Major Dhyan Chand Stadium Gets Facelift Ahead of India-Germany Hockey Series
By Ritayan Basu
Paris Olympic Bronze medalist Indian Hockey players pose for photos at Major Dhyan Chand National Stadium in New Delhi (PTI)
Once it chronicled Mir Ranjan Negi’s epic fall from grace, Dhanraj Pillay’s artistic stick-work and Sandeep Singh’s muscular drag-flicks but in the past decade or so, Major Dhyan Chand National Stadium seemed resigned to the fact that its glory days as epicentre of Indian hockey were a thing of past.