Shocking Yet True :: Swami Vivekananda , Major Dhyanchand and K.D.Singh Babu -They Really Played Cricket

 

Pic - :: Narendra Dutta Alias Swami Vivekananda In Action In A Club Cricket match 

Shocking Yet True ::   Swami Vivekananda , K.D.Singh Babu, And Major Dhyanchand They Really Played Cricket 

Might sound  so unusual. It might go to prove that the author who is writing this is an INSANE with all his brain gone to the place which could  be termed as spittoon box or a septic tank . . Yet some of the TRUTHS needs many many and many more years to write it with all the necessary proof placed for the people to read and feel AMAZED, or maybe EXCITING . This is what my blog page stands for and this is what I feel to do in my blog page.

Amazing, to describe, and some  job which really would sparkle are some of the things that everybody wishes and does it and in that matter I’m no different. This article is all about the same.

Swami Vivekananda Plays cricket ? Can anybody believe that ? . Would you believe that. Two Hockey GEMS of India  and WIZARDS , Major Dhyanchand and Kunwar Digvijay Singh Babu played cricket to horne their Hockey skill. OH !!!!!! goodness, playing Cricket to horn and sharp their Hockey skill ?. MAD IS IT- MAD HE IS ,  INSANE OF THE FIRST ORDER is what the people might think.!!. Is is not ?. But this is true and the pictures posted here actually proves it right and me VERY TRUE for the facts written.

Narendranath Dutta Alias Swami Vivekananda Played Cricket To  . ?????. !! ..

Swami Vivekanada was the name given to him by Ramakrishna Paramhamsaha , his teacher, his philosopher, his guru. His  actual name was Narendranath Dutta.

Today we see the Edens Gardens. Many a years ago in 1880 that ground so big  in shape and probably ONE OF THE BEST CRICKETING GROUND that rocks the world,  then in the 1880 was a ground where on the non weekend days, people would gather there with their families to spend a beautiful evening engaged in a sort of picnic. However on the holidays, that very place would see many a kids playing either Football or cricket as the case would be.

That  very  ground between 1880 and 1888 saw many cricket tournament being played over there on a one day basis.  Slowly it turned out to be what we call it as EDENS GARDENS 

Between the  time when Narendra Dutta, alias Swami Vivekanada was crossing the age of 16 and entering 17, he registered himself with the Town Club, Calcutta, then and he played a match for them against the Cricket Club of Calcutta , which then was even known by the name of C.C.I Calcutta.

A left arm tweaker, Narendranath Dutta alias Swami Vivekananda took seven ( 07 ) wickets  in that innings in that game for his club. His bowling action is depicted here for the readers to see it as a proof. Just watch his action, after the delivery is bowled, ie, his follow through. Look into his eye pinned on the flight of the ball. That is what was he as a cricketer, as a bowler ?...... That should give you an imagination of what was he as a cricketer. !! . !!

After playing some games for Town Club, then,  Narendra Dutta completely gave up playing cricket. The reason was THIS IS A GAME THAT SHOULD NOT BE PLAYED AT ALL IN A COUNTRY LIKE INDIA. It completely wastes and damages your time, and puts the entire day into a loss. A country like India cannot afford to  do that as that will put the Indians and his day for that day behind by 24 hours, he said.

 A NATION THAT WILL PLAY THIS GAME WILL NEVER BE SUPERFLOUS, HE REMARKED.

 ON THE CONTARARY HE SAID- IF FOOTBALL IS PLAYED BY ANYBODY HE MIGHT ATTAIN " SALVATION  " , HE STATED, AND FOOTBALL IS THE GAME ONE SHOULD PLAY . 

Strange- we boast and talk about following his principles. No sooner that there is an election, all the leaders are seen talking and boasting about to follow his principles. STRANGE- NOBODY FOLLOWS HIS PRINCIPLES ON CRICKET. 

Pic-:: Major Dhyanchand In A Club  Cricket match Against The Bradman Team At Australia 

Major Dhaynchand Played Cricket  To Horne his DRIVES

 It would surprise many and many would not believe that. Dhyanchand during the off-season at times played cricket. He never would put on  the gloves on for playing the game. He would bat without donning the gloves.

During the Australian tour of India Hockey team ,  with Major Dhyanchand leading India, then, Donald Bradman heard about this man. The Indian Hockey team was to play a match at  Queensland , Australia and there was a match that was to be played  between Queensland and Tasmania and Donald Bradman listening to or hearing to that Dhyanchand was there at Queensland to play a game, went to meet him. Dhyanchand was very pleaed to meet him.

During the conversation, Bradman asked him-  DO YOU PLAY CRICKET ? . Only a few games at the off-season just to horne my drives in Hockey, relied Dhyanchand .Bradman could not believe that. He just asked him to play a few shots so that he could see and believe that. Agreeing upon, Bradman took Dhyanchand to a cricketing field nearby and asked him to pad on. He was surprised to see Dhyanchand not donning the batsman gloves. CRICKET SHOULD NOT BE PLAYED WITHOUT DON- NING THE GLOVES said Bradman  as that is against the rules and the law of the game. Dhyanchand replied that I do not play professional cricket and I do not need to wear the gloves and so I   do not wear that.

Mr Mahendra Singh Dhoni- CRICKET SHOULD NOT BE PLAYED WITHOUT DON- NING THE GLOVES said Bradman   and PLEASE remember the T-20 World Cup cricket about what did you do against Bangladesh in that match to win that match by unfair mean ? You are a overbilled UNETHICAL cricketer Mr Dhoni . . 

Well, Bradman asked Johnston who was a first change bowler after Ray Lindwall and Keith Miller for the Australian team to bowl to Dhyanchand . He asked Johnston to bowl to Bradman and the first ball Dhyanchand faced, he cover drove Johnston which amazed Bradman. He was surprised to see that the first ball that Dhyanchand faced, of that Aussie Test cricketer,  he drove him with the meat of the bat hitting the ball so correctly and perfectly.

“ YOU SCORE THE GOALS AS FAST IN HOCKEY,  AS I SCORE MY RUNS THAT FAST  IN CRICKET ”  

Dhyanchand till the end of his life considered that compliment from Bradman as the BEST-EVER that he received from any International sportsman. 

 

Pic- :: Photo Of K.D.Singh Babu," HELMS AWARD " Winner when he was two (02) years of age 

K.D.Singh Babu :: Received A Hockey Stick As A Gift When " TWO " , ( 02 ) Years Of Age , Won TWO Olympic Gold

Would you believe me when I say that the picture that you see here is of Kunwar Digvijay Singh Babu . He is the ONLY Indian to win the HELMS award , which was instituted for the Helsinki Olympics in 1952 to be awarded to the BEST OLYMPIAN and the BEST ASIAN OLYMPIAN for the 1952 Olympics that was played at Helsinki.

At the age of two , his parents, out of the sheer love and affection for him gifted a Hockey stick which was made of plastic and a rubber ball.

He started playing with it everyday  at and on his verandah at Barabanki, near Lucknow at his ancestral house. When 16 he made it to the Indian team for Afghanistan and scored the HIGHEST, a total of 39 goals in that tour for India.

K.D.Singh Babu at times played CRICKET at the nets with a HOCKEY STICK. UNBELIEVABLE to even think and feel about the same – but that is true.

Once when he was playing at Hyderabad for his Uttar Pradesh team, M.L.Jaisimha who came to the field in 1954-55 saw him playing cricket with a Hockey stick. Babu was middling all the deliveries bowled at him exactly at  the mid of the stick and the ball use to be  DEAD when he middle that.

Pic - The Paperclipping Of K.D.Singh Babu and his talks with M.L.Jaisimha 

SURPRISED-  Jaisimha asked him, BABU HOW DO YOU DO THAT. Even the BEST of the cricketers will never be able to do it that accurately, with the broad bat ,  the way you are doing it with your stick. Middling the ball so accurately by the bat is not possible and you are doing it with your  hockey stick ? .

Jai- replied Babu,  I at times go to the nets and play cricket with my HOCKEY STICK. This I have  been doing it since 1940 to stop the penalty corners shot taken. I always stop it with the mid of the stick, DEAD when I play Hockey and to horne my skill, I ask the cricketers who are the bowlers to bowl me at the nets and I stop the cricket ball DEAD with the stick, with the ball always hitting my stick at the middle. This act of mine has helped me to stop – and -  thwart  all the penalty corners shot taken against India in International matches that I play for India.

Here in the picture, that plastic Hockey stick, and the ball gifted to him on his second birthday is seen/ can be seen and the readers may  see that .

K.D.Singh Babu was gifted this two elements of Hockey at the age of two, and he won TWO Hockey Olympics ,  Gold for India .If the WORLD WAR - II had not taken place , he would have ended winning FOUR in 1940, 1944, 1948 and 1952 with him leading the Indian Hockey team in 1948 and 1952. 

Pic - : C.V.Walters Praising The Dribbling Skill And It's  Art That K.D.Singh Babu Possessed 

His dribbling was a POETRY in motion. After him if at all we saw that kind of a GRACEFUL dribbler, it was Ashok Kumar Dhyanchand and thereafter it was the MAGIC of all, the MAGICAL- DELIGHT,  Mohammed Shahid who was discovered by K.D.Singh Babu when he was chosen to select a bunch of 22 Hockey players from the age between 13 to 17 to groom them at the Sports Hostel Lucknow between the period of 1976 to 1977 . . 

When it came to dribbling, Major Dhyanchand was a MAGNET, K.D. Singh Babu was a CLASSICAL  DELITE, Ashok Kumar was GRACEFUL and EYE-BITCHING and Mohammed Shahid was a MAGICAL DELIGHT. That was and those wee  the FOUR pillars of Uttar Pradesh Hockey's GIFT to Indian Hockey. 

Factors Of Surprise-::

Still, even after almost 75 years of our Independence, it is so very PAINFUL to see that Major Dhyanchand and K.D.Singh Babu have NOT been conferred the BHARAT RATNA which both the EYES’ OF INDIAN HOCKEY strictly and RICHLY deserve. Just imagine Donald Bradman complementing Dhyanchand the manner in which he equalized and put Dhyanchand in the same place as the WORLD had put Bradman as a sportsman , then, in the place where Bradman was considered to be the BEST SPORTSMAN in the world.

Plainly speaking- WE DO NOT RESPECT AND CARE FOR OUR WORLD’S BEST WHICH K.D. SINGH BABU AND DHYANCHAND WERE DURING THEIR PLAYING DAYS.

Both- K.D. Singh Babu and Major Dhyanchand deserve the  BHARAT RATNA and Captain Roop Singh deserves the Padma-ViBhushan  for their contribution to Indian Hockey and it’s development in India .

I really hope that this year they would be conferred by the awards, with Ashok Kumar Dhyanchand , also being conferred the Padma Shri,  and make the nation go DELIRIOUS and WILD in enjoyment and celebration of the same. 

Will the Indian Government rise to the occasion-  WELL THAT IS A QUESTION OF CONJECTURE ??

That is it 

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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