MUMBAI: The names of all the highest sports activities awardees who’ve labored for the Western Railways have been put up in a Western Railway Board on the Churchgate station. This listing contains Kishan Lal (captain of India’s 1948 Olympics hockey gold medal-winning workforce), former India males’s cricket captain Nari Contractor, ex-India ladies’s cricket captain Diana Edulji , former India ladies’s hockey workforce captains Eliza Nelson & Selma D’Silva (all Padma Shri Awardees), former India basketball participant Ram Kumar (Dhyan Chand Awardee), Subhash B Agarwal (snooker) and Indian cricket captain Rohit Sharma & Shardul Thakur’s childhood coach Dinesh Lad (each Dronacharya awardees).
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Contractor, who acquired the Padma Shri awardee in 1962), is revered for his combating qualities and management -his Take a look at profession was cruelly reduce quick when he was struck on the cranium by a brief supply from West Indies’ fiery pacer Charlie Griffith within the Indian vacationers’ colony recreation towards Barbados in 1962. Edulji, who was awarded the Padma Shri in 2002, took 109 wickets in 54 internationals (20 Girls’s Assessments and 34 WODIs). The 69-year-old was a member of the Supreme Court docket-appointed Committee of Directors (CoA) working the BCCI in 2018-19 and took loads of steps to advertise ladies’s cricket and enhance services for the Indian ladies’s cricket workforce throughout her stint.
“It certainly is a superb honour for me and my fellow railway sportspersons to have a honour board put on the Churchgate station. Thanks, Western Railway!” Edulji advised TOI.
A Dronacharya Award winner in 2022, Lad is known for shaping the careers of worldwide stars corresponding to Rohit Sharma and Shardul Thakur and plenty of Mumbai cricketers. Lad was the pinnacle coach of the Mumbai Beneath-16 workforce, and likewise the Swami Vivekananda Worldwide Faculty (Mumbai), for which Rohit performed within the Harris Protect.
“It is a proud feeling for me. I joined Western Railway as class IV worker in 1982 below the sports activities quota, and at this time my title is etched on the Churchgate station together with all these legends! It is an enormous achievement for me. I’m simply the second Dronacharya awardee from Western Railways’ historical past (after Subhash B Agarwal gained this award for billiards & snooker in 2010),” Lad advised TOI.
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