Indian Hockey :: Sudden Death Or Extra Time




Pic - : This is how the communication occurs when SUDDEN DEATH and EXTRA TIME takes place simultaneously 

Indian Hockey :: Sudden Death Or Extra Time

Finally this would be the ONE but,  last of my article on Indian Hockey. Here in this web page, I have already finished writing twenty articles on Indian Hockey and this would make it the last of them all. Maybe I would write ONE more to finish up my article on Hockey.

I would completely focus of the reason where and why the Indian Hockey failed and what was the reason for it. Secondly I would focus on what are the exact things to be done and ought to be done to bring it to the parallel where the Hockey stands. Finally what are one or two things needed most as a change that the World that rules and runs the Hockey ought to bring. I shall start one by one first to point where and what were the reasons and the point where Indian Hockey failed.

The very first reason is Indian Hockey from 1956 was DIVIDED into THREE parts. The First was the Punjab domination in India Hockey. All of a sudden with Mr Balbir Singh Senior finding that groove it was imagined that Punjab is the HEART of Indian Hockey , and it was an idea which was all wrong but here at India that was the feeling that surfaced.

Balbir Singh Senior was a GREAT Hockey player. However he became GREAT because of - :

1 ). K.D.Singh Babu who made him GREAT. K.D.Singh Babu was as GREAT as Roop Singh or Major Dhyanchand. Balbir Singh  Senior was nowhere near his ability. However at the London Olympics and as in the Helsinki Olympics , K.D.Singh Babu as per the advice given to him by Major Dhyanchand gave away his scoring abilities. Babu could have played in the Centre Forward position where Balbir Singh played. But upon the advice of Major Dhyanchand on the tour of East Africa, Dhyanchnad looking into the future of Indian Hockey, advised Babu to either play at the outside right or in the inside right so that he keeps on opening goal scoring opportunities for India and if he plays in those position the Indian team will benefit by sky. Babu gave up his ambition to score but to create and it was Balbir Singh Senior who kept on scoring and earning those names. Else K.D. Singh Babu would have been the Dhyanchand of post Independence era , a title which Balbir Singh Senior walked away with.

Balbir Singh could not have been Balbir Singh Senior at all in Hockey again if he did not have Raghbir Singh Bhola , a Rajagopal or a Ali Zafar to help him out there in the Forward line. These three players gave up their ambition and provided all the opportunities to Balbir Singh Senior to do and redo what makes the team to win the Gold. They provided all the passes and in gushes and galores for balbir Singh to become Balbir Singh Senior in Hockey. That was the actual reason but the Indian Hockey read it wrongly to assume that Balbir Singh  Senior was the lone reason for all that ws happening in Indian Hockey. They read it wrong inferring that Punjab was something like the MAGIC of Indian Hockey. That wrong feeling was injected into the mind of the I.H.F and all of a sudden there were a flood of Hockey players that came out from Sansarpur from Punjab. It was again interfered that these players from Sansarpur were the real BLOOD of Indian Hockey. That again was a mistake.

There were players that were emerging out of the Sundergah area of Orissa . Major Dhaynchand was in charge of the coaching assignment at Orissa . The Sundergarh area of Orissa was throwing excellent adivasis that were playing Hockey. These were not considered any hockey players at all. The reason was tthese adivasis were in fact somewhat different in their walking, eating and talking and were not educated at all to somehow make the people to understand that they were somewhat not fit to be considered something like the society accepted entity. That was the place where the Indian Hockey started thinking wrongly. There were some excellent Muslims who had started emerging from either Uttar Pradesh from the Gorakhpur area and from the Bhopal-Indore-Gwalior area but the same logic and the non acceptance of the Muslim to be as true to the Hindus for their motherland and a kind of that a kind of notion made these Adivasis and the Muslims to be neglected and that was evidently seen in Hockey. Many a good adivasi and Muslim players were not picked up for the Indian team. It went a long process and a long way which completely curbed the Indian Hockey. THAT WAS NOT SEEN IN THE PAKISTAN HOCKEY TEAM. In the 1960 Olympics at Rome , a player by the name of KIDDIE was playing at the deep defense of Pakistan and he completely blocked the moving Indian Forward who at times were trying to penetrate the Pakistani defense in that game. He was a Adivasi but a Christian adivasi and he was mainly responsible for Pakistan to stand up to the Indian pressure at Rome. That was the difference in the mental thinking. India itself DESTRUCTED the Indian Hockey.

2). Many players from Punjab chosen to represent India from 1960 to about 1984 were not at all fit to be considered of anywhere near to the class and the standard of the World Hockey then. They were either working for the Punjab police or the B.S.F Jullundur. The  connation and the connection,  of these two institution with Punjab winning the national Hockey tournament on most of the occasion made the Indian Hockey think tank to feel that the BEST of the players that play Hockey at India are from Punjab. That is why Punjab keeps on winning that championship. The reason was though the other institution or the states were not winning it was as a complete team they were not possessing that kind of many a players for them to win the team championship but on an individual basis there were many who were far better than the one’s who were playing for Punjab and who were not upto that standard required to represent India.


Pics :: Some representation of the examples of  the " MIX " of  SUDDEN-DEATH and EXTRA TIME related to the PSYCHOLOGY  that is related to   the game. 

I can state one example. There was a player by the name of Frank who played for India in the 1966 Asian games at the left-Half position. He did not allow even a SINGLE Pakistani player and even a single player from any other team to get past him in the entire tournament. He was included I the side at the insistence of goalkeeper Shankar Laxman who was leading the side and it was Laxman who insisted that he wanted Frank at the left half position. The kind of a game that Frank played was simply unbelievable. He was a stand out in the entire Asian games 1966 for India in the entire continent of Asia and that he proved by the kind of the game he played. Yet his name did not figure in the list of the probable for the 1968 Olympics. His place went to a Punjabi who was nowhere near the class of frank. This kind of a selection hampered India’s progress . These were the major hindrances and handicap.

3). India and the Indian players were somewhat at loggerhead with each other for some reason. Bengal by then was rising like a phoenix in Hockey but it was because of the fact that the two famed Bengal club Mohun Bagan and East Bengal had started bringing excellent Hockey players from outside Bengal to play for the two clubs. In 1968 Inam –Ur-Rehman , Shahid Noor  and a Muslim player by the name of Siddique joined Mohun Bagan and the trio made it to the Bengal team. Inam and Shahid Noor and especially Inam –Ur-Rehman  singlehandedly took Bengal to the semis of the 1968 nationals. Siddique from Uttar Pradesh was something  to be admired but he was not even called for the trials. Inam-Ur-Rehman found a place but was not given any place and even a chance in the 1968 Mexico Olympic to play even for a minute for India. That was something which was really unacceptable to anybody and unexplainable. Back at  home Inam Ur Rehman gave up playing Hockey for India and formed the All India Indian Airlines team. What does the Airlines do. IT FLIES AND FLIES HIGH. That is what Inam made the Airlines to do here at India. With Ashok Kumar joining them from Mohun Bagan and with B.P.Govinda joining the Indian Airlines from East Bengal there was a total and all together a different Hockey that was seen at India . With Aslam Sher Khan joining the Indian Airlines the things became very different for the Hockey in India but when it came to the All India Hockey XI the things stood out what it stood in the 1948, 1952, 1956, and 1960.That is why the Indian Hockey remained stagnant and the other nation surged ahead.It was observed in 1968 where for the FIRST time, India FAILED even to make it to the last four in the Olympics in Hockey and from there the Indian Hockey completely went to the GUTTER and again from there to the SEPTIC TANK or to the pits, but the eye were not opening for India .YES- we won the World Cup in 1975 but that was MORE because of the Maharaja Of Patiala and MORE  ABOUT IT LATER OFCOURSE LATER.

4). The Astro Turf came into the being immediately afterwards in 1975 after the World Cup Hockey in 1975.

By 1980 there were about 1000 Astro Turf of different kind and of different variety that was laid out at Holland for it’s hockey to move and grow. There were about 100 laid at Germany and about three laid at east Germany. There were about two laid out in Pakistan at Lahore and Karachi.  HOWEVER THE FIRST ASTRO TURF WAS LAID OUT AT INDIA IN 1981 FOR THE ASIAN GAMES THAT WAS TO BE HELD AT NEW DELHI.  The WORLD was practicing and then coming to play at the tournament proper and here in India it was the Indians who were playing on the EARTH/MUD and was playing on these kind of surface at abroad.  HOW CAN YOU EXPECT A TEAM TO ACHIEVE SOMETHING GREAT WHEN THERE WAS NOTHING GREAT GOING IN HOCKEY IN THE ADMINISTRATION AT INDIA.

This EXTRA-TIME really DUG the Indian Hockey for ever just like those EXTRA-TIME that KILLED Indian Hockey for ever at Mexico in 1968 or at the Asian Games at Bangkok in 1970.In the 1970 Finals of the Asian games where India and Pakistan locked the horns for 119 minutes before India was done away by that  SUDDEN DEATH goal, India in a total of 40 Long Corners and penalty Corners did NOT score even ONE goal . Mukbain Singh kept on missing ONE-AFTER-THE-ANOTHER. That again was repeated in the semis of the 1972 Olympics at Munich. Mukhbain Singh DID NOT SCORE any of the 18 penalty hits that he took. However Pakistan GOT ONE in the 1970 a clear chance and TWO in the semis at Munich of which they scored. THAT WAS THE DIFFEERNCE IN TERMS OF THE PERFECTNESS AND PRECISION THAT THEY MUSTERED AND PLANNED PLAYING INDIA. India was RUDDERLESS and INEFFECTIVE in either of it’s planning or execution because PERFECTNESS DID NOT FIND A PLACE IN THE INDIAN HOCKEY AT LL. It was just to PLEASE this and PLEASE the other .This OVER-PLEASANT – PERSONIFIED –HYSTERICAL Individuals were the reason from where the Indian Hockey completely  went into the OBLIVIOUS- OBLIVION and the stage still exists.

In 1982 when the Champion Cup Hockey was staged at Holland and where India won the BRONZE, the ONLY instance of India finishing at the podium,  after the tourney, it was Zafar Iqbal who plainly said that looking into the way the Europeans have surged in Hockey where Holland has so many Astro-Turf to practice . I DO NOT THINK WE SHOULD BE PLAYING HOCKEY AT ALL. When Zafar said this, PLAINLY WE FELT THAT HIS ENTIRE HOCKEY CAREER WOULD BE NULLIFIED TO PIECES FOR NEUTRALISATION without even using the PHENOLTHOPLIEN .Strange we were happy to see that did not happen. For had it happened everything in Indian Hockey would have been finished and would have been over.

5). Balkishen Singh was the Coach of the Indian Hockey team for the 1980 Olympics where in the absence of many a strong Hockey playing nation, we won that GOLD. He was again in the charge of the Indian Hockey in 1984 for the Los Angeles Olympics. He brought in the 4-4-2 system.

In this system the TWO FULL BACKS ought to be 100% specialist of the penalty corners. However Manohar Topno was NEVER and NOUGHT.  Vineet Kumar was SLOW and did not possess that kind of a fall back or a recovery back to the position in terms of the SPEED , and Topno was a stout defender and nothing more.

This has been the BANE of Indian Hockey. NEVER, I repeat, NEVER did the Indian Hockey played with TWO – EQUAL- SPECIALIST deep defender except the 1975 World Cup. Indian Hockey right from 1956 played with ONE of the deep defender being a specialist in the Penalty corner and the other with the quality of being a terrific defender who would not easily allow the ball to pass by him. It was right from 1956 that it started and it continued in the same fashion till about 1974 when Aslam Sher Khan and Surjit Singh together played for India in the Asian games Hockey at Tehran in 1974 only to see their pair being broken but again coming back together in 1975 and what  they did to India at Kuala Lumpur in 1975 I a HISTORY.

Exact was the opposite when Pakistan played between that period. For an example,  Pakistan had Manuzur-Ul-Hasan and Tanveer Dar in and from the period of 1968 to about 1972, thereafter came Munnawar-Uz-Zaman to continue it with Manzur-Ul-Hasan, .This continued till 1978. Then along with Manzur came Quasim Zia and after Manzur Ul Hasan left playing Hockey in 1985 for ever they had Ayaz Mehmood, Taqueer Dar to assist Quasim Zia. The result was if Manzur was failing to convert those penalty corners, then it would be Munnawar who would come in. Interchanging of the penalty corner hits by them would give them a goal from the deep defenders. Once they completed that quota the midfielders would rise to the occasion to give them the goal from their position and thereafter it would be the Forwards who would , ie the attackers who would do the same for their team. This also was there with the other team as well to see. The Ian Bell – Hammond of Australia, the Thies Kruize, Bob Baouman and thereafter the Paul Litjen- Bob Bouman of Holland, the Michael Krause and Allan Stroeder of West Germany were the prime example.

Here in the Indian Hockey there would be ONE who NOT-AT-ALL would be the specialist as we would call them but who would be construed as such. Mukhbain Singh was  NEVER a specialist but we made it. The other one Michael Kido was never given to test his ware as he would stoutly defend. When you play with a 50% STRENGTH of your  deep defender to hit those penalty corners you would get even LESS than 10 % of the result from the same. This continued to plague the Indian Hockey and everybody could see that BUT BOT THE INDIAN HOCKET THINK TANK from 1956 to 1975.That was the reason India could not win any GOLD after 1956 in succession that it won from 1928 to 1956 in succession. Take the example of the 1968 Olympics at Mexico. Gurbax Singh could not convert even a single penalty corners out of the 21 hits he took. He was th JOINT CAPTAIN of that indian Hockey team in the 1968 Mexico Olympics. His other partner Prithipal Singh who was the Joint captain of that team had scored SEVEN out of the seven are games he played in the entire Olympics.  Comp[are it with Pakistan where Tanveer dar and his other partner mixed scored 11 . In the finals Pakistan scored through rashid Junior and  Asad Mallik and but the Australian goal was scored by their deep defender. THIS HAS BEEN THE GREATEST HINDRANCE OF INDIAN HOCKEY.



Pic - :: The Indian Team Of The Moscow Olympics That Fetched Us the last Gold Medal 

I shall cite another example. Against Pakistan when we lost by 2-0 at Munich in the semis, and when Mukbain Singh was failing to find the net at all, why was Michael Kindo not asked to take at least one or two chances. In that Olympics Michael Kindo had scored THREE goals during the group encounters. Again why was Aslam Sher Khan was not played even in any of the games at Munich. If it was that he was so raw and young at the age of 17 to represent India then why did you select him at all for that Olympics. Mukbain Singh was a total disaster for india at that Olympics. Except for that HATTRICK against Australia he failed to come up against any team which was better than India. If India was scoring the goals it was because the forward line as well as the  half line was scoring those goals for India .  Pakistan totally exposed the UNIMAGINATIVE game the Indians were playing for all the time. It was because the manager of the team Keshav Dut who was a Punjabi was more into adopting the Punjabi mode of the play, putting his points over the points of K.D.Singh Babu who was the Chief Coach and that ploy was so well read by the opponents that they would nullify all the Indian attacks as did Pakistan in the semis, ad did Holland in the very first match that it plated against India, as did Poland against us in the group encounters, as did Kenya and New Zealand against us where we won those matches by the scar and the skin of our teeth by 3-2 each but going to the arrears every time. If we were winning those matches it was our forwards who were scoring against the expectorations. However when it came to Pakistan they clipped our wingers and made the entire team looked bugged out and ineffective to put us out of the tourney.

We played patches of excellent Hockey at Munich but overall we were bad all through.The deep defense was  weak and would cruble everytime. There was no much of a communication between the halves and trhe fill back and the halves and the forwards. The line of communication between the defenders and their imagination was very poor.Pakistan totally exposed it in the semis. We speak a lot but we fool ourself while speaking for Indian Hockey about the Munich Olympics.  We put it across the Isreali murders and the Palestine’s killing them as our reason of failure but there was many a flaw in that team. Luck that we were to have won that Bronze or else it would have been a BIG-ZERO there itself.


Pic - :: Pakistan Player about to smash a ball into the Indian net

Look into the picture of the Pakistani player on the verge of hitting that ball into the Indian goal.That is Tanvir Dar who is all about to hit that ball into the India net.

Look at the Indian goal. The goalkeeper Manuel Fredricks is standing at ONE corner of the left hand side of the post. Actually he should have been standing at the centre. Look into the Indian defender who has rushed to stop that ball from the hit being taken by Tanvir. He is Perumal Krisnamurthy, Look into his eye and his head. His eye is somewhere else NOT looking at the ball, whereas he should have been looking at the ball. When your eye is away from the ball which the opponent defender is going to hit, how can you place your stick right across the ball for the ball to be deflected and prevented entering the goal. Look into the Indian defenders. One is placed somewhere at the centre and the other one is placed right on the left hand post. The right hand post is TOTALLY vacant.  Just see one of thee Sardarji is totally at the back on the Left hand side of the GOAL BOARD where the ball hits the back of the goal post for the Umpire to count it as a goal, wherein he should have been guarding the Right Hand side of the goal .THIS IS A TOTAL UNIMAGINATIVE-DONKEY-LEVEL-OF-THINKING of a SARDARJI style of playing Hockey. Tanveer Dar just dribbled the onrushing Indian defender as his eye was NOT at all on the ball, and finding the right hand side of the goal open hit that one to put Pakistan 2-0 up and OUST India by every mean from that tournament. If India earned as many as 18 penalty corners and could not score ONE it was because the Pakistanis were HEAD-ALL while thwarting the Indian attack when those situation arose. We have been playing Hockey with NONSENCE guarding us for most of the time be it selecting the team, be it deploying the tactics, be it strategizing ourself as against the odds, or anything. We were completely LAID BACK in playing the same old style of Hockey of the fifties and the early sixties or the sixties during the era of the seventies when Hockey was fast changing and everything in Hockey was changing. For most of the time we would often place the mistakes that we did it on the referees and the press or the Indian media too would support these BULLSHITS for everything but the fact is WE WERE NOT SELECTING THE RIGHT METHOD TO BE ON THE RUN   TO PLAY THE CHANGING HOCKEY AT ANY MOMENT. Pakistan was changing and applying the changes fast. Their coaches were moulding their players according to the need of the game. There might have been players who were not upto that standard required and were finding a place in the team, but when it came to play the TEAM-GAME they appeared to be a FITTER than the FIT to play and jell with the team. That was the reason why Pakistan enjoyed that  kind of a SUCCESS from 1978 to 1984 when they except the Esanda Internationals in 1983 won all the important title of Hockey in the World including the Olympics 1984 at Los Angeles .They were quick to read the change, very quick to ADOPT those changes and they believed in a TEAM game rather than playing the individual game.

6). We were not playing to fit into the schemes of the team at all. Most of the time it openly, when we would see on the TV set made us to feel that the synchronization between the team was not at all there. We would over do the acts on the Hockey field. Pakistan had so many class of a dribblers from 1978 to 1984 but they would NOT hang with the ball. One or TWO or at the most THREE dribbles, here and there and in a splash the ball would go to the one who would concrete the attack and build the pressure on the opponent to create those opening. They would score from that. That was the reason they even scored 12 goals against teams like New Zealand in the world Cup 1981 at Bombay. Here we would HANG with the ball to much, would not pass the ball at the FIRST time, would give the opponent to GHERAO us the attackers ie to allow the defenders and the opponents to recoup and group themselves up in the striking circle to allow them to defend and to thwart our attack and thus make a mess out of the same. While doing so the Indian would be happy to earn those penalty corners hoping to score of them but we when we would see al these happening on the screen we would know that NOTHING would come out of those BULL-SHIT penalty corners. Between 1978 to 1984 70% of the scoring by the Pakistani team was done by their forwards , here 70% of the penalty corners were missed by our deep defenders – THATWAS THE MAJOR DIFEFERNCE. We would TALK so HIGH about Merwyn Fernandes when he would move with the ball at the opponent circle, built what would come out of it. NOTHING. The result was that TOO MUCH OF HANGING would allow the opponent and their defenders to encircle the Indians at the “D” and the resultant penalty corners would go a begging – Pakistan and the others once they entered the “D” they would go back banging the ball in the Indian goal. That was the reason why India kept on losing to the much fancied opponents conceding as many as seven goals and in one game against Australia in the World Cup we conceded as many as TEN. In the finals of the Commonwealth games Australia banged EIGHT without we replying. The only result ands the only reason is WE STILL HAVE NOT ADOPTED OURSELF AND HAVE AN INDEPTH MIND OF BELIEVING THAT WE ARE PLAYING THE RIGHT KIND OF A GAME.

Mostly the players  selected for the team of India and especially from the 1988 Olympics- most of them are POOR runners. The speed is totally lacking. Over it we still hang to much with the ball still relying on that OLD-TRADITIONAL game when it comes to playing Hockey on the EVER-CHANGING-ASTRO TURF. That will NEVER help us at at and at any moment .We need to change our game and our mindset if we are to do anything better rather than hoping to play those SARDARJI style of playing or the Punjabi style of playing those LAID-BACK-OLD-APPROACH of playing this game.

The Adivasis and The Uttar Pradsehi Muslims and Hockey

The adivasis or the tribes that plays Hockey at the Sundergarh area of Orissa or Jharkahnd or Bihar are endowed with a very tight and are very stubborn mindset with a very rich stamina that they possess right from their growing stage and play play on the field to start with barefooted to play Hockey. That makes their feet very strong and they play on the uneven surface where the paddy are grown and after the harvest for most of the time they play Hockey on those a kind of surface. They have to control the ball on those kind of surface. That is how they learn to control, move very fast and play always an attacking kind of a game.

The Muslims of Uttar Pradesh generally follow the tactics that was applied by say K.D.Singh Babu or Dhyanchand and they tune themselves to that a kind of a game. One of the reason why there were so many a Muslims who were a treat to watch when they played that kind of a game because those coaches moulde d them to the style of playing Hockey like Dhyanchand and K.D.Singh babu would play, or afterwards Ali Zafar and Zafar Ali would play. Ali Zafar played for Indian in the 1948, 1952 and the 1956 Olympics winning THREE Golds and Zafar Ali had played for India in the 1932 and in the 1936 Olympics beside Dhyanchand winning TWO Golds. Both were from Gorakhpur and both studied at the Aligarh Muslim University lest in 1947 after the partition Zafar Ali mover to Pakistan.

Their Hockey deed are still impressed on the sand of Uttar Pradesh. Most of the Boy’s coming out from Uttar Pradesh from the Sports Hostel a Hostel which was initiated by K.D.Singh Babu and from where we got the likes of Mohammed Shahid, Mohinder Pal Singh,  S.A.H.Abdi, Mohammed Naim, Sujit Kumar , Mohammed Azzizuddin, were all the product of the Sports Hostel. Lucknow. They played that Dhaynchand-Babu-Ali Zafar kind and style of the game and they have been moulded into that frame. It is one of the REASON that one would find and we would see these players using their WIRST to the HIEGHT of the SKY where there was and where there is BEAUTY every time waiting for ONE to see it.

These payers when they were mingled with the boy’s coming either from Bombay, Punjab to cite and with one or two adivasis could not jell with them as the Pakistani that we saw jelling with the guys that came from either Multan or Lahore or Karachi.The reason is Pakistan had a SAME and a ONE method of moulding their players that played for their team. Here the line of thinking was and has been  very different. Inpite of Merwyn and Shahid playing together for so many a years from 1980 to 1988 we could NOT win any major tournament except the 1980 Olympics. Every time we were ROUNDED and HOUNDED off by a tennis scores in the finals. Pains us to say and for me to write, Pakistan  defatted us by defeating us by 7-1 in the finals of the Asian games, Australia beat us by 6-1 in the Esanda Internationals in 1983, Australia again beat us by 6-1 in the World Cup in 1986, we finished 12th out of the 12 teams playing in the 1986 World Cup. Even inspite the fact we had such tremendous players like Mohammed Shahid, Pargat Singh, Mohinder Pal Singh, Joaquim Carvalho, Merwyn Fernandes, L.Tikken Singh, Thoiba Singh,  Jagbeer Singh who came from the Meerut from the Sports Hostel schemes and who really was a very good striker, we could not impress at all to the World about our real strength of Hockey . Never did we do anything to really find the real cause of the same.

The real cause was we were INDULGING in too much of hanging around with the ball and were not passing the ball at the first occasion, we call it FIRST-TIME-PASS at all to create that many a holes and the pressure on out opponent and also that we were not attuning ourself to the need of the  game. Pakistan in real were and would PLAY for the team. Here we were not really in the proper shape of the mind to win anything. We were rudderless and directionless and some of them were not good enough to play or represent India at all .They were a total misfit to fit into the schemes of either a Joaquim Carvalho, or a Merwyn Fernandes . That really dug us deep and hit us hard. Joaquim Carvalho would have been a resounding success in the name of Hockey but nobody remembers him now. In retrospect many talk about Ishtiaque Ahmed of Pakistan.It is because the others especially Hasan Sardar jeeled with him to make his name ultimately making his own for Pakistan and it’s Hockey. There were many misfit in the Indian Hockey playing for India between 1977 to 1988 .

I was talking to a WORLD FAMOUS player from Holland and he was Bouwman who was a WORLD CLASS HOCKEY player and a world class penalty specialist. He plainly had told me- IF WE HAD MERWYN FERNANDES AND MOHAMMED SHAHID WITH US FROM 1979 TO 1990 WE WOULD HAVE WON ALL THE TITLES OF THE WORLD OF HOCKEY.

The same view was echoed by Ishlauddin saying that- AGAR SIRF SHAHID HAMARE PASS HOTA TOH WALLAH KYA BAAT THAA KYA BAAT HOTA, which means if only we had Shahid with us MY GOODNEES- what WOULD HAVE BEEN THE SCENARIO AT PAKISTAN AND OF PAKISTAN HOCKEY. He later added  we do not need a Merwyn for Hasan  Sardar. We only needed ONE Mohammed Shahid and that was ENOUGH for us. Here at India  WE WENT ON TO SAY THAT- WE/ I DO NOT CONSIDER THAT ONE AS A HOCKEY PLAYER AT ALL WHO IS A FATHER OF THREE CHILDRENS when Mohammed Shahid was displaced of the post of the CAPTAINSHIP of the Indian Hockey team which was rightfully his for the Olympics 1988 the  Seou  Olympics .

I would continue this article perhaps ending it tomorrow with certain rules that forcible came into the world Of Hockey and the changes where India totally failed to adopt and change for itself to be completely rubbed off from the memory and the field of Hockey. NOBODY PRAISES INDIAN HOCKEY ANYMORE. The reason is WE OURSELF HAVE KILLED OUR HOCKEY.

Well , that is it and That sums it all.

Regards and Thanks

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Shyamal Bhattacharjee 

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 .






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