January 27, 2022, India mourns the death of hockey legend, Charanjit Singh, who captained the national team at the gold-winning Tokyo Olympics in 1964. Singh was a native of Una, Himachal Pradesh, where he took his last breaths before losing battle to cardiac arrest that followed prolonged age-related illness. He was to turn a year…
Smelling a difficult competition at the Asian Games this year, Manpreet Singh, Indian men’s hockey team captain, says the FIH Pro League will be an ideal platform to try out new associations for the big-ticket contest in Hangzhou. To your recollection, Manpreet had led the men’s team to the Olympic Bronze after a desperate wait…
India has a remarkable history in hockey, being unbeatable was something it maintained since 1928. But the tale of India against Pakistan in Melbourne, 1956, was something worth remembering. The national men’s team remained undefeated in 1928, 1932, 1936. When the world was recovering from the devastation of World War II in 1948, team India…