The canny captain from Pataudi
Tiger Pataudi's nephew Saad Bin Jung on his recollections of his uncle, in Deccan Chronicle
I was but 15, throwing a hard plastic ball at him [Pataudi] in the veranda in Delhi. He didn’t see the yorker nor the bouncer. He knew that and I knew that, yet he went out and faced Andy Roberts, Bernard Julian and Vanburn Holder and levelled the series 2-2 only to lose the last Test. A few years later, when I played Malcolm Marshall I understood the magnitude of the hurdle he had crossed, I recognised his braveness and his sheer determination and I acknowledged his genius ...
Nikita Bastian is a sub-editor at ESPNcricinfo