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{{Infobox cricketer
| name = Saad Bin Jung
| image =
| country = India
| fullname =
| birth_date = {{Birth date and age|1960|10|26|df=yes}}
| birth_place = [[Delhi]], India
| death_date =
| death_place =
| batting =
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| family =
| club1 = [[Hyderabad cricket team|Hyderabad]]
| year1 = 1978/79–1980/81
| club2 = [[South Zone cricket team|South Zone]]
| year2 = 1978/79–1979/80
| club3 = [[Haryana cricket team|Haryana]]
| year3 = 1983/84
| columns = 2
| column1 = [[First-class cricket|First-class]]
| matches1 = 22
| runs1 = 917
| bat avg1 = 28.65
| 100s/50s1 = 2/5
| top score1 = 136[[not out|*]]
| deliveries1 = 18
| wickets1 = 0
| bowl avg1 = –
| fivefor1 = –
| tenfor1 = –
| best bowling1 = –
| catches/stumpings1 = 9/–
| column2 = [[List A cricket|List A]]
| matches2 = 4
| runs2 = 132
| bat avg2 = 33.00
| 100s/50s2 = 0/1
| top score2 = 84
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| wickets2 = –
| bowl avg2 = –
| fivefor2 = –
| tenfor2 = –
| best bowling2 = –
| catches/stumpings2 = 1/–
| date = 27 June
| year = 2014
| source = http://www.espncricinfo.com/Australia/content/player/29970.html Cricinfo
}}
'''Saad Bin Jung''' (born 26 October 1960) is a former Indian cricketer who played [[first-class cricket]] from 1978 to 1984. He is now a conservationist and author and runs the Royal Migration Camps in the [[Serengeti]] in [[Tanzania]] whilst his children manage The Bison in South India.

==Early life==
Saad Bin Jung was born into the [[Paigah family]] of [[Hyderabad state]], and the royalty of [[Bhopal]] and [[Pataudi]]. He is the son of Nawab Bashir Yar Jung and his wife, the titular [[Begum of Bhopal]], Saleha Sultan. The [[Paigah family]] was one of the highest feudal landowning families of [[Hyderabad]]. Saad's father, Bashir Yar Jung, was from the Paigah Vicar ul Umra, and his mother, Saleha Sultan, was the eldest daughter of her highness [[Sajida Sultan]], the [[Begum of Bhopal]] and [[Iftikhar Ali Khan Pataudi]], [[Nawab of Pataudi]], and was the sister of [[Mansoor Ali Khan Pataudi]], the 9th Nawab of Pataudi. Both nawabs, known respectively as "Pataudi Senior" and "Pataudi Junior", were distinguished cricketers who captained the [[Indian cricket team|Indian Test team]]. Saad is the great-grandson of [[Hamidullah Khan]], the [[Nawab of Bhopal]], who succeeded to the throne of [[Bhopal]] after a long reign of royal queens. Major General of Pakistan, [[Sher Ali Khan]], is his great-granduncle, and the diplomat [[Shahryar Khan]] is his uncle, through her grandaunt [[Abida Sultan]]. The actress [[Sharmila Tagore]] is his aunt by marriage (Mansoor's wife), and the actors [[Saif Ali Khan]] and [[Soha Ali Khan]], and [[Saba Ali Khan]], the mutawalli of Auqaf-e-Shahi, are his first cousins.

Saad grew up in [[Hyderabad]], where he attended [[Hyderabad Public School]] and [[Nizam College]].<ref>{{cite web |title=The Bison Wildlife Resort |url=http://www.prismma.in/the-bison-wildlife-resort-kabini-saad-bin-jung/ |website=Prismma |accessdate=30 September 2019}}</ref>

==Cricket career==
After playing schools cricket in the [[Cooch Behar Trophy]], Saad Bin Jung was selected just after his 18th birthday to play his first-class debut match for India Under-22s against the touring [[West Indies cricket team|West Indians]] in November 1978. Opening the batting, he made 58, batting "most impressively, using the hook and cover-drive to advantage" against the pace attack of [[Sylvester Clarke]], [[Malcolm Marshall]] and [[Vanburn Holder]].<ref>''[[Wisden Cricketers' Almanack|Wisden]]'' 1980, p. 986.</ref> Two weeks later, also against the West Indians, he made 113 for [[South Zone cricket team|South Zone]], batting at number three, out of a team total of 283 for 8 declared.<ref>''Wisden'' 1980, pp. 990-91.</ref> ''[[Wisden Cricketers' Almanack|Wisden]]'' declared that he "batted with calm assurance" and held out "promise of playing Test cricket in the future".<ref>''Wisden'' 1980, p. 982.</ref>

He was selected for an Indian Board President's XI against the West Indians later in the season, and also against the [[Pakistan cricket team|Pakistan touring team]] early the next season, the latter was ruined by rain and he did not bat. He also played [[Duleep Trophy]] matches for South Zone in 1979-80. His innings of note in 1979-80 was 136 not out in seven hours, batting for [[Hyderabad cricket team|Hyderabad]] against [[Tamil Nadu cricket team|Tamil Nadu]] in the [[Ranji Trophy]], the only century in a drawn match.<ref>{{cite web | url = https://cricketarchive.com/Archive/Scorecards/39/39841.html| title = Tamil Nadu v Hyderabad 1979-80| publisher = CricketArchive| accessdate = 1 February 2015}}</ref>

After two matches in 1980-81 he contracted an illness which led to a long period of hospitalisation.<ref>{{cite news| work=The Hindu| first=Prabalika M. |last= Borah |accessdate=1 February 2015| title= Saad's Jung |url=http://www.thehindu.com/todays-paper/tp-features/tp-metroplus/saads-jung/article3894869.ece|date=14 September 2012}}</ref> After recovery, disenchanted with cricket in Hyderabad,<ref>{{cite news| work=Cricinfo| first=Saad Bin |last= Jung |accessdate=1 February 2015| title= Hyderabad, a love story |url= http://www.espncricinfo.com/travel/content/story/624578.html}}</ref> he played the 1983-84 season with [[Haryana cricket team|Haryana]], scoring 256 runs at an average of 32.00 in six matches, helping Haryana to reach the Ranji Trophy semi-finals.<ref>{{cite web | url = https://cricketarchive.com/Archive/Players/39/39348/f_Batting_by_Season.html| title = Saad Jung batting by season| publisher = CricketArchive| accessdate = 1 February 2015}}</ref> He then retired from cricket at the age of 23.

==Conservation career==
Saad and his wife Sangeeta now run the Royal Migration Camps in the [[Serengeti]] in [[Tanzania]] and own [[Ecotourism|eco-resorts]] on the banks of the [[Kabini River]] in [[Karnataka]]. They started their conservation career at [[Bandipur National Park]] in [[Karnataka]] in 1992 where they still run The Bandipur Cottage. The Jungs owned a wildlife lodge in Bandipur which Sangeeta decided to convert into an eco-resort. As Bandipur turned commercial, the Jungs purchased a piece of land near the Kabini backwaters in 1993. Today their son Shaaz Jung runs the eco-tourism resort with African-style tents and local cuisine. They aim to reconcile the needs of the local people with the needs of conservation through a sustained process of dialogue and trust building utilizing eco-tourism as the integral tool for conservation. They have also been taking safari tours to Africa since 1995.<ref>{{cite web | url = http://africawithsaad.com/about-us| title = About us| publisher = Africa with Saad| accessdate = 1 February 2015}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |date=21 February 2020|last1=Gupta |first1=Surbhi |title=Phantom of the Forest |url=https://indianexpress.com/article/lifestyle/art-and-culture/phantom-of-the-forest-shaaz-jung-documentary-the-real-black-panther-6279305/ |website=Indian Express |accessdate=9 June 2020}}</ref>

Saad has written three books, all with conservation themes: ''Wild Tales from the Wild'', about the people and wildlife of the Mangala valley in [[Karnataka]]; ''Subhan and I: My Adventure with the Angling Legend of India'', about [[angling]] for [[mahseer]] in the [[Kaveri|Cauvery River]]; and a novel, ''Matabele Dawn'', a [[Thriller (genre)|thriller]] set in Africa and India.

Saad and his wife have their business in Tanzania and live in their home near Bandipur and often come to [[Indiranagar]], an eastern suburb of [[Bangalore]].<ref>{{cite news|last1=Madhukar|first1=Jayanthi|title=Who am I to judge any woman?|url=http://www.bangaloremirror.com/columns/sunday-read/Who-am-I-to-judge-any-woman/articleshow/44934053.cms|accessdate=24 September 2016|work=Bangalore Mirror|date=25 October 2014}}</ref>

==References==
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==External links==
* {{cricinfo|id=29970}}
* [http://www.espncricinfo.com/travel/content/story/624578.html "Hyderabad, a love story" by Saad Bin Jung]

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>Blue Square Thing: var of fixes, including removing ib fields that are invalid