people like tiger,viv,prasanna,chandru,abbas etc were living to play cricket for their country and they have loved their game as much as the people love to play in ipl now.(for money not for country)
Re: Homage
by Kumar Krishna on Sep 23, 2011 11:35 AM
Those days pitches were uncovered, even ur selfish endulkar average would have been 28.50 during those times plus Pataudi the Nawab has to face bowlers like Trueman, Hall Wes , Charles Griffith, Statham, Linwall and Miller and Mckenzie, Sobers etc etc. Don't spit rubbish from mumbai, tell endulkar to play against an average Anderson
Re: Homage
by Lilamber Joshi on Sep 24, 2011 10:43 AM
When Pataudi played in 60's & 70's,average of 30 was considered real good.In those days draw was a prestigious thing and to win a series under him abroad in 1968 was indeed a mile stone.You need to go back 50 years to understand Pataudi.
Re: Homage
by Lilamber Joshi on Sep 24, 2011 10:44 AM
When Pataudi played in 60's & 70's,average of 30 was considered real good.In those days draw was a prestigious thing and to win a series under him abroad in 1968 was indeed a mile stone.You need to go back 50 years to understand Pataudi.
Re: Homage
by Lilamber Joshi on Sep 24, 2011 10:44 AM
When Pataudi played in 60's & 70's,average of 30 was considered real good.In those days draw was a prestigious thing and to win a series under him abroad in 1968 was indeed a mile stone.You need to go back 50 years to understand Pataudi.
Re: Homage
by Lilamber Joshi on Sep 24, 2011 10:45 AM
When Pataudi played in 60's & 70's,average of 30 was considered real good.In those days draw was a prestigious thing and to win a series under him abroad in 1968 was indeed a mile stone.You need to go back 50 years to understand Pataudi.
Re: Homage
by Lilamber Joshi on Sep 24, 2011 10:49 AM
When Pataudi played in 60's & 70's,average of 30 was considered real good.In those days draw was a prestigious thing and to win a series under him abroad in 1968 was indeed a mile stone.You need to go back 50 years to understand Pataudi.
Re: Homage
by Gopal on Sep 29, 2011 06:27 PM
my dear patuadi have to play with one eye. how many of the presesnt day cricketers will play with one eye? even with two eyes they could not play properly. hence please stop commenting on the great player . He is above every one which includes your sachin and dravid etc. Morever, he is a superb fielder par excellence.
Tiger Pataudi undoubtedly a very great cricketer; perhaps no one could match his ability to play test cricket with a single eye.
But at the same time, he is not so a great human being as dubbed by champagne media class and glamour seeking women.
Ironic as it might be, this TIGER was a real TIGER too in his non-cricketing life; shooting blackbacks just as Tigers devour deers and blackbucks.
The same Tiger went into hiding in Delhi hiding in his friends houses and evaded Police when there are arrest warrants against him.
He was a convict! No! Not just an accused, he was a convict of criminal activities.
Yet I am shocked to see him on Burkha Dutts NDTV channels sitting on the front row of her famous or notorious We, The People Prgrammes, doling out sagacious advice on all non cricketing matters about morality corruption etc.
I wonder what the Bishnoi community would be saying on his demise.
He hunted and shot animals as if they had trespassed his personal fiefdom.
Maneka Gandhi rightly snubbed Sharmila (wonder how much Sharam she had) Tagore when she was repeatedly provoked by Sharmila and her family stating that Sharmila Tagores entire family is out on bail. Saif too was a convict of crimes.
Re: BLACKBUCKS AND OPPONENT CRICKET TEAMS HEAVE A SIGH OF RELIEF!
by Ananya Gupta on Sep 23, 2011 10:33 AM
Get Real ! This guy was a cricketing legend on the field and a true gentleman outside ! While one cannot support his passion for hunting but that does not give us a freedom of hurling mud at him at any and every oppurtunity.
Iam a cricket lover I never miss any cricket matches being played all over the world During his days it was a feast to watch his game and his love for the game and team mates
One of the finest gentlemen and the great personality of the cricket world… left us with a huge total of memories… we run and run for the rest of our life.. but can not avoid follow-on..
It’s too early to go in the pavilion.. o ‘Tiger’... The place of cover and extra cover made for you o ‘Tiger’ We miss you all our dear captain Mansoor Ali Khan ‘Patoudi’
An Obituary To One Of India's Greatest Cricketing Sons -MAK ''TIGER''PATAUDI The Word ''Legend'' and ''Great'' are used very Loosely and often Nowadays, but if You can actually consider it as Apt on using those Words then There is no better or Bigger Person than '' Tiger'' Pataudi. An amazing Batsmen , a Fantastic Captain and a Feilder to behold (The cricketers i have spoken to, and the articles i have read , say Jonty Rhodes would have had a competitor ), he instilled tremendous confidence in the ability and capacity in our cricketers who played under him, made them believe that we can beat any body any where,that we were as Good as any body out there, taught them to play to their strengths, fight for their rights, inch for inch and at the same time enjoy the Game. To Score 6 Test Hundreds including an unbeaten Double Hundred and 14 Fifties with one eye has to be Special. 4 Incidents I have read , spoken and would like to share... 1)Sir Donald Bradman left his permanent seat in the Balcony to advice players to watch his innings of 75 and 85 in Melbourne Australia , an 85 Yard Boundry on 1 eye and 1 leg (he had a severe Hamstring Injury), where he was tonking bowler's like Alan Connolly and Graham Mckenzie one bounce into the Boundry. The DON it seems told the AUGUST AUDIENCE that they might never watch a better innings again.(Colin Milburn , Lawrence Rowe and Saba Karim all failed with bad eye sight, and he played with one eye choosing the darker side of the ball ) 2)When he
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?
