Hello friends in this article we will find out the reason why Indian hockey team popularity baking down as comparison to British Raj
History of hockey
Hockey is the older than Olympics like hockey there is similar game played in Iran Egypt Ethiopia in that game we have a small disk called pluck with the stick we use to hit them
As same as a ice hockey but the modern hockey game developed and British raj the 18 century British raj make the hockey popular than cricket at that time hockey clubs are formed in the Bombay Calicut at Madras and several tournament organised by the British raj Brighton ton cup.
At that time Britisher like hockey more than cricket after a time the several Indian became a good player of a hockey and several States we found the fantastic player Like Dhyan Chand and brother of him Roop Singh
They both start playing hockey in the Jhansi after the establishment of Indian Hockey Association and Indian hockey team play Olympics to at the starting there was the only men's hockey team after 1928 India won a 6 consecutive gold medals and 124 consecutive matches along with the Dhyanchand Jaipal Singh from the Ranchi complete his study in Oxford after becoming the captain of Indian hockey team he also became the member of a draft community who make the constitution of India
In 1948 after the Independence the olympics games held Balbir Singh he score the two goals against the British in the final of Olympics the game was held between Britishers 🆚 India
After this moment hockey became the popular in India Adolf Hitler keep the title to Dhyanchand Wizard of the hockey he impressed with him very much and offer the post of head of Army German but they decline the offer and said India is not for the sell
Decline of hockey
In 1960 the change in the playing of a game
Audience don't like the pillar used to change the ball very skillfully at that time from now was they used to change the players
The second reason is 1975 International hockey Foundation said that from nowadays we should play hockey on Astro grass or artificial grass in the natural grass piliya can easily transfer the ball from one person to the another they can show the skills after the artificial grass the player used to exert force too much as comparison to grass In grass less friction is required
Rise of cricket
Rise of cricket in 1970s and 1980 the coming of years for cricket at the time is at the peak India travel to England for the test matches. Indian never won any match against the British after the winning this match and after few years 1983 the world cup won by the India make a unique fan base of cricket in India more than 8 cr people listen commentary on radio that time downfall on the hockey game
Odisha Government contribution towards hockey
Odisha spend for the sponsorship on the t-shirt of Indian hockey team.
Making the several stadiums and start arranging multiples tournament game India also start world largest stadium construction called him Birsa Munda for 2003 the international hockey competition the Stadium will be ready
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