Indian Hockey Murdered :: It’s a COMPLETE end of Indian Hockey - The " REAL " Truth ....

Pic :: The Real " TRUTH Of Indian Hockey In 1979.....

Indian Hockey Murdered :: It’s a COMPLETE end of Indian Hockey

It was such a situation and it was purposefully done. It happened in 1985 when India was done away in the SECOND ASIA CUP finals at Dhaka against Pakistan . It all started during the National Hockey championship which was played ay Hyderabad in 1979 and with Surjit Singh leading that Airlines team which won that Championship- one saw FISTS and BLOWS emerging out in that championship which dished a very POOR Hockey then, and the full to fill it with WOES were witnessed in the Asian Cup Hockey at Dhaka in 1985 and the next two write ups would be on that by me..... Let me start from the START of the FINSH of our Hockey in this article...

I would fall back to that incident but again it makes an interesting reading about our Hockey from the debacles of the Asian games in 1982 at New Delhi to 1985 when PURPOSEFULLY our Hockey was KILLED and then the end which saw the very end of the same in the Seoul Olympics in 1988.

The Gold medal at the Moscow Olympic well for me it is not very possible to downgrade the same and the standard of a GOLD medal which one wins at the Olympics  however whether the shine of the same was as equivalent to the Gold of anything is a debatable question for me. As many as seven very strong and powerful playing nation of Hockey had boycotted that event of Hockey and though played on a Round Robin League finally India won the title defeating Spain in one of the most pulsating finals by 4-3 with the Spaniards Juan Amat scoring a hattrick in the finals yet finding to see itself finishing on the losing side.

India after the Olympics at Moscow saw it’s Captain Vasudevan Bhaskaran being ousted from the side. A lot of hue and cry was made over this axing of Bhaskaran and it was again the old warhorse Surjit Singh who was inducted to the side to lead India.

It was a real head scratching note for everybody to find and for everybody to see that Surjit Singh who actually was over the hill was leading India. All the players who had started with Surjit Singh were no more playing for India. They were all axed with the pretext that they were not fit enough to play for India. The glaring example was Ashok Kumar who was in the best of his runs and forms and inspite of India finishing FIFTH in the Esanda World Cup at Australia where India did lose to Holland by 3-2 after taking a 2-0 lead and against Australia by 3-2 after taking a 2-0 lead, where Ashok Kumar was adjudicated as the BEST player for these two matches played , he was all of a sudden axed from the Indian team.

During that Esanda International Hockey, which is also known as Esanda World Cup Hockey, a new award was introduced and it was the MAN-OF-THE-MATCH award after every game that a team plays.  One who plays the best of the game in a match for his team and amongst the best team would be awarded that prize and this was a NEW system of  award which was brought into the game. Ashok Kumar won it against Australia where India lost to them by 2-3 and against Holland  where again India lost by 2-3.

Ridiculous that one might say , a team prepare itself for atleast 90 days together before putting it’s feet  for the tourney but this team for the First Esanda was put into place for practice for only 20 days. CAN ANYBODY IMAGINE A TEAM PRACTISING TOGETHER FOR ONLY TWENTY DAYS AND PLACING ITSELF FOR THE TOURNEY. This is the kind of the functionaries that the I.H.F had it with them,  and this is how the Indian team used to be selected and was selected for that International Hockey tourney .

The notable feature of that team is that Surjit Singh was the TOP SCORER for India in that tourney along with Bob Cattral of Great Britain . Both ended scoring 11 goals in the entire tournament . Surjit Singh and Ashok Kumar , both who played for Indian Airlines then could achieve those individual meet as the Indian Airlines team that assembled for the Hyderabad Hockey National at that time, for Indian Airlines, put in hours and hours of practice together.

To what extent India was outdone at the Esanda Cup Hockey in 1979 was and would be gauged by the fact that India conceded as many as 83 Penalty Corners to it’s opponent and there were as many as 53 direct hit into the Indian goal. The deep defense was completely out of gear. It was because Dung Dung was not playing for India for some reason. He was not there in the team. If he was  , then , Dung Dung along with  Surjeet would have kept the thing in control but the very new deep defender who was assisting Surjit in the defense was a raw material altogether and he was LOST and CONFUSED when the opponent attacked.

To add to the problem was the INEFFECTIVE midfield where Vasudevan Bhaskaran could not get any support from Robert Claudius who was playing his FIRST real tournament on the Astro turf and could not adjust himself suitably. Obvious  and very true .If you have to play on the Astro turf without practicing here at India you would be found wanting and in India till then, there was NO Astro turf being laid at any time. Robert Claudius was a very fine and a GOOD player who was playing for the Indian airlines and he had put up a sterling display at the Nationals at Hyderabad but not possesing any experience of the Astro turf proved his undoing. 

It was there at the Hyderabad National in 1979 when the brasses of the I.H.F decided to pursue the Indian Government to lay the Astro turf at New Delhi as the Asian games were to be held at New Delhi and by that time a  F.I.H rules had come which stated that all the International outings that would be held would be held on the Astro Turf only. The I.H.F then after the Hyderabad Nationals decided to pursue the Indian Government to lay the Astro Turf at New Delhi for the Asian games that was to   be held there.

That team for the Esanda Cup had as many as five players who had the experience of playing on the Astro Turf but the others just did not know what the Astro Turf was all about. Yet India lost TWO games to Holland and Australia by 2-3 and won two games in the Group and the remaining two in the classification, a TOTAL of FOUR to finish FIFTH and that could not be counted BAD but it was , it was BAD if not the WORST.

That team was coached by Leslie Claudius and he gave a report that the team was not playing a team game at all. It was not functioning as per the directives and the guideline at all. There  was NO TEAM play at all. The team looked very jaded and disjoint for everything. This was enough for the Federation, ie the I.H.F to discard Ashok Kumar immediately for the future plans of Indian Hockey. Ashok Kumar , it was and his so brilliant display that it was because of Ashok, India could get that many a penalty corner from where Surjeet Singh scored eleven to finish with the TOP SCORER of the tournament. Again in the very TWO important games against Holland and Australia, Ashok won the MAN-OF-THE-MATCH-AWARD or the MOST-VALUABLE – AWARD against Holland and Australia as ascribed yet he was shown the door..

 Holland in that tournament finished SECOND to Pakistan, losing to them by 2-5 in the finals and Australia had finished THIRD losing to Pakistan in the semis but beating Great Britain for the Bronze Medal. With that kind of an performance it was strange to see the I.H.F discarding Ashok Kumar.

Mukbain Singh, Michael Kindo, Aslam Sher Khan, M. P Ganesh, Harcharran Singh, Harbinder Singh, Perumal Krishnamurthy, Vece Paes, Ajitpal Singh, Charles Cornelius, Manuel Fredricks, Leslie Fernandes, Vinod Kumar, Kulwant Singh, Balbir  Singh Junior, Harmik Singh, Shivaji Pawar, B.P. Govinda,  ……. And the names goes on. These were the players who started together from 1969 in that Invitational Hockey at Bombay which I have narrated on many an occasion. Everybody were OLD and NOT-FIT to pay for India. How comes Surjit Singh was found fit  all of a sudden to play and continue to pay Hockey for India after 1980 and was the captain of1, then for the World Cup Hockey in 1981 and  finally for the Asian games 1982 is REALLY like a DEVIL enjoying HONEY MOON with an ANGEL at the beaches at BORA-BORA or maybe ay BALI ie Bali at Indonesia .For that was Indian Hockey and it’s brain.

The Hyderabad Hockey National Championship in 1979  was a championship which saw the WORST in terms of the performance by the teams participated. There were fists and the blows used after some important games.  It was a poor performance by almost all the team participating and there was nothing which could be termed as the traditional manner of the famed Hockey of the Golden days which were dished out . There wasn’t any constructive moves, there was no real team play. It was all individual performance and even if Indian Airlines won, it was more because of the Penalty Corner that was taken by Surjit Singh for the Airlines and the brilliant individual game play of Ashok  Kumar for the Airlines. That took them through and this was evident when India played in the Esanda Internationals.

I’m placing here a PAPER Cartoon of the JOKE or the caricature that was flashed in a Newspaper about the standard of the  Hockey and it’s game that was flashed in the 1979 National’s at Hyderabad. That spoke all about the manner that this game was progressing as far as Hockey for India was concerned. If Airlines won the national in 1979 at Hyderabad it was because Surjit Singh everyday would practice hitting 200 penalty corners to the goal and that was the reason for him to be so successful in the Esanda International .

 Back here after Ashok Kumar was ousted, the I.H.F felt that with Surjit Singh so marvelous in converting the penalty corners into the goals, it would be better to head him with the responsibility of leading India in the future Internationals, as his penalty corners would be an added advantage for India. He was announced the captain of the Indian Hockey team immediately afterwards after India won the Olympics Gold at Moscow.

What surprised everybody was the fact that  Surjit Singh was not considered at all for the Moscow Olympics. The Captainship for that Games went to Vasudevan Bhaskaran. However when the team came back it was Bhaskaran who was axed and Surjit Singh  was asked to lead India. What everybody were surprised was the fact that a very fit and a very equipped Dung Dung was all of a sudden chopped out from the list of the probable and the OLD WAR HORSE Rajinder Singh was included to play alongside Surjit Singh. In between one saw Davinder Singh for a brief period between the end of the Esanda Internationals to the start of the 1981 Asian Cup , playing aside Surjit Singh, that again wasa a shocker but the I.H.F was hardly concerned .

Both Surjit Singh  and Rajinder were NOT FIT at and by any STANDRAD then to represent India, inspite of the fact that they were the Penalty Corner Specialists. However they were a NUISANCE when it came to running as the speed was NOT AT ALL THERE for these two to be considered a player by any standard. Their recovery to fall back and their speed to fall back and cover the ground was not at all there. This was a hindrance and everybody playing against them noticed that BUT-NOT-THE-INDIAN-SELECTORS. The other teams looking into the root problems of the deep Indian defenders started chalking out all the necessary method to wipe them off and Pakistan in particular improvised on many a plans and moves after watching a slow and a very weak defender to fall back to regain his position at the counter and this is what was evident at FULL when India played Pakistan in the 1982 Asian games final where it lost to Pakistan by 1-7 but I shall come to it a little after I narrate what had happened to India from 1981 to 1982 and thereafter.

Coming back to Surjit Singh, he was employed with the Indian Airlines. He in 1979 after helping win the National title,  joined the Indian Railways and playing for them in the National at Orissa at Cuttack, IF MY MEMORY SERVES ME WELL.. he helped the Indian Railways to win that Rangaswamy Cup.  The Punjab Government wanted him to play for Punjab and for the Punjab Police Hockey team. Surjit demanded NOT-LESS-THAN-A-POST of Deputy Superintendent of Police. For that post a GOLD MEDAL either in the Olympics or at the Asian Games was a mandatory fulfilment . The I.H.F by then had slowly started shifting to the North fold though Mr M.A.M Ramaswamy was still holding the edge but the internal administration slowly was moving to the grip of the Northern Indian belt. They in between them decided to axe Vasudevan Bhaskaran and bring  on Surjit Singh . They saw India with the Indian crowd and Indian support at New Delhi with Madam Indira Gandhi herself present on the ground would see India winning the GOLD at the New Delhi Asiad but it happened otherwise with Samiullah Khan and Hasan Sardar mincing India to the worst and winning that GOLD. More  about it a bit later.

Pic ::Pain Writ On Surjit Singh's face,How Hard Was It For Him To Stop Those EXPRESS Forwards 

After all the axing and taxing, Surjit Singh was brought in as a captain for the Indian Hockey team in 1981 for the Asia Cup. In that tournament which was played after the World Cup , India lost to Pakistan by 4-0 in a very lackluster encounter. The sluggishness and the slow movement of the Indian deep defender of Surjit Singh and Rajinder Singh was in view and was the point where the Pakistani watching them evolved many a variation that they invented to murder the Indian deep defense for everything.

Before that the World Cup at Bombay saw India losing to Holland by 3-4 in the group encounter after leading by 3-2 at one stage and also losing to Australia by 1-2 after leading 1-0 at the breather. In both these matches the Indian midfield and it’s synchronisation ,  with the deep defender was at it’s lowest ebb. This weakness was fully exposed and it was utilized to it’s full against Holland and Australia and the two team completely brutalisingly  murdered the Indian team taking the full advantage of the weakness that it was seen during the  game. This was because of the very sluggish and slow movement of Surjit Singh and his partner Rajinder who was assisting him beside him. There were too many a wide gap that always would accrue between Surjit Singh and Rajinder and the Indian goalkeeper was always the one to be blamed for conceding the goal.

The “ WRONG ”  that made the HOPE for India ::

It was the Champions Trophy that was held at Holland in 1982. India had FINISHED Third in that tourney ahead of Pakistan.

Came the year 1982 and came the Champions Trophy .That was held at Holland .  In that championship, India beat Germany by 3-2, beat Soviet Union by 4-2 and in one of the most stunning performance the Indian team beat Pakistan by 5-4 with the Full Back Rajinder Singh hitting a HATTRICK against Pakistan. India had lost to Holland by 2-5, to Australia by 2-7 . Conceding seven goals started against West Germany in the 1978 World Cup and then  in between 1978 to 1982 India had lost to Pakistan thrice including that Asian Games conceding seven goals and India on some more occasion had conceded seven goals to it’s formidable opponent. THAT WAS NOT SEEN AT ALL IN ANY RETROSPECT BY ANY INDIAN SELECTORS , but scoring and hitting that FIVE goals and winning that game against Pakistan by 5-4 to win that BRONZE was considered something very EXTRAORDINARY , though it was NOT.  That mistake again took India Hockey to a very LONG level of HIGH thinking and that Bronze infact was  as if  something to be very GREAT though it was NOT and it gave an extended rein to Surjit Singh and Rajinder Singh in the deep defense.

The World Cup Hockey at Bombay, then, which was played on the GRASS , which was the last when an International Hockey tournament was played at grass saw India failing to even qualify for the semis. The only CONSOLATION was Mohammed Shahid was adjudicated as the BEST PLAYER of that tournament. Thereafter it was the First Asian Cup Hockey where India had lost to Pakistan by 4-0 in the finals. This was seen maybe at the hindrance or maybe at the hindsight but that VICTORY over Pakistan by 5-4 and that BRONZE the ONLY for India so far in the Champions Cup was made to be seen as if INDIAN HOCKEY was at the NINTH SKY for all , and that victory made everybody to  feel that India had an outstanding chance  to WIN the Asian games Title at New Delhi. Surjit Singh, was continued and any aspiration that the I.H.F had with Surjit Singh as the man to lead for theirs dream to be fulfilled also continued. Strangely the man who made that VICTORY against Pakistan possible, Rajinder Singh was dropped from the Indian squad and all of a sudden Manohar Topno in the deep defense with Surjit Singh was the only change made.

 Both Surjit Singh and Rajinder Singh were very slow in their recovery. Beaten by their opponent or if the ball would be snatched from him, or any of the two defenders that I have mentioned, the would find it very hard to fall back to recover their lost ground.The Astro turf as a playing surface needs the most fittest players in terms of falling back and recovering their ground. The Indian defenders from 1981 to 1988 when players like Surjit Singh, Rajinder Singh, Vineet Kumar, Mohinderpal Singh were playing for India, were too sluggish and too very slow of their feet. However they only plus point was the penalty corner conversion that they were doing and in that arena Mohinderpal Singh was perhaps the GOD for everything. By the time he arrived the World Of Hockey saw the other rule to intercept the progress of Asian Hockey when it brought in the system of goalkeeper falling flat , ie , sleeping in an manner with their balance resting on the arms, to negate and stop the penalty corners,  that was the kind of an system brought by the F.I.H to allow the goalkeepers to save the penalty hit and then that came in – the SCOOP kind of a penalty push which completely took the Asian Hockey to it’s burial from where the Indian as well as the Asian Hockey did not …….. IT WAS RAM NAAM SATYA. The DRAG-FLICK darted to drag  the Asian Hockey to the BURIAL and that was the end of Asian Hockey, though Pakistan made a resurgence of the same with Shahbaz Ahmed Khan leading them to a World Cup victory in 1994 but it has been 26 years from then that an Asian Hockey playing nation has NOT won an International tile, either at the World Cup or at the Olympics so far.

Asian Games Hockey 1982:: Mir Ranjan Negi Made A Scapegoat For All Wrong Doing By The I.H.F

The crown wining Gold in the Moscow Olympics, in the absence of many solid Hockey playing nation, the loss to Pakistan by 0-4 in the finals of the Asia Cup in 1982 the loss of the India-Pakistan series thereafter still did not open the eye of India.

Before the Asian Games which was to be held at New Delhi, in 1982, to provide a tonic to the Indian team and to provide a full scale match practice to them to find their feet in real, a Test Hockey series between India and Pakistan took place just before the New Delhi Asiad , and that series too was lost by India. There were one or two matches that India won but on the whole the entire series too was a GREAT loss for India.

In the Asian Games…… well before that the Pakistani again and again spiked the Indian defense with a sluggish Surjit Singh and a very slow moving Rajinder Singh always failing in their attempt to hold the rampaging and the very fast moving Pakistani’s. The I.H.F and their selectors looking at this decided to do away with the services of the veteran Rajinder Singh Senior. That was his last but he left with a HAPPY NOTE being the FIRST Indian to score a hattrick against Pakistan in any of the Internationals, the second was Dhanraj Pillay when he scored a HATTRICK against them in the final of the S.A.F Hockey at Madras in 1995 when India beat them by 5-2.

The Indian think tank felt that with Surjit Singh at his very best which he was NOT, and with his penalty corner’s taking expertise, would see India winning that GOLD. The NORTHERN BELT in the Indian Hockey felt that with Surjit Singh, if India wins that GOLD , they would again come back to the power. Surjit Singh hence was their TRUMP CARD .

 

 

Pic:: Surjit Singh

Here in the picture I’m showing the scene of a Surjit Singh with PAIN writ all across his face to stop the GUSHING Dutch player in the 1982 Champions Trophy .In that game Holland beat India by 5-2 and the fall of the fitness of Surjit Singh was noticed by everybody.

Coming back to the Asian Games, leave apart Pakistan, the Indian team was 0-1 down against Malaysia in the semis and in the first half the Malaysians totally exposed the link that was so very weak between the Goalline, the goalkeeper and the deep defense of India.

This was the Indian team for the 1982 asian Games -:

Syed Ali,  J. M. Carvalho  , Rajinder Singh Jr ,   Merwyn Fernandes ,  Jagdeep Singh Gill , Marcellus Gomes ,  Zafar Iqbal  , Romeo James,  Charanjit Kumar  , Mir Ranjan Negi , Mohammed Shahid , Vineet Kumar Sharma ,  Gurmail Singh ,  Rajinder Singh Sr , M.M.Somayya , and Manohar Topno . It was the Late Surjit Singh who was leading this team with Harmik Singh as the Chief Coach of this team.

I have italicized certain names, here that was in the list. It was a SURPRISE to find those names in the Indian team  them, Jagdeep Singh, Gurmail Singh and Rajinder Dingh Senior were JUST-NOT-GOOD-AT-ALL to play the HIGH VOLTAGE  games that was and that is required to play in the international Hockey. After the Asian  Hockey, games Final at Pakistan where India had lost to them, they were NOT playing at all in the FIRST-ELEVEN and Charanjit Kumar was not at all a member in the 1^st eleven in any games that India played in Hockey after the Olympics 1980 yet he was dragged into the side , championship after championship to be a part of the Indian team. Much fitter than him, Surinder Singh Sodhi, Gopal Bhengra and Dung Dung were sidelined to make the way for these NONSENCE players in terms of their fitness and sluggish standard then.

It would have been wiser and better to have fielded Mohammed Naim, Sujit Kumar and Hardeep Singh who was rising like anything in Hockey then, and better it could have been to field Sukhbir Singh Grewal as well in the forward line,  and also  it would have been better if India had fielded Neelkamal Singh as the Goalkeeper rather than that FICKLED MINDED and an very FREAK attitude goalkeeper Romeo James at the goal, but the SARDAR LOBBY and the OTHER LOBBY were playing more . The fact that Surjit Singh with such a poor display was playing made the WISE HEAD to think that India was NOT going to win the GOLD at any manner in these games at New Delhi.

 The semis against Malaysia exposed India’s vulnerability against the nippy and a fast moving Malaysian team which displayed a very clinical and a HIGH brand of Hockey to pulverize India in the first half, only to FAIL to Mohammed Shahid and the brilliancy of Merwyn Fernandes in the second to concede five and go out of the tourney in the semis.

In the FINALS, to EGG on the Indian confidence Mrs Indira Gandhi was brought in the stadium. She would SCREAM loudly getting from her bench to cheer every Indian moves, but SHE HAD TO LEAVE THE STADIUM when India conceded the THIRD in the very first half.

In that finals- India went ahead when Zafar Iqbal scored off a penalty. However Pakistan noticing the flaw in the Indian defense especially at the LEFT where Gurmail Singh , Surjit Singh, were simple and simply were a PARK- MORNING-WALKERS. Pakistan picked up that position and pieced holes after holes in that position completely throwing the very slow moving Gurmail Singh, and the very sluggish and a WALKER Surjit Singh into the gutter if anybody would call it, to expose a HUGE-BIG-GAP between Mir Ranjan Negi at the goal and the  deep defense. They were up by 3-1 within the break . However India made a BIG HOLE of it again when India earned the second penalty stroke and the CLEVER Shahid Ali Khan stopped that from Zafar Iqbal. That completely broke India. When there was a Syed Ali and when there was Merwyn Fernandes who was and who were a SPECIALIST of taking those stroke why was a Zafar Iqbal preferred to take that one by the Coach of the Indian team was something which again was a MYSTERY-OF-BERMUDA-TRIANGLE.  Even when you had Joaquim Carvalho playing for you, how do you think to ask a Zafar Iqbal to take that stroke?...... Only Indians and India can afford that kind of a BULLSHIT.

Pakistan were NOT playing Hasan Sardar in the first half. In the second, they brought him. It was only to add more to the SHATTERING BRAINS of the Indians. In the meantime seeing India playing such a LOUSY and a SHIT kind of a game, Mrs Indira Gandhi along with Aslam Sher Khan who was assisting her, left the stadium. Good it was as she did not see Hasan Sardar who was LIMPING on the field to score a HATTRICK. That would have brought in OCEAN of TEARS in her eye. IT WAS ONE OF THE WORST- IN- THE- HISTORY-OF-INDIAN-HOCKEY in terms of a performance that India displayed in the history of the Hockey matches that it had played.

The Indian Left side from the place where the Left half, Gurmail Singh would play, the Left deep Defender and the Left out  position in the forward line was totally exposed by the right wing  and the right half of Pakistan where Kalimullah completely cut the Indian  team into ONE-HALF  and THEIR LEFT with Samiullah to flying like a horse even at that age of 32, tearing the Indian team  into some kind of piece with his devastating runs that is simply beyond anybody’s expectations to plainly explain and describe that. . In order to stop him, the Indian faltered once inside the “D” and that penalty stroke which Kalimullah scored, the FOURTH one, took away the completely MIND and the BRAINS of the Indians. Hasan Sardar thereafter playing with 35% of fitness and limping on the ground completed his HATTRICK to send the entire nation to the burials.

People blame Mir Ranjan Negi. NO- NEVER-NEVER-AT-ALL-NEVER. I was a witness when this match was played at New Delhi on that day, December 3^rd 1982, I was at Shivaji Hockey Stadium at New Delhi. I was a witness for this match. I had covered the Football event of the Asian Games for India for the HITAVADA and I was there in the stadium for that match.

 IT – IS- A- HINDU- SHAME- AND – A HINDUTVA- SHAME- TO BLAME- MIR RANJAN NEGI- FOR THAT LOSS. SHAME to everybody to blame Negi the Indian Goalkeeper for that loss. It was the Indian Coach Harmik Singh, it was the very very wearingly WELL, Gurmail Singh whose speed was as good as the snail and it was the terrific loss of mind and the form of Surjit Singh who ought to be blamed for that loss.  If India did not concede TEN, it was because of a FIT and a RARING Manohar Topno who somewhat checked the limping Hassan Sardar and in other words if Hassan Sardar was fit by 100% it would have been a  TEN-GOALS – VICTORY for Pakistan.

Both in the World Cup at Bombay in 181, and in the Asian games in 1982 , whenever Surjit Singh would fail and would be beaten , he would SCREAM- NEGI, BACHHA, BACHHA it means NEGI, SAVE AND SAVE IT  . We could realize it, the entire Indian media would realize it and hear that but NEVER the Indian selectors . They kept on moving and persuading with Surjit Singh who was NO MORE fit enough in any manner to play on the Astro Turf. The entire blame was put on Negi to hide the weakness of the North Indian lobby which kept on pressurizing the I.H.F for everything that was going in Hockey. The act of Surjit Singh was mentioned in FULL by the late Mr P.V.Nayudu in the HITAVADA after  he had finished covering the World Cup at Bombay but WHO CARES. It was full in view at New Delhi. The Indian team with the players italicized in the FIRST place should not have been selected at all. Those were the players of the Punjab Police and the B.S.F and that made India to pay through their nose.

Pic :: Hasan Sardar Scoring Another Goal Making The Entire Indian Defenders and Negi Watch Helplessly  .That was in the finals of the 1982 Asian Games, at New Delhi.

Here in this picture Hasan Sardar is scoring his second goal of that match against India in the Finals of the 1982 Asian games. Just watch and those who have played Hockey kindly watch it  . It is for them. There is nobody in front of Hasan Sardar to put him in a 1:1 position in front of the goal. The entire Indian defense is scattered with an open goal in front of him to score which and from where  he did score. People FOUND fault with Negi for those SEVEN goals. On that day the Indians were playing WITHOUT-HEAD and Pakistan had ROLLED all the INDIAN-HEAD on December 3rd 1982, on the day when that Finals was played at New Delhi for that Gold medal match. Clearly one can see Surjit Singh just perpendicularly behind Negi's head in the picture. He should have been facing the FACE of Hasan Sardar as a DEEP-DEFENDER to save that one. He was completely out of STEAM and ACTION against those Pakistani's on that day and that was his position from 1981 till that moment on that day still he was preferred to play and carry on leading India. Just see the face of Gurmail Singh who is standing at the goalline. He should have rushed in front of Negi to stop Hasan sardar doing any tricks, but his face shows all the plans and his MIND that was MINDLESS that day. 

I myself was a witness to that game. In that finals the RATIO of the RAMPAGING and the FAST moving Pakistani’s at everytime would be in the ratio of 5:2 against the Indians at the “D”. There was one goal which in the FRONT of an EMPTY goal that Hasan Sardar found, he KISSED his stick, went to his knee, and pushed the BALL sitting on the knee for his “ HATTRICK ”  . That was the SPEED which the Pakistani were playing with and their midfielder in that game Ishtiaque  , doing wonders,  and the kind of the time so much at his disposal ,  that Hasan Sardar was having to do anything to score that and those goals. Ishtiaque, Taqueer dar and Naeem Tahir were the one's apart from Saleem Sherwani with whom I had spend a lot of time speaking to them at Nagpur then, and there were a few Pakistani Officials  whom I had met at Nagpur in the 1981 India-Pakistan Junior Hockey series Test match and with I spoke  at that time, I met him after the game. He OPENLY said me-  INDIA KOH ITNA GANDA KHELTAY HUEY HUMNAY NAA KABHIE DEKHA AUR NA KABHIE SUNA THAA. It means  WE DID NOT SEE INDIA INDIA PLAYING SUCH A ROTTEN GAME ANYWHERE AND NIETHER DID I HEAR IT AL ALL. This Ishtiaque was the GRANDSON of Ali Ishtiaque Hasan Dara who was the member of the 1936 Olympic Gold Medal winning team and who later Captained Pakistan for the 1948 London Olympics. There was another in that team, TAQUEER DAR, the son of Munir Dar a Gold Medal Olympian of Pakistan and the nephew of Tanveer Dar , who also was and is a OLYMPIAN GOLD of Pakistan’s Hockey.  I did speak to both in the 1981 India-Pakistan Hockey match, before the match then and thereafter then. They were happy that they had won that GOLD as Ishtiaque was promised a job in the Pakistan International Airlines a and Taqueer was promised a job at the Karachi Customs as well as in the Railways at Pakistan if they returned with that GOLD, and they did. The Pakistan authorities then announced a purse of Rupees ten lakhs to Samiullah Khan , their captain for that Asian games and a PURSE of Rupees Twenty Five lakhs to Shahnaz Sheikh for their contribution to Pakistan Hockey.

I do have a TREMENDOUS respect for Surjit Singh as a Hockey player. He really was the BACKBONE of the Indian Hockey team in between the period of 1973 to about 1979, but his form had started dipping and he was NOT at all fit to play as a Deep defender at all from 1980 to 1982, yet he was played as a Captain of India. I’m placing his picture/photo here only to make the people to understand to see his face as HOW was he at LOSS for everything to contain the fast moving forwards of the WORLD then. The pains writ on his face in the picture describes it all- BUT THE BLIND EYE OF THE I.H.F WOULD NOT SEE IT

Here the Indian Hockey was RAPED and SCREWED to the worst but there the HORSES of Mr M.A.M Ramaswamy all across the World had finished winning 500 derbies. That was the gulf of the difference in terms of the history that were created in the WORLD of HOCKEY and SPORTS.

Surjit Singh was  a TOTAL  INDIAN by heart. He ultimately somehow managed that job in the Punjab Police. The Khalistan movement and the moment  took his life away. The Khalistan’s had approached him to give them a truce to do their ILL-WILL  act at Punjab and they wanted him to give that space. Refusing that THEY SHOT HIM. That is how this GREAT INDIAN HOCKEY PLAYER lost his life. Had he continued with the Indian Airlines his life would NOT have been lost. But that Dy.S.P. job took away his life.

Immediately afterwards another GREAT SON of Indian Hockey and India, Prithipal Singh who was an Administration Officer at the Punjab Agriculture University too lost his life to the Khalistani’s. They wanted the BLOCK of the University , of the Hostel for their use. He was PROMISED a LAND at Canada if he agreed and a Dollars of 2,50,000=00 if he helped them, which he DID NOT. The result was HE WAS SHOT DEAD.

 MIR RANJAN NEGI IS NOT TO BE BLAMED FOR THE DEFEAT OF NEW DELHI ASIAD.

Well for the day this NINE page of my write up I think should be enough. Tomorrow I would again continue with the same and would extend my article where Indian hockey was taken on a CHAARPAI, ie on a DEATH BED , with FOUR SHOULDERS , the Pakistani, The Dutch, The Aussies and the Germans carrying it to the graveyard. I will also discuss the 1985 Asian Cup Hockey where  INDIA WAS MADE TO LOOSE THAT MATCH PURPOSELY AND BY BRIBERY TO BE FRANK .  That beside there will be many more interesting noes that would make it a HAPPY READING, dspite tomorrow being Sunday.

Before FINSHING for the day, I would JUST add some COUPLETS for Mutthaiah Murlitharan’s view on Ashwin……

 

It is as such……

 

 SACCHAI CHHUP NAHI SAKTI HAI, BANAWAT KE  USOOLON  SE,

YEH KHUSHBOO AA NAHI SAKTI HAI, KISI KAGAAZ KE PHOOLON SE……

One who understands HINDI or a BIT of URDU can make it out, for extracting a MEANING out of the same,  the OTHERS…….

DO NOT WASTE YOUR HEAD AND MIND ON THESE MODERN DAY’S CRICKETERS …….AND THEIR..I Would say… “ LOOFY ” VIEWS AT ALL…..

I'm DESCRIBING how Indian Hockey was taken to the GRAVE-YARD by those, who ruled Indian Hockey, in my next chapter  and the CRICKET INDIA definitely is being taken to that place by these,  " LOOFING-PIMPS " ...whom we call them as MODERN DAY'S CRICKETERS......., the commentators....,  and the Administrators . 

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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