The Nawab: Biography of the Legendary Cricketer Mansoor Ali Khan Pataudi is the first ever biography of the fatherson duo Iftikar and Mansur Pataudi. It is written by an experienced journalist Kishin R. Wadhwaney who has secured unprecedented information and details to narrate the story of a fine family The ‘Nawab’ cricket legends and Bollywood stars.
It is a magnificently written book. It is a comprehensive biography. It is exhaustively researched. This is a view of half a dozen stars who have had an occasion to go through the manuscript. In the words of Pradyot Lal an excellent cricket analyst it is a fine work encompassing areas way beyond narrow streets of Indian sports. Abbas Ali Baig Mansoor’s colleague in his brief ‘foreword’ says it all about the book that is to be written.
Between the two son outclassed his father. What Mansur achieved with one eye no other sportsperson had done it. Had he not lost vision in one eye he would have secured unprecedented records in the annals of the game.
