie

January 3 2013, 12:06 pm

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Tiger Pataudi - the hands-off editor

Tiger Pataudi - the hands-off editor

By Vivek Sengupta Tiger Pataudi and I were colleagues: In the sense that an editor and a junior hack working for the same publishing house could call themselves colleagues. Pataudi was for long years the Editor of Sportsworld, a publication of the ABP Group. And I worked during different times for New Delhi magazine, Sunday magazine and The Telegraph, all publications of the same publ

Mansur Ali Khan Pataudi, Vivek Sengupta, Kapil Dev, Sportsworld, ABG Group, India

September 23 2011, 7:01 pm

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Tiger Pataudi was the father of Indian fielding

Tiger Pataudi was the father of Indian fielding

ByRajesh Ramaswamy Much has been said about Tiger Pataudi’s leadership qualities, his wit and charisma. But if there’s one thing I’ll remember him for, it is for making dirt honourable! Leadership and social graces are, after all, part of the DNA of those who are ‘to the manor born’. One tends to notice these things in the nobility only by their absence, and the Nawab of Pataudi had, if anything, a surfeit of the ingredients that make royalty a different kettle of fish.

Mansur Ali Khan Pataudi, India, Rajesh Ramaswamy

September 24 2011, 1:07 pm

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