Written By: Sajal Patra | Updated: Aug 16, 2021, 12:26 PM
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At a time when India were largely dependent on spinners, Kapil Dev brought an air of freshness to the Indian side and was possibly India’s first-ever fast bowling all-rounder to have played the game.
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Having won the bronze in the 2008 Beijing Olympics, Sushil Kumar followed it up with a silver in the 2012 London Olympics and will go down as one of the greatest Indian wrestlers to have ever set foot on the mat.
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Widely regarded as one of the greatest opening batsmen of all time, Sunil Gavaskar was the original little master of India.
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Also known as Chuni Goswami, he is arguably the greatest Indian sportsperson, just going by the mere fact that he was a great footballer and an equally good cricketer.
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For a few, he is the greatest ever to have played the game and for some, he is an emotion that cannot be put in words.
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Regarded as one of the greatest doubles player in the history of tennis, Leander Paes holds the most doubles win in the Davis Cup. Paes also holds a rare feat of achieving doubles/mixed doubles double at the 1999 Wimbledon Championship.
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If PT Usha is the Queen of Indian track and field event, then PV Sindhu is the Queen of Indian badminton and there is every possibility of her going down as one of the greatest Indian Olympians, having already won silver in the Rio Olympics and bronze in the Tokyo Olympics.
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The Queen of Indian track and field, PT Usha made an entire generation of young women believe that an Olympic medal isn’t just a distant dream but a reality.
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There isn’t a name bigger than Mangte Chungneijang Mary Kom in Indian amateur boxing, having won the World Amateur Boxing Championship six times and remains the only female boxer to have won a medal in each of the seven World Championships.
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Also known as The Flying Sikh, Milkha Singh brought a sense of pride among a lot of Indians and came agonisingly close to winning a bronze medal in the 400m final at the Rome Olympics.
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Born in Mhow, a cantonment in the Indore district in Madhya Pradesh, Kishan Lal was possibly the greatest inside forward/right-winger of India. Lal captained the India hockey men’s team in the 1948 Olympics that went on to win the first gold medal of independent India.
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