Indian Hockey at its Resurrection

Hockey is one of the oldest sports in history, and it eventually gained popularity in almost every country. It is played in two forms, namely ice hockey and field hockey; basically differentiated by the playing surface. The game is quite popular in countries like India, Canada, USA, Holland etc. It specially became popular in India and even became its national sport. The sport was initially introduced here by the British army. The Indian youth quickly picked up on the skills and literally ruled the world of hockey till 1984. But after that the Indian hockey team lost its reputation. In 2008 Olympics India could not even qualify; this is considered to be the black day in the history of Indian hockey.

But as it is said, no state is permanent; as the glorious days didn’t last forever neither will the darker ones do. The state of hockey is improving now; it started with the London Olympics 2012, when India finally made it back through the qualifying rounds.  However we did not make it up any farther than that and ended up last on the scoreboard. But soon after this they started afresh by bringing back bronze at Sultan Azlan Shah Cup. Following this the brightest hockey player name that appeared up in India was of Sardara Singh. He is the youngest captain, who has ever headed the Indian hockey team, and he has many more credits on his account that makes him a part of the list of distinguished hockey players’ names.

 Apart from the new captain and all vigorous young hockey team, that is training hard to make a comeback, another event that reconstructed the fate of Indian hockey is the Hockey League India. It is a tournament formulated on the theme of IPL cricket tournament; mainly concentrating on bringing in more money and glamour to the game. One season of Hockey league India has successfully taken place already; and people are looking forward to the forthcoming season-2.

Hence, these new developments in the Indian hockey have already led up my hopes, and I believe that in the near future we will be enjoying a lot more of this incredible game.