RIP India-Pakistan hockey rivalry, the magical days of Shahid-Sardar, Dhanraj-Shahbaz long over
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When India was playing Pakistan at hockey’s Asian Champions Trophy at Chennai, DD Sports was occupied with the live telecast of the newly launched arm-wrestling league. The Mayor Radhakrishnan Stadium was full but unlike the 1995 SAF Games face-off between the arch-rivals at the same venue, there wasn’t a crowd of close to 5,000 waiting outside the jam-packed house. The game on Wednesday did showcase that wristy subcontinent artistry but it didn’t have the magic of that 1995 game where Dhanraj Pillay would move forward like an angry storm, taking the entire stadium along with him, with Shahbaaz Ahmed flowing in the opposite end like a river in spate.The one-sided contest, that had three penalty corner strikes and a handful of missed field goals, provided the distressing reminder t...