Another twist before the five-match Test series between England and India. As per some latest reports, the Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI) asked the England and Wales Cricket Board (ECB) to rethink scrapping the prestigious Pataudi Trophy.

The ECB has already decided to retire the Pataudi Trophy and replace it with a newly named Anderson-Tendulkar Trophy for the upcoming England vs. India Test. The decision by the cricket governing board of England received mixed reactions. Two former internationals, James Anderson and Sachin Tendulkar, also consider them as the greats of the game. Anderson played his last Test match for England at Lord's against the West Indies in July 2024. Throughout his career, he took 704 Test wickets in 350 innings. Sachin Tendulkar announced his retirement from international cricket on November 16, 2013, after playing his 200th Test match. In 200 tests, he scored 15,921 with an average of 53.78, including 51 centuries. 

According to the latest information, BCCI expressed their desire to preserve the legacy of the former India captain Mansur Ali Khan Pataudi. With that aim, the board asked ECB to name one of their awards for individual performances in the upcoming series after the legendary figure of Indian cricket. Though nothing is official yet. In fact, the ECB has yet to officially announce the decision to retire the Pataudi Trophy, which was introduced in 2007 for the first time to celebrate India’s 75th anniversary of their first Test in 1932.

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Official confirmations yet to come

"We have requested them to name one of the post-match trophies after Pataudi, and they will revert to us. It’s the ECB that decides on whom they want to name their series. The BCCI has no role in it, as it’s their home series," a BCCI official was quoted as saying by The Indian Express. 

However, it is also known that the ECB had informed Pataudi's son and Bollywood actor, Saif Ali Khan, about the renaming of the trophy.