HISTORIC SPORTING MOMENTS OF INDIA :: PRE AND POST INDEPENDENCE-:

Pic : Norman Pritchard finishing " SECOND " in the 200 metres dash , Olympics 1900  

HISTORIC SPORTING MOMENTS OF INDIA :: PRE AND  POST INDEPENDENCE-:

In a year from now we shall be stepping into the first day of putting our life into the 75^th years of the Independence of India. As of today we have completed the 73^rd years and have put our feet into the 74^th years In other words one year from now and we would be entering the zone of the platinium jubilee of our Independence of this nation.

It is a huge big achievement of the nation. As it is I’m one-by-one writing on my web blog page all about the lack and the sectors where our GDP ought to be enhanced so that slowly but surely we enhance it and become a vilable strong nation, but it ois the sports which also requires to be done with it, and I first start with the achievement that India has achieved, IN VERY SHORT in sports which infact is the achievement and a huge honour to the nation and the sports that scripts all about it’s history the the letters of GOLD.

I divide this article into two parts. The FIRST is the  INDIA’S achievement after the Independence and the second is India’s achievement before the Independence.

I do it because it is imperative that the achievement of India’s achievement after Independence ought to be jotted here first, because India then was participating as an Independent nation. The BRITISH – INDIA is jotted herewith afterwards as India was under the British.

Hereby one by one in SHORT and in brief I jot down India’s achievement in sports in the past years which slowly enters into the phase of platinum jubilee.

I have PURPOSELY inserted the pictures of the sportsstars of the YESTERYEARS' because the one's of the present generation as well as MANY of the previous would not KNOW by face about those who created all sort of history in SPORTS for India. To make them identifiable, I have pasted their picture here. 

Hockey-: Olympic 1948 

1). India winning the 1948 Olympic Hockey Gold by defeating Great Britain by 4-0 in the finals

Football-: Olympic 1948 

2). India qualifies for the Olympic Football Tournament for the Fist time playing BAREFOOTED

Footnote-: Playing barefooted in the Olympic football India produces such a magical dazzling football that FIFA invites India as a DIRECT-ENTRY to World Cup Football in 1950. India & Pt Jawaharlal Nehru refuses to send the team to WC Football

Asian Games :: 1951 

SPORTING REGALE-: INDIA HOSTS THE INAUGURAL ASIAN GAMES IN 1951 & India wins the Asian Games Football Gold by beating Iran by 1-0

Cricket-: 1951-52 

3). India WINS her FIRST TEST against England at Madras the team being led by the GREAT Vijay Hazare It takes 20 years for India to taste its first Test win

Wrestling - : Olympic 1952 

4). Kasaba D Jadhav Bhai wins the FIRST Olympic Bronze a meadl outside Hockey for India

Cricket :: 1952 

5). India beats Pakistan by 2-1 in the 1952 Test series to win her FIRST series in Test Cricket

Hockey :: Olympic 1956 

6). India wins her Hockey title at Melbourne Olympics defeating Pakistan by 1-0 in the finals That was a DOUBLE-HATTRICK of winning the Hockey Gold at the Olympics

WRESTLING PINNACLE- World wrestling Championship 1957 

 Bishamber Singh wins India the FIRST ever WRESTLING medal in the WORLD WRESTLING CHAMPIONSHIP at New Delhi

Olympic Football :: 1956

Pic : Chuni Goswami ,  One of the architect of famous Indian football epoch in the Olympics 

7). For the FIRST time India makes it to the semis of Olympic Football. S A Rahim was the coach of the Indian footbal team

DEBACLE OF HOCKEY BEGINS FOR INDIA ::

8). India beaten by Pakistan  by 1-0 in the Rome Olympic Finals > Naseer Ahmed Bunda's goal kills India

Athletic’s Wizardly : Olympic 1960 , Rome 

9). Milkha Singh creates a WORLD RECORD in the 400 metres finals in the Rome Olympics but misses the Olympic medal by a whisker .

Cricket ::Test Series Win, 1961-62 - :  Salim Durrani, Vijay Manjerekar do it 

9). India beats England by 2-0 under the captainship of Nari Contractor to WIN her FIRST ever Test series against England

Asian Games Hockey 1966  : Maiden Success for India

10). India beats Pakistan by 1-0 the goal scored by Balbir Singh Junior to win her FIRST Asian Games Hockey Gold

Hockey debacle :: India fails to make the Finals of the Olympic Hockey, Olympic 1968 

11). 1968). For the FIRST time in the Olympic Hockey India fails to qualify for the finals losing to Australia by 1-2 in the semis in extra time

12 ) . Asian Games Bangkok 1970 :: Kamuljit Sandhu Become The FIRST 

Miss kamaljit Sandhu wins the GOLD in the finals of the bangkok Asian games 1970 to become the FIRST ever Women Athlete to win a GOLD for India in the International Sports meet 

CRICKETING FOLKLORE-: India wins her FIRST series abroad by beating New Zealand by 3-1 under Tiger Pataudi.  Erapalli Prasanna GUILES India to OFF SPIN WITCH & MASTERY

Club Football ::

12). In club football East Bengal beat PAS Club of Iran by 1-0 to win the IFA Shield PAS Club Iran then was rated as the 9th best football team in the World

Cricket : Twin Edge Sharp Razor Blade cut’s them all

13). India wins her FIRST series against west-Indies abroad by beating them by 1-0

14). India wins the FIRST ever series against England at England by beating them 1-0 Chandrashekar mesmerises the English with googlies and his legspin.

Cricket :: Hattrick Of The Test Series Win::

15). India achieves the hattrick of series win against England defeating them by 2-1. Chandrashekar,  Solkar & Duranni make the impossible look possible

Athletics : Indian Athletics enters the World Zone’s Fray ::

16). T C Yohannan leaps to 8.07 metres in Long Jump at Tehran to become the FIRST Asian to cross the 8 metres mark in the Long jump to win a GOLD for India in that games.

Cricket ::

17). India defeats West -Indies in two Test matches at home to register their FIRST win on the Indian soil Tiger Pataudi was the MAN whose " BRAIN " and Gundappa Vishvanath was the BATSMAN whose WRIST ,  did and achieved the impossible.

 18 ) . HOCKEY REGALE-

On 15th March 1975 India WON her FIRST WORLD CUP Hockey beating Pakistan by 2-1 in the finals. Ashok Kumar Dhyanchand scored the winning goal.

SRIRAM SINGH'S FINALE: FINALS

19 ) . Sriram Singh in the FINALS of the 800 metres leads the field for 652 meters only to follow and fail to his illness to finish seventh in the Montreal Olympics Final

Hockey : The LAST Gold of the last millinium

20). India won her 8th Olympic Hockey Gold by beating Spain by 4-3 in a pulsating finals Mohammed Shahid scored the winning goal

Cricket ::

21). India for the FIRST time squared a series against Australia at Australia when they bundled out Australia for 86 with Kapil Dev taking 5 for 26

India Holds The Asian Games At New Delhi For The Second Time::

22). India HOLDS and HOISTS the 1982 Asian Games The Indian Women Hockey team win her FIRST International GOLD in these games

Olympics ::

22). P T Usha misses the Bronze by 1/100 of a second in the Los Angeles Olympics Finals of the Women 10X400 metres Hurdles

Olympics 1996

23). Leander Paes wins a BRONZE medal for India in the Olympics in Tennis Singles

24). Malleshwaram M Karnavi wins the Olympic Bronze in the weightlifting event for India in the 200 Melbourne Olympics

25). RAJYAVARDHAN SINGH RATHORE WINS THE SILVER MEDAL FOR INDIA IN THE OLYMPIC TRAP SHOOTING

GOLDEN ERA OF INDIA IN INDIVIDUAL EVENT AT OLYMPICS :: Aug 11^th 2008

25). India wins the FIRST ever OLYMPIC GOLD in the OLYMPIC through Abhinav Bindra

Olympics 2012 ::

26). India wins her FIRST Olympic Wrestling Silver courtesy Sushil Kumar

Olympics ::

27). India wins her FIRST Badminton Silver and her FIRST WOMAN WRESTLING Bronze through P V Sandhu and Madam Shakshi  Mallik in the Womenevent of Badminton and wrestling

28). Indian Woman Deepa Karmakar becomes to FIRST ever Indian GYMNAST to reach the Olympic Finals in Gymnastic where she finishes FOURTH

TENNIS PINNACLE-:

A)> Ramanathan Krishnan becomes the FIRST Indian to reach the semis of Wimbledon in 1960

1966

B). India beats Brazil by 3-2 to make it to the Challenge Round where they lost to Australia by 1-4

C). Ramanathan Krishnan become the FIRST Indian to be seeded at the Wimbledon in 1961 and get a WORLD RANKING of 6th Best Tennis player in the WORLD then . He again makes it to the semis of Wimbledon for the second time in succession.

Tennis :: The “FIRST” CAR won in Sports by an Indian::  

D). Vijay Amritraj becomes the FIRST Indian to defeat ROD LAVER in the Volvo Tennis tourney and win the VOLVO CAR in the finals after beating Jimmy Connors in the Finals This was the FIRST time that an Indian had won a CAR in a tourney Madam Indira Gandhi waives all the surcharges for Vijay to bring the car here at home

1987 ::

E). India for the last time reaches the DAVIS CUP CHALLENGE round in 1987 where they lost to Sweden by 0-5

BOXING - :

Vijendra Kumar becomes the FIRST Indian to clinch a OLYMPIC BOXING MEDAL at China (Beijing Olympics ) in 2008

These are the SPORTING PINNACLES of India after Independence

There maybe some like T-20 and  I do not take that into account

FOOTNOTE-:

I'm NOT taking into account the World Cup cricket and the Woman's World Cup because they are NOT the OLYMPIC events and both the World Cup 1983 and the Woman's World Cup finals of the 2017 are HISTORY that ought to be scripted in the letter of GOLD

 

SPORTS “ PINNACLE ” OF INDIA BEFORE INDEPENDENCE

1). Madam Mary becomes the FIRST Indian Athlete , a WOMAN and the lone participants in the 1896 Olympics She carries a Union Jack Flag for India

Olympic , Paris 1900

Pic :: Norman Pritchard The "FIRST" Indian to have won TWO SILVER medals in the Olympic 1900, Paris 

2). Norman Pritchard becomes the FIRST Indian and the FIRST EVER ASIAN to win TWO Silver Medals for India in the Olympics

Norman Pritchard is also the " FIRST " ever Indian athlete to act in a HOLLYWOOD Film.He acted as the TARZAN in TWO Hollywood Movies.

FOOTNOTE- : Both the SILVER MEDAL won by Norman Pritchard seized away by the Britishers saying that HE was a SLAVE BRITISH INDIAN and he did not qualify for India as a nationalist of India

CRICKET ::

3). Jamsahib Ranjit Singhji and thereafter his nephew Jamsahib Dilip Singhji become the FIRST ever Indian player to play TEST matches for England Both of them hit centuries for England playing their first ever Test for England While Ranjit Singhji scored a 158 his nephew scored an unbeaten 158 for England in  his debut Test

Football :: Club Football

4). Mohun Bagan beats a strong selected British Regiment Team playing barefooted to win the IFA Shield and thus become the FIRST ever team to beat a team from abroad/ British Mohun Bagan was formed on JUly 29th 1889

4). The BRITISH INDIA HOCKEY ASSOCIATION was formed at Kolkatta/ Calcutta then in 1911.

Birth Of East Bengal Football Team ::

EAST BENGAL FOOTBALL TEAM & CLUB FORMED

East Bengal the GLAMOROUS football team of India was formed on August 1st 1920 Major Dhyanchand conferred as the FIRST HONOURABLE member of the club

Olympic Hockey ::

5). India received the invitation to play in the Amsterdam Olympic in 1928 Jaipal Singh becomes the FIRST Captain of Indian Hockey team

OLYMPIC REGALE ::: PINNACLE OF INDIAN HOCKEY

Playing their FIRST ever Olympics in Hockey India scored 35 goals in the entire tourney without conceding ONE to win its MAIDEN Hockey Title The World notices MAJOR DHYANCHAND for the FIRST time ever as a MAGIC of hockey .

6). India concedes the FIRST goal in Olympic hockey while beating Japan 11-1 in the 1932 Olympics at Los Angeles INDIA WINS HER SECOND GOAL IN OLYMPIC HOCKEY TROUNCING AMERICA BY “ 24 ” .

1934 COMMONWEALTH GAMES ::

Commomwealth Games : India participates :: 1934

India for the FIRST time participates in the 1934 Commonwealth Games and WINS THEIR FIRST INTERNATIONAL MEDAL - A “ SILVER ” IN THE WRESTLING COMPETITION

CRICKET – ::

INDIA PLAYS HER FIRST TEST MATCH IN TEST CRICKET AT ENGLAND ON JUNE 25TH 1932 MOHAMMED NISSAAR AND AMAR SINGH SHOW THE WORLD THAT INDIAN ARE A MASTER IN PACE BOWLING AND MOHAMMED NISSAR PROVES THAT AT THAT TIME HE WAS THE MOST FASTEST AND THE MOST VENOMOUS TEARAWAY FAST BOWLER IN THE WORLD HIS MINIMUM SPEED OF THE DELIVERY USE TO BE AT 96 MILES PER HOUR

OLYMPIC’S & HOCKEY

HITLER BEATEN BY DHYANCHAND

Leading the Indian hockey team in the 1936 Hitler and his HOPES were dashed by Dhyamchand when India defeated Germany then by 8-1 in the finals to make it a HATTRICK of Olympic Hockey Gold

DHYANCHAND REFUSES HITLER'S OFFER TO JOIN THE GERMAN ARMY AS A - " FIELD MARSHAL "

1938 - : Badminton

Prakashnath becomes the FIRST Indian shuttler to reach the QUARTER-FINALS of the All India Badminton held at England . He was then only 19 years of age .

In 1947 when he was Twenty Seven years of age he became the First Indian to play in the Finals of All- England Badminton Championship.

Pics - : Prakashnath  and  Devendra Mohan(Left ) and  on the Right :: Dane Conny Jepson  whom he lost in the Finals of 1947 All England 

1938 - Lawn Tennis

Pic :: Ghaus Mohammed(Left) , The First Ever Indian  Quarter Finalist , Wimbledon 1938 

Mr Ghouse Mohammed the First Uncle of Test  cricketer Mohammed Nissar becomes the FIRST Indian to make it to the QUARTER-FINALS of the Wimbledon Tennis Championship

That is all l about India SPORTING REGALE in the PRE-INDEPENDENCE era and these are the ONE'S WHO MADE INDIA KNOWN WORLD OVER

 

Regards and Thanks

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 Mr Shyamal Bhattacharjee, the author was born at West Chirimiri Colliery at District Surguja, Chattisgarh on July 6th 1959 He received his early education at Carmel Convent School Bishrampur and later at Christ Church Boys' Higher Secondary School at Jabalpur. He later joined Hislop College at Nagpur and completed his graduation in Science and he also added a degree in    B A thereafter. He joined the HITAVADA, a leading dailies of Central India at Nagpur as a      Sub-Editor ( Sports ) but gave up to complete his MBA in 1984 He thereafter added a Diploma In Export Management. He has authored THREE books namely Notable Quotes and Noble Thought published by Pustak Mahal in 2001 Indian Cricket : Faces That Changed It  published by Manas Publications in 2009 and Essential Of Office Management published by NBCA, Kolkatta  in 2012. He has a experience of about 35 years in Marketing .

 

 

 Signature Of Shyamal Bhattacharjee