Rolling Captain, Indian hockey is rocking guys

We won the Canada series convincingly. Coach Jose Brasa and the captain should be really proud of it.

Hey, hang on. Who is the captain, by the way?

Multiple captain theory is now on display. Much like cricket talk in the recent times. We had seven of them in Canada

Kolkata Knight Riders, Shah Rukh Khan and John Buchanan should ask Brasa for a cut after this one-sided win. After all, the IPL side showed the Spaniard a match-winning formula, by raking this in a big way. King Khan didn’t use the theory in the last IPL even after having a public debate with Sunny Bhai. Hmm.. that’s the reason KKR did so badly in South Africa!

But our hockey coach followed it, national team crushed the Mini-Punjab, which is rated higher than us, strictly by the FIH point system.

Well, the intensive post-mortem done by the hard-working S2h team concludes that Canada lost so badly to the not-so-great Indian side because:-

1. Number of NRI players in their squad was even less than the Noble Prize Winners from India (and many angry people in Punjab are going to file PILs in Punjab & Haryana High Court against it)

2. Canada has a player called Gabbar Singh, know name for villains in Indian cinema. And as you know, in 99 percent of Indian movies villain and his gang always loses (I left 1 percent as a tribute to SRK’s Don.

3. The Canadians were so traditional, just had one captain in the whole of 7-match series! I mean, how they can be so old-timers. Just one captain? I can’t belive. I really sympathize with their captain, he would have beeen exhausted thoroughly captaining the bunch for so long! After all leading a side in a game like Hockey isn’t children’s play.

Abhay Sharma, coach of the Railways’ Cricket team echoes me in some respect. According to Sharma, hockey game is mostly controlled by the coach and captain is just for the name sake. (Abhay ji, do you mean that the hockey captain is like a few ex-chief ministers in India?)

So, he thinks that this innovative idea isn’t that bad, though he would never experiment it with his team. I should tell this to This week that wasn’t guy.

Well, I completely buy Brasa’s theory (not because he is a foreigner and most of my country cousins swear by their name) because a few months later, even Sarvanjit Singh and so many other singhs woould boast before their college teachers ‘ am ex-Indian skipper’. It might fetch some extra marks in the practical Wow! Even I should have played our national game.

I am extremely happy that I find some support from the hockey fraternity itself (of course for the different reason) Ajay Kumar Bansal, who is presently training the U-18 boys at the Soorma Bhopali’s land, agrees with Jose Brasa on a serious note.

“In a test series, one is allowed to do such experiments and there is no harm doing this. Having the captain’s band in your arm fills you with the feeling of pride and responsibility and that helps in overall improvement in the player’s game. So next time, when another captain would ask anything to the ‘ex-captain’, later would understand his point of view better” says thoughtful Bansal

We talked about the Bollywood movies’ trend earlier. There is another one happy ending now. So I would like to end this piece with the same note to keep our tradition alive (well, that’s the only thing I can do) in a hope that whatever experiments our respected coach do, we hope that THE MOST IMPORTANT thing happens, and that is our national side does better in the future, KYONKI PICTURE ABHI BAAKI HAI MERE DOST.