Nawab Mohammad Mansoor Ali Khan Pataudi (05 January 1941 – 22 September 2011; called Tiger Pataudi) was an Indian cricketer and former captain of the Indian cricket team.
Pataudi was named India’s cricket captain there at age of 21 and has already been dubbed “one of (the) finest” players in the country’s history. Commentator John Arlott and former England captain and contemporary Ted Dexter both referred to Pataudi as the “greatest fielder in the world” of his day.
Iftikhar Ali Khan Pataudi, the last monarch of the princely state of Pataudi during the British Raj, was Mansur Ali Khan’s father. Pataudi succeeded his father in acquiring a privy purse, some rights, as well as the title “Nawab of Pataudi” under terms agreed upon when princely states were merged into independent India following his father’s death in 1952.
Minto Circle in Aligarh as well as Welham Boys’ School in Dehradun (Uttarakhand), Lockers Park Prep School in Hertfordshire (where he was coached by Frank Woolley), as well as Winchester College was among his educational institutions. He studied Arabic and French at Oxford’s Balliol College.
On Mansoor’s eleventh birthday in 1952, his father died whilst practising polo in Delhi, and Mansoor became the ninth Nawab. Despite the fact that the princely state of was amalgamated with India when the British Raj ended in 1947, he retained the title until the Government of India abolished the rights by the 26th amendment to the constitution in 1971.
Throughout his cricket career, Mansoor was known as Jr., a right-handed batsman as well as a right-arm medium-pace bowler. At Winchester, he was indeed a schoolboy batting prodigy who relied on his sharp eyes to attack the bowling.
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