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Pataudi – Nawab Of Cricket

By Suresh Menon

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About the book

A brilliant anthology of essays on Mansur Ali Khan Pataudi with a foreword by Sharmila Tagore Essays by: Farokh Engineer, Abbas Ali Baig, Bishan Bedi, Mike Brearley, David Woolley, Naseeruddin Shah, Sunil Gavaskar, Ian Chappell, N. Ram, Tony Lewis, Vijay Merchant, M.J. Akbar, Suresh Menon, Ray Robinson, Mudar Patherya, Rajdeep Sardesai, John Woodcock, Rahul Dravid, Robin Marlar, Ted Dexter, Mike Coward, Saba Ali Khan, Soha Ali Khan March 1962: The Indian team to West Indies had just lost its captain, Nari Contractor, to a sickening head injury. A strapping young man, playing only his fourth Test, walked out for the toss with Frank Worrell at Bridgetown. At twenty-one, he was not only the youngest member of the team, but also the youngest to captain a Test side. He had returned to playing cricket only months after an accident that left him with vision in only one eye. For the next decade, Mansur Ali Khan Pataudi, or ‘Tiger’, was the undisputed ‘Nawab’ of Indian cricket, captaining in all but six of the forty-six Tests he played, forging a national identity in a team often divided along regional lines, proving a game-changer by raising the standard of fielding and by unleashing a famed quartet of spinners, the likes of which the world had not seen. In Pataudi: Nawab of Cricket, players, writers, editors, actors, friends and opponents reminisce about their association with Tiger. This extraordinary anthology – brilliantly put together by Suresh Menon, arguably India’s best sports writer and journalist – offers a fascinating portrait of a cricketer and a gentleman whose contribution to Indian cricket went beyond the number of Tests he played and the runs he scored.

Pages: 208

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Language: English

Suresh Menon

Suresh Menon became the youngest sports editor and then one of the youngest editors in the country with Indian Express. He was also sports editor of Gulf News, Dubai and is widely regarded as the most literary of India’s cricket writers. He has edited a book on Sachin, Sachin: Genius Unplugged. A university topper in economics and political science, Menon has reported World Cups since 1987. Currently he is a columnist whose writings-on politics, cricket, literature and sport-appear in publications around the world. Most recently, he has edited a collection of essays, Sachin: Genius Unplugged. He is married to the sculptor Dimpy Menon; they have a son, Tushar, and live in Bangalore.

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