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S2H Team Tears of joy today, but despair in 1972 despite winning an Olympic medal. This aptly sums of the present and past – when India won a bronze at Tokyo and then 49 years ...
Long time observer and seasoned writer Ijaz Chaudhry chronicles the vicissitudes of Pakistan hockey as it was in the last three decades. Its a precise portrayal with proper perspective. Every hockey aficionado across the globe ...
By ERROL D’CRUZ The months leading to the 1978 World Cup, the competition itself and the days following it were probably the most depressing in India’s chequered history of the game. Forty-three years ago in ...
This was a wizard with a difference. His wand was a hockey stick with which he mesmerized all the world over. Born on August 29, 1905, in Allahabad, Dhyan Chand’s skills blossomed in the British ...
HOCKEY BENGAL Everyone is invited to come and watch the final day of the Premier Hockey League 2021 at East Bengal Club ground, Maidan, Kolkata on Thursday, the 18the March 2021. 15.30 P.M: CESC vs ...
On this day in 1948, Father of the Nation Mahatma Gandhi was assassinated. That time the Indian men’s hockey team led by Dhyan Chand was touring East Africa. They came to know the assassination when ...
39 years ago on this day, Pakistan defended its World Cup title, that too on Indian soil. The last World Cup on grass also saw many sweeping changes – EDITOR ERROL D’CRUZ You could say ...
BY ERROL D’CRUZ New Year’s Day 1982 was special for the hockey community. It arrived during the 5th World Cup in Bombay (now Mumbai) which began on December 29, 1981. The unusual starting date of a ...
Indian hockey was looking up in the 1990s, matching the standards set by both Asian rivals Pakistan and South Korea. The team finished second in both the 1993 Asia Cup and 1994 Asian Games ahead ...
Hockey in India was vibrant even in the last quarter of the 19th century. The sport proliferated the length and breadth of the country. From Srinagar to Chennai, Lahore to Dhaka and even from the ...
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