The Tiger and the Spartan
28.04.26, 20:19 Updated 12.05.26, 20:33 2 Minute Read
Paul Weaver
As Sussex prepare to do battle with Surrey, their mighty foe from the smoke, later this week it is time to raise a glass to the memory of two special players, the Nawab of Pataudi and Douglas Jardine.
At Winchester College on June 13 – six weeks after this weekend’s County Championship fixture at The Oval – plaques will be unveiled to celebrate the lives of two of the most famous Old Wykehamists, and the close families of both alumni are expected to attend.
In 1919 Jardine marked his captaincy of the Winchester XI by scoring 997 runs (averaging more than two hours for each innings he played), the most by a Wykehamist until the Nawab of Pataudi beat it 37 years later.
Both men went to Oxford, where Pataudi was captain, and both men led their counties, Jardine with Surrey in 1932 and 1933 and Pataudi with Sussex in 1966, between the reigns of Ted Dexter and Jim Parks, lifting the side from 16th to 10th in the table. Both men, however, won real fame as outstanding captains of their respective countries.
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