Pataudi’s education had swapped Winchester for Oxford University \u2013 Balliol College, to study Arabic and French.<\/p>\n
On the cricket field, Tiger continued to dish out lessons of his own.<\/p>\n
Having scored a century against rivals Cambridge on debut, by the summer he had racked up 1,216 runs and was on track to break the university record run total for a season – 1307 – which had been set by his own father.<\/p>\n
But this would be a run chase that came to a sudden halt.<\/p>\n
Following a match for Oxford at Sussex, Pataudi was involved in a car crash.<\/p>\n
A shard of glass from the smashed windscreen threatened to shatter the dreams of a young cricketer now blinded in his right eye.<\/p>\n
As Sussex Cricket chair Jon Filby explains, Pataudi had the option to walk home from a restaurant that was quite close to his hotel but instead jumped in a car with Oxford University teammate Robin Waters.<\/p>\n
As they turned onto the seafront road a car drove into them, It was an awful accident that had huge ramifications for him.<\/p>\n
Who’s to know how great he would have been?<\/p>\n
While many feared this would end Tiger’s cricket career, remarkably, he was soon back in the nets.<\/p>\n
Defiantly adapting his batting skills \u2013 re-learning the game he loved, as BBC Cricket commentator Prakash Wakankar explains.<\/p>\n
“Tiger chose to pick the right image of the inside of the two balls he saw when he played.<\/p>\n
“To be able to go on and get a hundred so soon after his injury \u2013 well, his legend started to grow.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Pataudi’s education had swapped Winchester for Oxford University \u2013 Balliol College, to study Arabic and French. On the…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":38132,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34],"tags":[1721,101,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-38131","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-cricket","tag-cricket","tag-sports","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38131","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=38131"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38131\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/38132"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=38131"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=38131"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=38131"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}