7 'must-know' amazing stories of legendary Indian cricketers

#1 Playing with one eye

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On July 1, 1961, Mansur Ali Khan Pataudi, who in those days was playing for Oxford University in England, was involved in a car mishap. In a head-on accident with another car, a splinter from the windscreen entered his right eye, and he lost the lens of his eye.

In his autobiography, he mentions that the surgeon told him, “You will find it better to play Cricket using one-eye, as a contact lens would take too long to master.”

That must have been quite disheartening, but ‘Tiger’ never thought of giving up. He underwent an eye-surgery; and in a matter of weeks, he was back in the nets in spite of vision problems. He writes, “With a contact lens in my injured eye I found I could get 90 percent of my vision. The only trouble was it made me see two of everything.”

The legend found his way through this handicap, adjusting his game in little ways, like opening up his stance. Magically, he made his debut for India in less than 6 months… and the rest as they say is history. His entire career after that accident has to be one of the nation’s greatest Cricket stories.