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.
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