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September 22, 2011
Mansur Ali Khan Pataudi, who won the eye deteriorated to become a visionary and a pioneer in the Indian test team captain, died at the age of 70 suffered from Delhi interstitial lung disease. He leaves his wife, Sharmila Tagore, son Saif Ali Khan and his two daughters, Saba and Soha Ali Khan. Tagore, Saif and Soha are well-known actors in Indian cinema.
Pataudi career timeline
December 13, 1961: Makes his debut against England at Delhi, the results of 13
January 10, 1962: Results maiden century in his third trial, 113 against England at Chennai.
23 MAR 1962: Lead India, his fourth Test, Barbados, and at age 21 is the youngest captain in Test cricket.
From 12 to 13 February 1964: Construction of a score career-best, not by 203 against England at Delhi.
February-March 1968: Leads India to test their foreign policy in the first, in Dunedin. India will win a series for the first time in a row, beating New Zealand 3-1.
January 23, 1975: Plays his final test, scoring nine of each innings against West Indies in Mumbai.
Pataudi played 46 tests between 1961 and 1975 and was probably the greatest captain of India. He showed leadership in his fourth attempt, when he was 21, in Barbados in 1962, because the regular captain Nari Contractor was hospitalized after being hit in the head by Charlie Griffith. Pataudi was the youngest captain in test, a record that stood until 2004. He led India in 40 Tests and had a successful career in spite of the decreased vision in his right eye that was injured in a car accident. He was also captain of Sussex and University of Oxford.
India has won nine races in Pataudi, and it was during his tenure as the team began to believe they could succeed. Called multi-strategy roulette because he believed that India needs to play to their strengths and used it for his first Test victory abroad in Dunedin in 1968. India has continued to record his first victory in the series, beating New Zealand 3-1. Pataudi was the Wisden cricketer of the year in that year.
Pataudi scored 2793 runs at an average of 35 and made six centuries, the largest of which was an unbeaten 203 against England at Delhi in 1964. But the rate of many 75 years, scored on one leg with one eye on Australia in Melbourne in 1967-1968 as its best. Pataudi retired in 1975 after the Caribbean tour "of India. After retirement, served as a Pataudi match referee from 1993 to 1996, serving in both events and ten ODIs, but largely stayed away from the administration of cricket.
Pataudi was the ninth and the last Nawab of Pataudi until 1971, when the Indian government has abolished the rights Constitution.He Real Change through 26 was also director of the Sports World, now buried in a magazine of cricket, and television commentator in 1980, but gradually withdrew from active, while remaining a strong voice in Indian cricket.
Since 2007, the two test series between India and England, is a question the Pataudi Trophy, named after his family for their contribution to Anglo-Indian cricket. Father of Pataudi, Iftikhar Ali Khan, a representative of England and India tests. Pataudi was sick due to return to England this summer, after the presentation of the trophy to Andrew Strauss Pataudi at the end of the four test series.
Pataudi was also a consultant to the BCCI in 2007 and part of the first Board of Directors of IPL, but refused to continue in the role in October 2010 when the BCCI has made significant changes in the league after the dismissal of Lalit Modi as chairman. While the wave of controversy has increased, Pataudi was the only member of the Board to accept the love of the body, saying it "failed in its role of overseeing the management of the IPL and be more questioning of decisions. "In a powerful speech at the 2010 conference at Raj Singh Dungarpur Memorial Cricket Club of India, Pataudi said it was the duty of the BCCI to take the moral leadership of party.
In April of this year, also took Pataudi BCCI to court in April this year, claiming the Board had breached its contract with him when he was a consultant and a member of the Board of 'IPL.
The opening ceremony of the 2011 Champions League Twenty20 today, Ravi Shastri called for a minute of silence in honor of Pataudi.
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