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Mansur Ali Khan Pataudi
Full
Name:
Mansur Ali Khan Pataudi
Born: January 5,
1941, Bhopal, Madhya Pradesh
Major teams:
India, Delhi, Hyderabad, Oxford University, Sussex
Batting style:
Right-hand bat
Bowling style:
Right-arm medium
 Mansur Ali Khan Pataudi, fondly called Tiger has been an Indian Cricket
player and the Captain of the Indian Cricket team. He has to his credit
the honor of having been the 9th and last Nawab of Pataudi, a small
Princely State which presently is a part of the Haryana state of India.
Early Life
He was born on the 5th of January 1941
in
Bhopal
to the 8th Nawab of Patuadi, Iftikhar Ali Khan. Having studied at Dehradun,
Hertfordshire and Oxford, he became the 9th Nawab of Patuaudi after his
father died in the year 1952.
Test Cricket Debut
Mansur made is Test Cricket debut in the year 1961 with a Test match
played against
England
at Delhi. He scored 13 runs in the match. Very soon after beginning his
Test Cricket career, he lost the vision in his right eye due to a car
accident.
Captaincy
In the year 1962, he was named the Captain of the Indian Cricket team.
Mansur Ali Khan Pataudi, also known as Nawab Pataudi Jr., is considered to
be one of the most successful Captains that the Indian Cricket team has
ever got in its history. He led the Indian team in 40 Test matches, out of
which 12 had been won by the team. Although the winning percentage was not
very high, he is best known for instilling the winning confidence into the
members of hitherto low-down Indian team, and boosting their morale that
led them to further victories.
Mansur is credited as the first Indian Cricket captain that got the team
its much needed first Test victory at an overseas ground. This victory was
achieved in a Test match played against New Zealand in the year 1968. He
is also known for recognizing the fact that Spin Bowling was the forte of
the Indian Cricket team, hence he utilized more of spinners against other
strong teams to get the Indian team the maximum benefit in the Cricket
ground. Apart from being a good Captain, Nawab Patudi Jr. is also known
very well for being a good fielder too. Although his Batting Average was
only 34 runs, he must have yielded way too far better results had he not
been visually impaired with one eye.
Overall Performance
In his Test Cricket career, Mansur Ali Khan played 46 Test matches in
which he scored a total of 2793 runs with 6 centuries and 16
half-centuries. His Batting Average was 34.91 runs and Highest Score was
203 runs not-out. He played his last Test match against
West
Indies
at Mumbai in the year 1975, and scored 18 runs in the match.
He also served as an ICC Match Referee for a period of 3 years between
1993 and 1996. For his extra-ordinary performance as a Cricket player for
India, Mansur Ali Khan had been conferred upon the Arjuna Award in the
year 1964, and was named the Wisden Cricketer of the Year in the year
1968.
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