One fine day, as I saw the late Mr. Pataudi, nicknamed ‘Tiger’, India's former cricket captain, playing a hockey match at Bombay Gymkhana, I discovered that a couple realized how excellent a hockey player Tiger was and that he could have cut it through as one of the best hockey team player alike. He had long relinquished cricket yet played a dazzling game at the club that afternoon.
Later on, talking casually, he remarked, pointing to the lush green industry that the disaster of Indian hockey team is that they do not use lawn such as the one at the gymkhana. He was, in effect, horrified that the worldwide game had changed to astroturf, placing the future of the hockey league India at such a downside.
India earned 8 Olympic gold medal awards in the game of hockey. After 1980, hockey leagues in India have not seen much action and hence, the nation has actually not gained a single hockey gold since then. At the 2012 London Olympics, India's hockey group finished last in a field. Why was a daunting question?
Likewise tennis players adapt to turf and hard courts within a span of a few months and especially between the French Open held in May, Wimbledon held in July and the US Open held in September, so could the expert hockey gamers of India. Turf is an all-natural surface of the game. It tests the ability of players not just their toughness.
India's hockey authorities, fractured by domestic competitions, have slightly worldwide influence. It is India's company market, with an interest in future Olympic gold awards that have to lead the project to restore organic lawns as one of two alternate playing surface areas of selection in future worldwide hockey events. The new Hockey League India might establish the instance in its next version. Sponsorships for industry hockey competitions would comply with.
India has started winning Olympic awards in specific sporting activities though yet none in team sporting activities like hockey. That will change. In India much less in comparison to the major populace has access to the centres, health and nutrition and training athletes from Western nations. In the sports-access terms, the Indian population is equivalent to that of New Zealand's. It is no embarrassment to have won fewer awards than smaller, richer nations. Yet it is an embarrassment if we do not offer hockey, an equal opportunity.
India earned 8 Olympic gold medal awards in the game of hockey. After 1980, hockey leagues in India have not seen much action and hence, the nation has actually not gained a single hockey gold since then. At the 2012 London Olympics, India's hockey group finished last in a field. Why was a daunting question?
Likewise tennis players adapt to turf and hard courts within a span of a few months and especially between the French Open held in May, Wimbledon held in July and the US Open held in September, so could the expert hockey gamers of India. Turf is an all-natural surface of the game. It tests the ability of players not just their toughness.
India's hockey authorities, fractured by domestic competitions, have slightly worldwide influence. It is India's company market, with an interest in future Olympic gold awards that have to lead the project to restore organic lawns as one of two alternate playing surface areas of selection in future worldwide hockey events. The new Hockey League India might establish the instance in its next version. Sponsorships for industry hockey competitions would comply with.
India has started winning Olympic awards in specific sporting activities though yet none in team sporting activities like hockey. That will change. In India much less in comparison to the major populace has access to the centres, health and nutrition and training athletes from Western nations. In the sports-access terms, the Indian population is equivalent to that of New Zealand's. It is no embarrassment to have won fewer awards than smaller, richer nations. Yet it is an embarrassment if we do not offer hockey, an equal opportunity.
