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India must regain lost glory in football, other sports: Rathore
Kolkata, Oct 28 (IANS) Reminiscing India’s gold medal triumph in football at the 1962 Asian Games, Union Sports Minister Rajyavardhan Singh Rathore said on Saturday that the country should work towards lifting football and other sports back to their previous glory.
“A lot of spectators today might not know that we won gold medal in football in Asian Games and the captain of that team was from Bengal. We were once at the 14th position at the Olympics. So These are important moments for us.
“We need to lift the Indian football back up and develop in a lot of other sports,” Rathore said here ahead of the the FIFA U-17 World Cup final, with India’s 1962 football team captain Chuni Goswami by his side.
Rathore, who himself claimed a silver medal in the double trap shooting event at 2004 Olympic Games, said he was happy with the infrastructure for the U-17 World Cup here and claimed that India needs more players to come up to avail the facilities.
“The infrastructure here is good. I want the facilities to be regularly used by the players. If the infrastructure remain unused then what is the point of maintaining it? Therefore we need more players to come up,” he said.
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The left-handed batsman from Haryana is garnering praise from all quarters for the way he’s finishing games regularly in the most exciting IPL season.
Gavaskar reckons Tewatia’s whirlwind knock in Sharjah (in IPL 2020) where he smashed West Indies pacer Sheldon Cottrell for five sixes in an over, gave him the confidence that he belongs to the big stage.
Speaking on Cricket Live on Star Sports, Gavaskar said, “That assault on Sheldon Cottrell in Sharjah gave him the belief to do the impossible and the confidence that he belongs here. We saw the impossible (he did with the bat) the other day as well. There’s no twitching or touching the pads (which shows a batter’s nervousness) when he bats in the death overs. He just waits for the ball to be delivered and plays his shots. He’s got all the shots in the book, but most importantly his temperament to stay cool in a crisis is brilliant.”
Gavaskar has also nicknamed the 28-year-old cricketer the ‘ice-man’ and lauded Tewatia’s ability to remain unruffled during the tense moments.
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