Until the 1980s hockey packed out stadiums across India, but it has been eclipsed by cricket
SANSARPUR (INDIA) – Kids with sticks dribble balls, weave and bob in Sansarpur, the cradle of Indian field hockey. But the village’s glory days, as well as those of the national team, are a thing of the past.
India crashed out of the World Cup at the group stage on Sunday, the latest in a series of humiliations for a country that won six consecutive Olympic golds between 1928 and 1956.
Watching the children train and ruing the sport’s sad decline is medal-winner Balbir Singh Kular, one of no fewer than 14 Olympic hockey players produced by Sansarpur in northern India.
“We failed because we didn’t change ourselves and we thought we have been…
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