The Cricket legend Tiger Pataudi dies after battling lung infection!

India's cricket legend Mansur Ali Khan Pataudi

India's cricket legend Mansur Ali Khan Pataudi

India's cricket legend Mansur Ali Khan Pataudi

India's cricket legend Mansur Ali Khan Pataudi

India's cricket legend Mansur Ali Khan Pataudi

India's cricket legend Mansur Ali Khan Pataudi

India's cricket legend Mansur Ali Khan Pataudi with Saif Ali Khan

India's cricket legend Mansur Ali Khan Pataudi

India's cricket legend Mansur Ali Khan Pataudi with Sharmila Tagore and Saif Ali Khan

India's cricket legend Mansur Ali Khan Pataudi with Saif Ali Khan

India's cricket legend Mansur Ali Khan Pataudi with Police

India's cricket legend Mansur Ali Khan Pataudi, known for his strutting style on and off the cricket field, died here Thursday after battling a lung infection for about a month. He was 70.

The former Indian captain, who was admitted to the Sir Gangaram Hospital here, is survived by his wife, veteran actress Sharmila Tagore, and three children - daughters Soha and Saba and son Saif.

His son Saif, a well-liked actor, and his partner Kareena Kapoor were by his side when he breathed his last, doctors at the hospital said.

He played 46 Test matches for India between 1961 and 1975.

A car mishap permanently damaged vision in his right eye when he was only 20. This, however, did not affect his extensively acclaimed playing skills.

Commonly known as Tiger, he was the ninth and last Nawab of Pataudi, now in Haryana.

On Thursday morning, doctors had warned that Pataudi's condition was worsening and he was serious.

'His condition has deteriorated since Wednesday and he is unable to maintain his oxygen level in spite of maximum treatment. He continues to remain in the ICU (intensive care unit),' Neeraj Jain, senior consultant and chairman of pulmonolgy (chest medicine) at Gangaram Hospital in central Delhi, had told.

Pataudi had been admitted to the hospital in August with acute lung infection.

'This disease... had been static since the last three months. It worsened very acutely over the last four weeks,' Jain told.

'The possibility of lung transplant was discussed very early as soon as his condition worsened. But he was not a suitable candidate for it,' he included.

A dashing cricketer, Pataudi was in the limelight when he married the young Sharmila Tagore in 1969.

The connection to Indian cinema endured through the decades when his son Saif also became a Bollywood actor and so did his daughter Soha.

In his later years, Pataudi was a recognizable figure in Delhi circles.