new delhi you must be feeling very happy one more person ie terry walsh has also resigned this was hockey india secretary general narinder batra terse mail to sports authority of india sai director general jiji thomson following chief coach terry walshs resignation on tuesday rather than lament the loss of a credible authority in the dugout the two sports bodies responsible for the sport were taking petulant potshots at each other in reply thomson dashed off a clarification which read today he walsh made a visit to our office and had met sudhir setia executive director teams wherein he expressed his anguish regarding working in a suffocating atmosphere in the federation we are totally unaware of what happened in hockey india in another mail earlier in the day batra had claimed that five of the foreign officials roelant oltmans high performance director neil hawgood womens team coach terry walsh matt tredrea and matt eyles were feeling let down by sais handling of their tds tax deducted at source the genesis of walshs resignation belongs to the recent tradition of the indian sport the defeatist spectre of indian sporting bureaucracy and its ways which walsh too has claimed is not in the best interests of indian hockey or its players relations between the two bodies soured in june when batra threatened to pull out the hockey teams from the commonwealth games and asian games after the ministry had said it wont give additional funds for participation in these two events batra then took on the ministry and sai again after the arjuna award panel ignored the nominations of seven hockey players while choosing five out of 15 awardees from kerala thomsons home state for the honour sai retaliated to batras criticism by not clearing training camps for womens team at bhopal the hi official soon called for sports ministers intervention saying we want fairness amongst your senior officers in ministry and sai for build up of hockey is not hampered by few egoistic individuals hockey india piqued the sports officials further when he started pointing at problems faced at different sai camps by athletes it ranged from defective turfs at certain sai centres to lack of basic facilities at others the standoff reached a boiling point when batra wrote a mail to prime minister narendra modi accusing the dg sai and sports secretary of systematically finish hockey in the country interestingly though not surprisingly both the parties on tuesday blamed the other for walshs resignation i could see this coming quite some time batra was quoted as saying thomson replied through his statement if mr terry walsh has had any complaint about the functioning of sai he would very well come and discussed it with us