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Cricket News Desk. August 15, 1947 was the day of happiness when India became free by breaking the shackles of slavery. One day and one today. During this period, India has written a unique saga of progress. In this period of 79 years, we have created new criteria of development, have established new paradigms of success. Pick up any sector and see, India has collected its coin in it. The sports world is also not untouched by this. Statistics testify that we are one of the largest contributors in the popularity of sports and businesses in the world. Even more pleasant is that our participation and claim in sports have increased. Along with cricket, today India is also famous for boxing, wrestling, badminton, archery and shooting. Apart from this, Indian athletes are leaving their mark with full power in other sports. This journey was not easy. It has been full of difficulties and conflicts. You must have known what was the economic condition of the country at the time of independence, so sports were not far from the priorities of the government. The attitude of the society was also limited to ‘playing and burning’. In such a situation, hockey was the only genre of the game in which the world knew the name of India.

Because before independence, the Indian hockey team won three gold medals in the Olympics. Even after independence, India’s pride remained in hockey and four Olympic gold medals came to us. However, after the 1964 Tokyo Olympics, the Indian team could only register ‘Gold’ in the 1980 Moscow Olympics. On the one hand, the golden age of India in hockey was mourning and at the same time, the sun of India began to spread its glow. , The cricket world was red. In 1970-71, Ajit Wadekar’s team gave the West Indies a historic defeat in his house, but in 1983 the Indian team reversed cricket. Kapil Dev’s team ended the reign of the West Indies and as a result of this amazing achievement, cricket reached every corner of India. Top players like Sachin, Dravid, Ganguly, Kumble, Sehwag, Yuvraj, Dhoni and Kohli came together and became Indian cricket. The superpower. Two World Cups and two Champions Trophy came under India’s bag, establishing India’s reputation in cricket. In recent years, India has won some very memorable victories among military countries.

With the arrival of IPL, the enthusiasm and spread of cricket in the country and the world has increased manifold. Since the matter has started with hockey, it will have to be underlined that India’s performance in this too has become much better. The Indian team ended the 41 -year drought by winning a bronze medal at the Tokyo Olympics. In hockey, the women’s team has also shown hope, which seems that India is moving towards achieving its old pride in hockey. Other sports are also getting such good signs. Indian athletes have achieved great success in wrestling. At the 1952 Helsinki Olympics, KD Jadhav won the bronze medal and lit a long time to realize, but the process began with Sushil Kumar’s bronze at the Beijing Olympics and then Yogeshwar Dutt in London, Sakshi Malik winning the silver medal. Ravi Dahiya and Bajrang Punia remained. Since Beijing, there has been no such Olympics where India has not won a medal in wrestling. The reality today is that Indian wrestlers are strong contenders for medal in every tournament. Boxing ring has also brought good news in Beijing Olympics.

Vijender Singh gave India a bronze medal with his strong punch. At the 2012 Olympic Games, Mary Kom captured the bronze medal and in 2020, Lovelina Borgohen also reiterated the feat. Apart from this, Nikhat Zarine created history by winning the gold medal in the World Boxing Championship last year. Today, many promising boxers like Amit Panghal, Deepak Kumar, Mohammad Hussamuddin and Nishant Dev are keen to enter the international field. Badminton is a sport in which India has made a strong presence to challenge China’s dominance. Players like Sindhu, Saina, Srikanth, Lakshya Sen and Satvik-Chirag added new chapters to the success story written by Prakash Padukone and Gopichand from the All England Championship. From the Olympics to the Thomas Cup, World Championship and Commonwealth Games, Indian athletes have continued their winning campaign. Indian shooters have also shown their wonders in this century. Rajwardhan Rathore started the campaign by winning a silver medal at the 2004 Athens Olympics.

Four years later, ‘Bindra’ created ‘Abhinav’ history by targeting the Olympic gold. Vijay Kumar and Gagan Narang also managed to win medals at the London Olympics. Along with shooting, India has also opened the doors of success in archery. Deepika Kumari and Atanu Das have brightened India in this game with their extraordinary performances. Recently, India’s women’s compound team won the World Archery Championship for the first time. A new plant of archers arouses the belief that the Olympic medal in the archery is not far away. Today India is also known as a superpower in athletics. The most credit goes to ‘Golden Boy’ Neeraj Chopra. After winning gold in Tokyo, he is continuously waving his glory in the World Championship and Diamond League.

Apart from them, players like DP Manu, Annu Rani and Jena Kishore are ready to get their iron in spear throw. Meerabai Chanu’s hopes of winning Olympic silver in weightlifting have increased once again. It is estimated that young athletes like Jeremy Lalrinunga, Achinta Shuli will have India’s future and they will compete in the upcoming Olympic and Asian Games.