India rejects Pataudi trophy for England Tests
The Marylebone Cricket Club (MCC), which owns the revered Lord’s ground in London, instituted the Pataudi Trophy in 2007 for the winner of India-England series in England.
The family of Pataudi, nicknamed “Tiger”, wrote to the Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI) asking them to follow England’s lead.
But the BCCI on Wednesday said that the MCC’s Pataudi Trophy was meant only for the series played in England and it had its own prize to be awarded to the winner of the series in India.
The BCCI said in a statement that the upcoming four-Test series, which begins on November 15, will be played for the Anthony de Mello Trophy, named after a former board official.
“The India-England series in India is played for the Anthony De Mello Trophy instituted in 1951 in the name of the first secretary of the BCCI, recognising his contribution to Indian cricket,” the statement read.
Former captain Bishan Bedi, who played under Pataudi, slammed the BCCI for handling the matter “shabbily”.
“(I) played six series with England and not once was there mention of the De Mello Trophy,” Bedi tweeted.
Tiger Pataudi is often hailed as one of India’s most charismatic cricketers who played 46 Tests between 1961 and 1975.
A former “Nawab” or nobleman, his father, Iftikhar Ali Khan Pataudi was the only Test cricketer to play for both England and India.
Tiger Pataudi scored 2,793 runs with six centuries, including an unbeaten 203 against England in New Delhi in 1964, despite having lost his right eye in a road accident.
He led India in 40 of his 46 Tests, winning nine and securing the country’s first series win abroad on the 1967-68 tour of New Zealand.
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@sid:
The trophy for series played in England is after Indian and that in India is after Englishman
(1)"Pataudi" means the Senior too, only one to have played both for England & India.(2) Anthony de Mello, like the great broadcaster of AIR Melville de Mello, was not an Englishman. He was born in Karachi in a community popularly known as "Anglo-Indian" but as the surname shows he was of Portuguese-Indian ancestry of Goa-Bombay.
@Deb;India You are right Sir. "Cement makers" indeed. Half the fellows don't know the difference between a cricket field & a field cricket (the insect) but they understand the "chirping" of money alright!
@USMAN786:
You had to, of course, bring in the Muslim element because logic and common sense are alien to most madrassah-educated Pakistanis. If the De Mello trophy was indeed named after Pataudi, you would still say that India denied De Mello the honour because he was a Christian. We are secular Indians whose large majority consists of Hindus, yet the country has seen a number of Muslim Presidents, a vice president, several ministers and many, many MPs. Pataudi was given many honours, including the privilege of captaining India's national cricket team - a fact that filled the Muslims of India with pride. India's Muslims do not see Pakistan as their "mother country", a myth that has been propagated by your mentally-bankrupt politicians, military and mullahs. Ask Indian Muslims what they can get in Pakistan. They will say that get a fancy title called "mohajir". Also, the head of India's ruling party is a Christian, not to mention a Sikh PM. Can you think of having anyone in a senior position (let alone a minister, prime minister or the president) belonging to a minority community? You might like to shoot him down and shower rose petals on the brutal killers. That's what your civilization is about.
If you -- or your ilk -- have any intellectual honesty, you would see how backward your country is in terms of social thinking and emancipation of minorities. Of course, India has huge problems but Indians don't blame other countries for their problems, a mantra which Pakistanis love to chant with deep religiosity. India has large pockets of poverty, I concede, but an Indian can breathe the free air unlike an average Pakistani who is judged by the religion to which he belongs to. You don't even recognize Ahmedis, Shias and the like as Muslims; they are denied all the fundamental rights which your terribly distorted constitution should guarantee. And, Mr. Usman, I am not even talking about the horrors of the sufferings of Hindus, Christians, Parsis, etc. who would run away from the "land of the pure" when any country provides an opening in the door. This is already happening with Hindus who come to visit India but don't ever want to return to Pakistan.
ET don't post lies..........The trophy for series played in England is after Indian and that in India is after Englishman............Shobby journalism
@Pir Bulleh Shah:
Thank you, Quaid, for saving us from this daily discrimination and humiliation.
You are absolutely correct. Thank you Jinnah for saving us by asking a separate nation for Muslims.........
@USMAN786:
Is there anything else in mind of a common Pakistani other than religion ?
Shouldnt the headline be "BCCI rejects....." ?
ET please stop giving wrong ideas to misguided people you have.
@Pir Bulleh Shah: indeed!!!!!!!!! thanks to Quaid for seperating us from hate spreading mullahs who are creating so much violence ......even in urban areas which also includes pakistan's so called commercial capital.........
@shweta, there is no concept of forcible conversions in islam.....the process of conversion in not jus drinking a holy water and tasting a scramental bread....the exercise doesnt allow any room or any elemet of force or voilence in it; its more of a faith driven exercise rather than some symoblic actions. If we didnt have to use any force in the early part of 2nd milleneium and still we had managed to convert 30-35% of population of hindu sobcontinent into muslims without any force why would we require any force to convert 1 yousuf youhana into muhmmad yousuf ......
@Pir Bulleh Shah: Thank You Jinnah for clearing the dirt from India. But alas, few got left behind.
@Pir Bulleh Shah: Beta discriminated to tu aisa bhi hai....worst thing is that you r not only discriminated by india but world community...
@Rakib
You said it far better than I ever could. Liked 'BCCI is not known for finesse'. When a cricket body is run by an assorted group of career politicians, lawyers, cement dealers (actually manufacturer), real estate mughals etc.; 'finesse' is the last thing one can expect.
@Pir Bulleh Shah
Do you even read the body of the article, before start typing? or just go by the heading? If he was alive today, Quaid could have regretted his decision
@Pir Bulleh Shah: indeed!!!!!!! thank u quaid for seperating us from these hate mongering people.....couldn't have lived in so much violence everyday........thanku so moch quaid :D
This is how India treats its Muslims! Utterly shameful. Thank you, Quaid, for saving us from this daily discrimination and humiliation.
@USMAN786
Knowing something by half is dangerous. Pataudi was, at various occasions, 1) Captain of the Test team. 2) Selector at Test level 3) Advisor to BCCI on many committees. and during all these times he was a Muslim too.
But more importantly, the Trophy for all Test series between India and England played in India is 'ANTONY DEMELLO TROPHY' since 1951. Antony Demello was the 1st President of BCCI.
PATAUDI Trophy is for all Test Series between England and India played in England.. And that has not been changed. Pataudi is one of the best loved and respected cricketer among all Indians. His large no of friends and fans also include hindus, in fact by huge numbers. Being a fan of the great man I have a huge collection of articles written on him both before and after his death. 99% of them are written by hindus. And wrote about him, because he was a great cricketer and a fine man, not because he was a Muslim. Let's not look at every thing through a religious prism.
Regards.
@USMAN786:
"..is this treatment by BCCI bcz he is a muslim?.."
His being a Muslim was neither in his favour nor against him when he became the Captain at the age of 21. Nor did that matter when he captained India for 40 test matches. His religion did not matter when he was given Arjuna Award-a high award coveted by sportsmen & made Padma Shri. Not once anybody cast a shadow of doubt on his patriotism because of religion even when his cousin Shahryar Khan became Pakistan's foreign secretary & yet another cousin General Isfandiyar Ali Khan became Dy Director of ISI. It is probable that since MCC had already appropriated Pataudi's name for England-hosted matches it would have been awkward for BCCI to use the same name. The authorities could have handled it better but BCCI is not known for finesse.
@USMAN786: nah...no link....as u know we r secular .....unlike pakistan who forcibly converted yosuf yohanna to mohammad yosuf in order to be captain of the cricket team......
is this treatment by BCCI bcz he is a muslim?