Tag: Hockey
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Fall from grace
From Rob Steen’s article on the loss of England to New Zealand last week. Timidity. Mental cowardice. Unconfidence. Complacency. Ineffable bloody uselessness. And much, much worse. I think I can use the same terms to describe India’s loss to England in hockey and hence missing the Olympics for first time in eighty years. I still…
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India in England
The Good: India in tests. Tendulkar, in sublime touch and his responses to the decisions against him, from the disbelief to the smile, priceless. Kevin Pietersen in the first test. Vaughn in the second. Kumble in the third, with the bat. Mascarenhas in the sixth ODI. Utthappa in the sixth ODI, even though many shots…