london 1948 helsinki 1952 and melbourne 1956 and won the gold medal in all the three editions having scored 22 goals across the three gamesbalbir singh sr scored five goals in indias 61 victory over the netherlands in the gold medal match of the 1952 helsinki games it is a world record for most goals scored by an individual in the mens hockey final of the olympics and still remains unbeatenin 1957 balbir singh sr became the first athlete to be conferred the prestigious civilian honour padma shri and was a part of the indian team that won the silver medal in the 1958 asian games in tokyothe hockey legend breathed his last at a hospital in mohali on may 25 after battling multiple health issues he was 96 and had been fighting a pulmonary illness over the last two years with multiple admissions to the intensive care unitrajinder goel 1942 2020how would you feel when you are one of the best leftarm spinners in the country but still not picked to play at the international level heartbroken right well thats not how rajinder goel dealt with it he simply took it in his stride and kept bowling at a very high level in indian domestic cricketrajinder goel was born at a time when there was no dearth of fantastic spin bowlers in the country and only one leftarm spinner was selected to play for india and that was the greatest of them all bishan singh bedibut rajinder goel never let this rejection come in the way of him taking wickets at the domestic level and he picked them in heaps such big heaps that he went on to become the recordholder for most wickets in the ranji trophy 637 a record that still standsthe closest that rajinder goel came to play for india was during the 197475 series against the west indies when he was named in the indian squad for a test match in bangalore but the leftarm spinner was not included in the indian playing xirajinder goel played 26 seasons of first class cricket with the grace of accepting his destiny of not playing for india without ever being bitter about itrajinder goel breathed his last in rohtak on june 21 due to agerelated illness he was 77chetan chauhan 1947 2020from ashok mankad to krishnamachari srikkanth sunil gavaskar had many great opening partners in his glorious test career but it was chetan chauhan who had the distinction of being gavaskars longest opening partner in test cricketand even though chauhan didnt hit a test hundred he was gavaskars longest opening partner largely due to his guts and grit and the partnership wasnt just the longest it was also indias most successful opening partnership from 1973 to 1981 with more than 3000 runs including 10 century standsduring his 12yearlong cricket career from 1969 to 1981 chauhan played 40 tests scoring 2084 runs with 16 halfcenturies with 97 as his best scorehonoured with