The doctors attending to former India cricket captain Mansur Ali Khan Pataudi, who was admitted to a hospital here because of a lung infection, said he is stable and improving.


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"Pataudi is better now. He is improving," a doctor was quoted as saying by PTI on Saturday. Pataudi's sonu00a0Bollywood actor Saif Ali Khan rushed to Delhi from Mumbai to attend to his father on Friday. He along with his mother Sharmila Tagore are currently in Delhi to be with the former cricket star.

Pataudi, regarded as one of the finest Indian captains, played 46 Tests for the country, scoring 2793 runs for an average of 34.91 with an unbeaten 203 being his highest score. He smashed six centuries and 16 fifties in his career.