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October 31, 2008Posted on 10/31/2008 in Indian cricket
When a Rajput ran away in fear or did he?
V Ramnarayan writes in his blog Stumped a lovely story involving Vijay Manjrekar, Raj Singh Dungarpur and Pataudi's stage-managed dacoity.
... Palace servants disguised as dacoits came rushing to where the young Karnataka players Viswanath and Chandrasekhar were in the woods after a gunshot was heard and announced that Prasanna had been killed. The youngsters burst into tears, believing the yarn). According to Durrani, Vijay Manjrekar, retired from Test cricket, and an officer in Air India then, handed over his watch to one of the "dacoits" and told him that was all he possessed. “Please let me go, I'm ...
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