It was a vicious off-cutter from Balwinder Singh Sandhu. Gordon Greenidge shouldered arms, and the ball turned and knocked off the stump. It marked the beginning of a disaster for West Indies and a significant point for India’s victory in the World Cup final, 1983.
In 1932 Los Angeles Olympics there were three teams, India, Japan and the USA, in men’s hockey. India won the gold by defeating Japan and USA respectively by 11–1 and 24–1. When it came to raising funds for sending the team to Los Angeles, a journalist representing the Indian Hockey Federation approached Mahatma Gandhi to…
In the first ever test match played between Australia and England, Australia won by 45 runs. In the Centenary Test held after 100 years in 1977, Australia defeated England by 45 runs.
Bob Marley, the famous Jamaican singer, Alvin Kallicharran, the stylish left-handed batsman of West Indies and Sunil Gavaskar, the little Master of India named their sons Rohan in appreciation of the famous West Indies batsman Rohan Kanhai, who played 79 test matches and scored 6,227 at an average of 47.53. He has also played 7…
The countries which won the Olympic Football Gold during the period 1952–1980 were all communist countries. 1952 – Hungary 1956 – Soviet Union 1960 – Yugoslavia 1964 – Hungary 1968 – Hungary 1972 – Poland 1976 – German Democratic Republic 1980 – Czechoslovakia
In the 78th minute of the Federation Cup final 2004, Cristiano Sebastião de Lima Júnior collided with Mohun Bagan’s goalkeeper Subrata Paul. All this happened in the process of scoring a goal while chasing a pass inside the penalty box. It was incidentally the second goal in the 2–0 victory of Dempo Sports against Mohun…
