The Mansur Ali Khan Pataudi Memorial Lecture was inaugurated by the Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI) on 6 February 2013. It was established to honour the former Indian

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Mansur Ali Khan Pataudi, who died in 2011. The inaugural Lecture was delivered by former captain of the

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Sunil Gavaskar on 20 February 2013, at the

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hotel in Chennai. The BCCI indicated that the lecture would be an annual event.

History

Mansur Ali Khan was an Indian

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and former captain of the

. He was

Nawab of Bhopal The Nawabs of Bhopal were the Muslim rulers of Bhopal, now part of Madhya Pradesh, India. The nawabs first ruled under the Mughal Empire from 1707 to 1737, under the Maratha Empire from 1737 to 1818, then under British rule from 1818 to 1947, an ...

until 1971, when India abolished royal entitlements through the 26th Amendment to the Constitution of India. He was an '' Indian Cricket'' Cricketer of the Year in 1962, and a Wisden Cricketer of the Year in 1968. He published an autobiography, ''Tiger's Tale'', in 1969. He was the manager of the India team in 1974–75, and referee for two Ashes Tests in 1993. He was later a member of the council of the Indian Premier League. Mr. Pataudi was admitted to New Delhi's Sir Ganga Ram Hospital on 22 September 2011 with an acute lung infection caused by chronic interstitial lung disease which prevented his lungs from exchanging oxygen properly. He died of respiratory failure the same day. The BCCI decided to start the memorial lecture after Mr Pataudi's wife, Bollywood actress Sharmila Tagore, wrote a letter to the BCCI President

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. In the letter she criticised the BCCI for delaying the decision to institute the lecture. She also requested that the 2012 India-England cricket series be named after her husband. But the BCCI at that time expressed its inability to do so since the series had already been named the Anthony De Mello Trophy to honour the first BCCI secretary Anthony de Mello. On the day of the memorial lecture's institution, the BCCI said in a press release,

First lecture

The inaugural Mansur Ali Khan Pataudi Memorial Lecture was delivered by former Indian cricketer Sunil Gavaskar at the

hotel in Chennai on 20 February 2013. In his lecture Gavaskar spoke at length about Mr Pataudi. He praised him for improving Indian cricket, saying, "His adventurous style of play, his charisma, and his fondness for a practical joke changed how the game was played and perceived in the country." Several Indian and Australian cricketers who were part of the India-Australia cricket series were also present in the audience. Gavaskar wished the teams luck, and asked them to "introduce a smile or two to what was sure to be a hard-fought series." The lecture was broadcast live on the website bcci.tv. Gavaskar also asked the cricket administrators to give Test cricket what it truly deserves. For various reasons, none of the family of Mansur Pataudi could attend the lecture. Mrs Tagore could not attend because of food poisoning. She later said,

Second lecture

Anil Kumble gave the second Mansur Ali Khan Pataudi Memorial Lecture on 13 November 2013 at the Crystal Room, The Taj Mahal Palace Hotel, Mumbai. The lecture was attended by members of the

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, former India captains, current and former office-bearers of the BCCI, senior representatives of the BCCI's Affiliated Units and the Indian and West Indian teams.

Third lecture

Sourav Ganguly gave the third Mansur Ali Khan Pataudi Memorial Lecture on 12 November 2014 at The

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, Kolkata.

Fourth lecture

Former Indian captain

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gave the fourth MAK Pataudi Memorial Lecture on 1 December 2015. He spoke about the junior level of the game and the "need to invest as much energy, time and focus into India's youngest cricketers as we do for those at the elite level".Reintroduce children to the magic of cricket - Dravid
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Lecturers

References

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