The sight will be etched in my mind’s eye for years to come. As the captain of the chartered flight ferrying us from Chandigarh to Lahore for the 1996 World Cup cricket final drew our attention to the border thousands of feet below, hundreds of pair of eyes peered out of the windows of...
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The pursuit of sporting excellence has always been more fascinating than anything else. A study of single-minded devotion will always throw up amazing stories of sheer determination. And I can already see that India’s elite athletes preparing for this year’s Commonwealth Games and the Asian Games are engaged in such relentless pursuits – against...
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The legend of Dhyan Chand lives on in the hearts of Indian sports fans, even though many generations of Indians have not had the privilege of watching the wizard unveil his magic on the hockey pitch. Many years later, Balbir Singh Sr. was revered across the nation for being part of teams that won...
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One of the spin-offs in a career in which writing and commenting on cricket seems to have taken precedence – despite having been to Olympic Games, Asian Games, SAF Games and numerous other non cricket sporting events – is that I have not been in touch with a whole generation of Indian hockey players....
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The irony of sport – and indeed life itself – was never too apparent than in India’s last two games in the Hero Honda FIH World Cup. On Saturday, India lost to a game England that it should have drawn, if not won. On Monday, it was left thanking its stars after a 3-3...
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It has been a while since India figured among the top four finishers at a world class hockey event – and, even though Australia and the European nations do not figure in the Asian Games and Asia Cup, we are including these events when we are discussing the dismal record over the past few...
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