
Mansur Ali Khan Pataudi, one of India's greatest cricket captains ever and whose flair and acumen inspired a generation of cricket players, passed away here on 22 Sep 11 after battling a lung infection for the last few months. The 70 years old cricketer, one of India's early superstars and who was known as "Tiger" n the cricket fraternity, was suffering from interstitial lung disease, a condition in which the passage of oxygen to the two lungs is less than normal.