Still I feel India's Hockey team is a good one. They are able to compete when most nations of the world play their sport. What would India's cricket rank be if North & South Americans and all European nations had played cricket? Cricket is a far less competitive sport than hockey. Our hockey players are less lucky than the cricketers though they are better sportsmen.
Re: India and Hockey and Cricket
by S Rambothu on Mar 04, 2010 04:47 PM
That brings us to the case of Sachin. Should he be given the Bharat Ratna? The answer is no. I was also THE mathemetical genius in Nellore by a long long way. No one offered me Bharat Ratna.
Re: Re: India and Hockey and Cricket
by Rajesh Shetty on Mar 04, 2010 04:54 PM
No one is discussing Bharat Ratna here, but hockey. Also point to ponder is that inspite of so much encouragement & investment in cricket, how come only one Sachin, one Dravid, one Laxman in the team from more than a decade ? Which means tht when it comes to performance, they are a cut above the rest.
Re: India and Hockey and Cricket
by Rajesh Shetty on Mar 04, 2010 04:50 PM
100% agree with u. When it comes to skill, we are really good. But unfortunately not many youngsters learn it on Astro-turf, only on grass. And by that time its too late. Also they dont get enough incentives.
Re: India will defeat Germany in Final of Hockey WC by 5-1
by Vivek Kamboj on Mar 04, 2010 04:44 PM
no my dear frnd, final will be won by us against Holland. we will beat germany in semies.
Re: Re: Re: Re: India will defeat Germany in Final of Hockey WC b
by namrat gaonkar on Mar 04, 2010 04:52 PM
that is missing since yesterday!!May be it is hiding in ranjita's c....t
Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: India will defeat Germany in Final of Hockey
by hullabol sachin on Mar 04, 2010 06:03 PM
it was very uncomfortable inside due to your deep penetrations, so he decided to go at asram bapu's ashmram
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by hullabol sachin on Mar 04, 2010 06:01 PM
they are sitting with asaram bapu and having great times...what a joke? this sadhoo culture is another reason for shame of our great nation..
If the level of the play is to be considered they dont deserve to be in semis. Even the coach said that they were not ready for the fast pace game which Australia played.
Re: modern hockey
by manoj rawat on Mar 04, 2010 04:34 PM
Keep the sports, education, defense, research away from politics and political peoples. In all the areas where politicians have poked their nose, everything collapsed due to red tapism, favoritism and non worthy player playing the big game.
The game of hockey - has been made a speed and power game - with astro turf and changes in rules etc. to suit people who are built like bulls . The skills and craft of the game are no more there - which was the strength of Indian and Paksitani teams . Not that it is a complaint - it the order of the day even Tennis , Cricket have all become power games - no need for artistry anymore. With poor encouragement to sports in India and with policial interfearance at every stage ,yes the sports suffer. Add to that the built of the Indian players to rest of the world team . The stmina , power etc are far superior - if at all India scores it is the artistry - often shadowed by the power -raw power. All the same I am sure the Indian team will do better.
Re: SURE
by SarvamKrishnarpanam on Mar 04, 2010 04:42 PM
I like your comment. and i fully subscribe to it. A reason our Tennis champs are not able to win big games.
I read somewhere that India is playing in this world cup only because they are hosts. Otherwise, if they were to enter via competion with other teams, they would have not even qualified to participate in final 12 teams. Is it true?
Re: India there only because it is host...!!
by antipakanticongress on Mar 04, 2010 04:36 PM
Atleast we are better than USA now. If USA will host it then they will get their place too.
Wait and watch india will beat Your loved country today.
No doubt that till the start of the world cup i too feels same, but just see the performance of India in last two matches, we were far ahead of Pakistan and against Australia, we suffer major attacks in only first 10min of both the half’s. If you are talking about speed & stamina in latter half of both the half’s we were similar to Australian players. I think we have over passed our earlier problem of giving the game in last minutes and i am quite confident that from today we do very well in starting time also. My friend just see the class of Prabhjot, Deepak Thakur, Arjun Halappa, Rajpa & Shivendra, They are capable of beating any good team. World cup is all about 7 matches. Playing well in these 7 matches means champion for four years. I fell our player are capable of proving calculation of whole world, the will do well.
Re: chak de india
by Abhishek Jain on Mar 04, 2010 04:26 PM
You may be right but I was seeing the long passes that India team was giving to each other (the passes where opponents are far away and the 3 defenders pass ball to each other to kill time in your own half of the field). Even in this situation where there was no opponent restricting you, the person receiving the ball was not able to stop the ball cleanly. Every time ball was passed, the ball jumped, the person had to make some moves and gather the ball cleanly (like when you are fielding, you stop the ball but not cleanly and have to put your hands here and there in order to control the ball). If international level players are not able to cleanly receive the ball, what can you expect. And this happened multiple times for all players.
Re: Re: chak de india
by Vivek Kamboj on Mar 04, 2010 04:41 PM
the same happened to australian palyers against england, i saw german game in 1st half against koreans. every teams did some mistakes in every game.
Re: Re: chak de india
by Vivek Kamboj on Mar 04, 2010 04:25 PM
not only vikram pillai but all 16 players are as good as one can. i named only few. our all players have a great talent. my salute to them.