CricInfo Logo
Face to Face

Home
Archive
  EAS Prasanna
  TA Sekhar
  Madan Lal
  Shivlal Yadav
  Roger Binny
  DK Gaekwad
  Vijay Hazare
  Kiran More
  Eknath Solkar
  Madhav Apte
  Karsan Ghavri
  Ajit Wadekar
  Balwinder Sandhu
  Baloo Gupte
  Polly Umrigar
  Chandra Nayudu
  CD Gopinath
  Mushtaq Ali
  Mansur Pataudi
  Maninder Singh
  Chandu Sarwate
  Chetan Chauhan

Mansur Pataudi

Meet Mansur Pataudi Face to Face as part of CricInfo's video/audio interview series with former Indian cricketers

Technical Requirements: To view these interview clips, you will need to install the latest version of the RealPlayer. Download a free RealPlayer now.

"We couldn't afford to play all four spinners... The basic difference between all four was that one could tell Prasanna what one expected off him...Which is something you could you could not tell Chandersekhar"

[ Complete profile of Mansur Pataudi ]


1961-62 tour of West Indies - Contractor's injury forces Pataudi to be captain at the age of 21?

"I had already captained Oxford and played for Sussex. Apart from that [some] senior players like Polly Umrigar and Vijay Manjrekar were very supportive. Not only was I the youngest captain but the also junior most player in the team!" [Audio]

[Nari Contractor]
[India in West Indies, 1961-62 | 3rd Test]

Did Pataudi and Mike Smith strike a deal to force a result in the last test in the 1963-64 series?

"This was not true because I don't think any kind of artifical solution for the test match was sought...The wicket was too good. People could have have played for ten days!" [Audio]

[Mike Smith]
[England in India : Dec 1963/Jan 1964 | 5th Test]

The highest run total India has ever chased successful in a home test?

"I remember that match very well. We had to get 180 odd on the last day. We had already lost a few wickets...Chandu Borde, whom we had kept back for the expected tense moments, [went out and played] very well." [Audio]

[Chandu Borde] [Australia in India : Sep/Oct 1964 | 2nd Test]

Pataudi's best knock - At Leeds (1967) Or at Melbourne (1968)?

"I think the [knock] at Melbourne was the better innings, technically. It did not make any difference either way really because we lost both matches." [Audio]

[India in England - 1967 | 1st Test]
[India in Australia - 1967/68 | 2nd Test]

Handling the classic Indian spin quartet of the 1960's?

"We couldn't afford to play all four spinners... The basic difference between all four was that one could tell Prasanna what one expected off him...Which is something you could you could not tell Chandersekhar." [Audio]

[EAS Prasanna | BS Chandrasekhar | Bishan Bedi | S Venkataraghavan]


© CricInfo