Former India participant Farokh Engineer was left disillusioned by the ECB’s dealing with of renaming the India vs England Take a look at collection and its subsequent determination to introduce the profitable captain’s medal named after the late Mansoor Ali Khan Pataudi. The ECB had instituted the Pataudi Trophy for the India-England collection in 2007 till renaming it to the Anderson-Tendulkar trophy earlier than the beginning of the continued five-match collection.
“Effectively Tiger Pataudi was an excellent buddy of mine. Nice colleague of mine. We performed plenty of Take a look at cricket. Nice heritage, nice household. I used to be most glad when the trophy was named after him again in 2007,” Engineer advised PTI.
“On one hand I used to be very disillusioned that the Pataudi title was eliminated, I’d love Tiger’s title to go on however as a substitute powers that be determined with Anderson and Sachin who’re legends of the sport. It (introducing Pataudi medal) was clearly an afterthought, they need to have introduced it to start with that might have extra credibility however at the very least they’ve accomplished one thing. Widespread sense has prevailed and hope the Pataudi title all the time stays.”
“…the achievements of Tendulkar and Anderson can’t be argued in opposition to. There are two sides to the story. They’ve named the medal after Pataudis which is a really considerate factor. That have to be a second option to appease plenty of Pataudi supporters of which I’m one however you may’t blame them for naming the trophy after Sachin and Anderson.”
“The entire situation is debatable however they’ve saved the title. I hope they invite Sharmila Tagore (Mansur’s spouse) and his son Saif Ali Khan to current the medal. Final collection they didn’t do this. Fingers have been pointed at ECB for that. Hopefully they provide them due credit score,” he mentioned.
Final week, Sunil Gavaskar had lamented the ECB’s determination to retain the Pataudi sentiment by rewarding the profitable captain of the five-match collection the Pataudi medal in honour of the royal Pataudi household. The previous India captain questioned what would occur to the medal if the collection resulted in a draw.
“The announcement of the Tendulkar-Anderson Trophy additionally mentioned that respect can be given to the Pataudis by having a medallion for the captain of the crew profitable the collection. Why the captain and what if the collection is drawn? That’s why it might have been higher to have had a Pataudi medal for the Man Of The Match for each Take a look at, culminating within the Pataudi Trophy for the Participant Of The Collection. This fashion, the Pataudis might be remembered after each Take a look at match performed in addition to after the collection is completed in England. It could be fascinating to listen to what Indian cricket lovers really feel on this topic,” Gavaskar wrote in his Mid-Day column.