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]
