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Bangkok again proves lucky

BANGKOK, Dec. 19 (1998)-That golden moment the nation's millions were yearning for dawned on a starry night here. And the man who gave back India its image, identity and the iridescence associated with it in the past was goalkeeper Ashish Ballal. In what could go into the annals of Asian Games hockey history as a contest that can be portrayed as a classic, dramatic and one that should be etched in the mind for years for the components of competition ingrained in it, India came back to level at 1-1, had a purple patch in the second and defended well in the extra-time. And when the tiebreaker came India found the hero — Ashish Ballal, lifting the whole aspect of it into a plane of plain fantasy, crystallising the hopes and aspirations of the hockey aficionados. — S. Thyagarajan

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