Mansoor Ali Khan Pataudi nawab | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Nawab of Pataudi | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Nawab of Pataudi | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Titular | 1952–1971 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Predecessor | Iftikhar Ali Khan Pataudi | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Head of the Pataudi dynasty | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Tenure | 1971-2011 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Successor | Saif Ali Khan | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Born | Mohammad Mansoor Ali Khan Pataudi 5 January 1941 Bhopal, Bhopal State, British India (present-day Madhya Pradesh, India) | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Died | 22 September 2011 New Delhi, Delhi, India | (aged 70)|||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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House | Pataudi | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Father | Iftikhar Ali Khan Pataudi | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Mother | Sajida Sultan | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Religion | Islam | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Occupation | Cricketer | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Cricket information | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Batting | Right-handed | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Bowling | Right-arm medium | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Test debut (cap 104) | 13 December 1961 v England | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Last Test | 23 January 1975 v West Indies | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Domestic team information | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Years | Team | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
1957–1970 | Sussex | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
1960–1964 | Delhi | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
1965–1975 | Hyderabad | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Source: ESPNcricinfo, 27 September 2011 |
Nawab Mohammad Mansoor Ali Khan Pataudi (also known as Mansur Ali Khan or M. A. K. Pataudi; 5 January 1941 – 22 September 2011; nicknamed Tiger Pataudi) was an Indian cricketer and a former captain of the Indian cricket team.
Pataudi was appointed India's cricket captain at the age of 21, and described as "one of (its) greatest".[1] Pataudi was also called the "best fielder in the world" of his time by commentator John Arlott and former England captain and contemporary, Ted Dexter.[2]
Mansur Ali Khan was the son of Iftikhar Ali Khan Pataudi, the last ruler of the princely state of Pataudi during the British Raj. After the death of his father in 1952, Pataudi succeeded him in receiving a privy purse, certain privileges, and the use of the title "Nawab of Pataudi" under terms accepted earlier when princely states were absorbed into independent India.[3] However, all were ended in 1971 by the 26th Amendment to the Constitution of India.[4][5][6] He received the C. K. Nayudu Lifetime Achievement Award in 2001, the highest honour bestowed by BCCI on a former player.[7]
The crucial document was the Instrument of Accession by which rulers ceded to the legislatures of India or Pakistan control over defence, external affairs, and communications. In return for these concessions, the princes were to be guaranteed a privy purse in perpetuity and certain financial and symbolic privileges such as exemption from customs duties, the use of their titles, the right to fly their state flags on their cars, and to have police protection. ... By December 1947 Patel began to pressure the princes into signing Merger Agreements that integrated their states into adjacent British Indian provinces, soon to be called states or new units of erstwhile princely states, most notably Rajasthan, Patiala and East Punjab States Union, and Matsya Union (Alwar, Bharatpur, Dholpur and Karaulli).
Through a constitutional amendment passed in 1971, Indira Gandhi stripped the princes of the titles, privy purses and regal privileges which her father's government had granted.
Although the Indian states were alternately requested or forced into union with either India or Pakistan, the real death of princely India came when the Twenty-sixth Amendment Act (1971) abolished the princes' titles, privileges, and privy purses.