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Mansur Ali Khan Pataudi, who overcame an impair eye to become a prophet and revolutionary captain of the Indian Test team, has died in Dehli at the age of 70. He was distress from interstitial lung disease.
He is survived by his wife Sharmila Tagore, his son Saif Ali Khan and his two daughters Soha and Saba Ali Khan. Tagore, Saif and Soha are well-known actors in India's film industry.
Pataudi played 46 Tests between 1961 and 1975 and was debatably India's most captains. He was known the leadership in his fourth Test, when he was 21, in Barbados in 1962, because the regular captain Nari service provider was in hospital after getting hit on the head by Charlie Griffith.
Pataudi was the youngest Test captain, a record that stood until 2004. He led India in 40 Tests and had a winning career despite impair vision in his right eye, which was damaged in a car accident. He also captained Sussex and Oxford University.
India won nine Tests under Pataudi and it was during his term that the team began to believe it could succeed. He advocates the multi-spinner plan because he believed India wanted to play to their strength and used it to achieve their first overseas Test win, in Dunedin in 1968. India went on to record their first away series victory, beating New Zealand 3-1. Pataudi was the Wisden Cricketer of the Year that year.
Pataudi scored 2793 runs at an average of 35 and made six centuries, the main of which was a winning 203 next to England in Delhi in 1964. However, many rate his 75, scored on one leg with one eye, alongside Australia in Melbourne in 1967-68 as his finest.
Pataudi retire in 1975 after West Indies' tour of India. After retirement, Pataudi served as a match referee between 1993 and 1996, officiate in two Tests and ten ODIs, but mainly stayed away from cricket administration.
Pataudi was the ninth and last Nawab of Pataudi until 1971, when the Indian governments abolish royal entitlements through the 26th Amendment to the Constitution. He was also the editor of Sportsworld, the now obsolete cricket magazine, and a television commentator in the 1980s but slowly withdrew from an active role, though he remains a strong voice in Indian cricket.
Since 2007, bilateral Test series between India and England have been contest for the Pataudi Trophy, named after his family for their contribution to Anglo-Indian cricket. Pataudi's father, Iftikhar Ali Khan, represent both England and India in Tests. Pataudi had taken ill since his come back from England this summer after present the Pataudi Trophy to Andrew Strauss at the end of the four-Test series.
Pataudi was also a advisor to the BCCI from 2007 and part of the first IPL governing council but refused to carry on in the role in October 2010, when the BCCI made important changes to the league following the sacking of Lalit Modi as its chairman.
As the spate of controversy increased, Pataudi was the only member of the governing council to admit the body's responsibility, saying it "failed in its role to monitor the IPL's administration and be more questioning of decisions taken." In a forceful speech at the 2010 Raj Singh Dungarpur monument lecture at the Cricket Club of India, Pataudi had said it was the responsibility of the BCCI to take moral leadership of the game.
In April this year, Pataudi also took the BCCI to court in April this year, claim the board had not abided by its agreement with him while he was a advisor as well as a member of the IPL governing council.
At the opening ritual of the 2011 Champions League Twenty20 today, Ravi Shastri called for a minute of silence in honour of Pataudi.
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