Biography of Kunwar Digvijay Singh.

        

        KUNWAR DIGVIJAY SINGH

                    field hockey player

Kunwar Digvijay Singh was an Indian hockey player. He was prominently known as 'Babu'. He was brought into the world in Barabanki, Uttar Pradesh. 'Me and Hockey' 

He was a hockey player from India. He was popularly known as 'Babu'. He was born in Barabanki, Uttar Pradesh. 

Date and season of birth: 2 February 1922, Barabanki 

Spot and date of death: 27 March 1978, Lucknow 

Schooling: Government Inter College 

Partners: Balbir Singh, Leslie Claudius, Krishan Lal, Udham Singh, More

Early life 

KD Singh made his introduction to dynamic hockey with competitions played at Deva Mela and addressed his school hockey group in the 1937 Inter College Tournament. At the youthful age of 15, he played for LYA Club, Lucknow in the Trades Cup in Delhi. In similar Traders Cup, the young group of Lucknow collaborated with an esteemed Delhi group, for which Olympic player Mohammad Hussain additionally played. K. D. Singh was not informed that Hussain, an Olympian, was additionally playing in an adversary group so he could play his normal game. The hockey entertainer squeezed and evaded Hussain all through the match. Hussain was likewise astounded by the sportsmanship of this little fellow. After the match, Hussain said that this kid would one day become perhaps the best player of field hockey. He played for the Uttar Pradesh hockey group in every one of the public competitions continuously from 1939 to 1959.

Numerous sorts of conventional and public games are played in India. A large portion of individuals are keen on cricket. In the games, in some cases such a circumstance comes that the country's assumptions are high on the players. In such a circumstance, commonly players disillusion the country, then, at that point there are numerous such players whose adventures make the nation glad. Today we will inform you concerning one such hockey player who dominated the global game regardless of the crumbling of the promising players of India's hockey group after the nation's freedom and after the parcel of the country a couple of months after the fact, and the entire nation was glad for him. occur. Today is the birthday of Kunwar Digvijay Singh, so we should think about K D Babu (Kunwar Digvijay Singh), the bad habit chief of the public games hockey group of free India, on whom the entire nation was once pleased. 

'Babu' was brought into the world in Barabanki, Uttar Pradesh. KD Singh Babu's hockey profession began in the year 1938. When in a competition held in Delhi, he diddge Olympian Mohammad Hussain and hit an objective. 

After World War II, Babu went to Sri Lanka as an individual from the Indian hockey group and afterward to East Africa. Where he scored an aggregate of 200 objectives under the authority of hockey performer Colonel Dhyan Chand. In which greatest 70 objectives were from Babu. In 1948, he was made the bad the point when the honor of the nation is in question  habit chief of the Indian hockey group that took an interest in the London Olympics.

At the point when the honor of the nation is in question 

As indicated by Vishwa Vijay Singh, child of KD Singh Babu, "After the segment of the country, every one of the white individuals who played with the Indian group had gone to their own country. Thirty to 35 percent of India's best players had gone to Pakistan. The 1948 Olympics involved amazing privilege for the Indian sportspersons. It was hard to have the Olympics in London following freedom and to crush Britain in the last in the capital there after autonomy from British standard. 

Notwithstanding this, he got a gold award for the country. Babu was made the chief of the Indian hockey group in the 1952 Helsinki Olympics. Under his initiative, India won the Olympic gold award for the fifth time straight by crushing Holland 6-1 in the last. Babu is viewed as the best hockey player of India after Dhyan Chand. Be that as it may, there was a distinction of ground and sky in the round of both.

The Indian group of 1952 was a solid group. At the point when these individuals came to there, the climate there was freezing. At the point when these individuals returned subsequent to winning the gold decoration, there was discussion in the entire world that a player like Babu has nor been seen nor heard in this world. The global press contrasted him with Australian batsman Bradman and considered him the Bradman of hockey. 

America was persuaded of Babu's captaincy 

As per Vishwavijay, "Taking into account his game and captaincy in Helsinki, the Hemsford Foundation of Los Angeles gave him the Hems Trophy. It's anything but a sort of Nobel Prize in sports. A 15 kg silver safeguard was given to the best player from each mainland. Which KD Babu additionally got.

As a mentor 

He later filled in as the mentor of the Indian hockey group at the 1972 Munich Olympics. KD Singh Babu was an individual from a few associations, including All India Sports Council, Railway Board, Rifle Association of India and Wildlife Protection Committee of Uttar Pradesh.

After Colonel Dhyanchand, the Indian group had a superior player: Babu 

As per Olympian Raghbir Singh Bhola, who played hockey with Babu, "Both had an alternate game. Dhyan Chand didn't keep the ball with him. The nature of KD Singh was that he used to play with the ball. He used to evade the major part in front by hitting D. I have seen eight players with them stand one behind the other, they avoid everybody and keep the ball with them. That was his significance." 

was crushed because of political pressing factor 

His child Vishwa Vijay Singh says, "The 1972 Olympic group remained with our dad for three to four months here in Lucknow. He was likely the main mentor, so alongside showing hockey in the field, he used to show hockey in the study hall too. He used to show various kinds of moves. He had given a generally excellent group to India. However, the players he needed to keep in the Munich Olympic group, because of political pressing factor, he didn't permit it. 

He further clarifies, "The individual whom he needed to make the commander of the group, he was excluded from the group. He was Balbir Singh Jr of Railways. Due to that we lost the elimination rounds of the 1972 Olympics. Don't know from where, they used to look and bring helpless kids and keep them in sports inns and instruct hockey. Syed Ali, who played for India, was brought to him from Nainital where he had a tailor shop. He had seen them playing in a nearby competition there. Carrying him to Lucknow, preparing him and getting him chosen in the 1976 Montreal Olympic group used to be nothing to joke about." 

Eventually, these incredible players bid farewell to the world on 27 March 1978. Yet, we actually recall their endeavors.

Honors and Memorials

• In 1958 he was granted the esteemed Padma Shri grant by the Government of India. 

• Arenas in Barabanki and Lucknow are named after him. Arenas in Lucknow and Barabanki, both known as "K.D. Singh Babu Stadium" 

• A road in Barabanki interfacing Chhaiya Chauraha and Lucknow-Faizabad Road is named after him.

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