Mansur Ali Khan, the Nawab of Pataudi, an aristocratic cricketer, a man of dignity, who could also laugh at himself. I remember his comment on being a celebrity. "I could not help being born a Nawab, or a cricketer. But I could help being married to a famous film star" (and that's why he was a celebrity). He lived to see his son succeed as a film star. To a question, after his accident, which cost him an eye, as to when he realised that he could still play cricket, he replied, toingue-in-cheek, 'When I saw the English bowling". He was too much a man of dignity to sully his hands with the kind of 'chamchagiri' that was called for by cricket administration. That's why, despite being one of the shrewdest observers of the game, he was never called to do duty, as an official, after he retired from cricket.
Re: Re: RIP, Noob
by Ashok Lulla on Aug 16, 2012 05:51 PM
Imaging a man of his stature being invited to officiate only as a Match Refree. They could not bring themselves to give him a bigger role, as he was above them: in lineage, in personality and in performance as a cricketer. Incidentally, did they settle his dues expeditiously?
Mansur Ali Khan, the Nawab of Pataudi, an aristocratic cricketer, a man of dignity, who could also laugh at himself. I remember his comment on being a celebrity. "I could not help being born a Nawab, or a cricketer. But I could help being married to a famous film star" (and that's why he was a celebrity). He lived to see his son succeed as a film star. To a question, after his accident, which cost him an eye, as to when he realised that he could still play cricket, he replied, toingue-in-cheek, 'When I saw the English bowling". He was too much a man of dignity to sully his hands with the kind of 'chamchagiri' that was called for by cricket administration. That's why, despite being one of the shrewdest observers of the game, he was never called to do duty, as an official, after he retired from cricket.
Mansur Ali Khan, the Nawab of Pataudi, an aristocratic cricketer, a man of dignity, who could also laugh at himself. I remember his comment on being a celebrity. "I could not help being born a Nawab, or a cricketer. But I could help being married to a famous film star" (and that's why he was a celebrity). He lived to see his son succeed as a film star. To a question, after his accident, which cost him an eye, as to when he realised that he could still play cricket, he replied, toingue-in-cheek, 'When I saw the English bowling". He was too much a man of dignity to sully his hands with the kind of 'chamchagiri' that was called for by cricket administration. That's why, despite being one of the shrewdest observers of the game, he was never called to do duty, as an official, after he retired from cricket.
