Hindumommy’s post yesterday made me think on how many times less than Tendulkar a hockey player earns. We all have a special place in our hearts for cricket. But not giving the others their due and news such as these disturb me. I just noticed, even at Mutiny, we had a separate tag for cricket and only one to cover all the other sports. National Game, anyone?
Sandeep Singh, member of the Indian Hockey team for the World Cup next month, was shot accidentally by a Railway Protection Force jawan while traveling on Delhi-Kalka Shatabdi.
Now, how many cricketers can you list down who travel by train, who have met with an accident of any kind. It’s news today. Everyone will forget about it by tomorrow. Unlike a particularly famous elbow which hogged headlines for months at end.
On second thoughts, things are improving. About ten years back, my cousin traveling in an unreserved compartment from Delhi-Ambala managed to get me autographs of Pargat Singh and Mukesh Kumar, who were his co-passengers on the opposite berths. Sandeep at least was travelling in a Shatabdi.
August 22, 2006 at 5:17 pm
Since Hockey is the national game people forget that. Cricket is a english (british) game. so ppl caught up with it.
August 22, 2006 at 5:27 pm
@krishna: knowing its our national game might not just be the thing we frgot..thr was a decade of hockey playing when India never lost a match a scored a record number of goals..to some extent it has been the loss of touch too..ocourse you might debate that its very cause have been the loss of its popularity but then its a vicious circle..
PHL (premier hockey league) …whens it happening again??? is it hapenning again???
why cant the media make it hip ..why cant phl be like english premiere league..that so many indians follow without a single indian player playing in..
August 22, 2006 at 5:31 pm
If my book is a hit AND I make a million $$$ from my banana vodkha idea, I’m starting FC Kerala.
August 22, 2006 at 6:31 pm
Very unfortunate.
I think the main reason behind the demise is the hockey federations unprofessional functioning and the lack of support from the government.
As the game has now progressed from flair to power and strategy, India as a team has been left behind.
August 22, 2006 at 8:09 pm
@Krishna:
Hockey too is an English sport like all the other popular games in the world. Tennis, Football and the like.
About cricket being popular, I guess I’ll write a book review soon.
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