Cricket is the most popular sport in India. It is played almost everywhere in the country. The Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI) is the governing body of Indian cricket and conduct all domestic tournaments and select the players for India national cricket team and India women's national cricket team.
Aakash Chopra is a cricket commentator,YouTuber and former cricketer who played for the Indian cricket team from 2003 to late 2004.
Amritsar Govindsingh Kripal Singh was an Indian Test cricketer.
Amritsar Govindsingh Milkha Singh was an Indian Test cricketer. Milkha Singh was a left-handed batsman and an occasional right arm medium pace bowler. He came from a famous cricketing family which also produced A. G. Ram Singh and his more successful brother A. G. Kripal Singh.
Bachendri Pal is an Indian mountaineer. In 1984,she became the first Indian woman to climb the summit of the world's highest mountain,Mount Everest. She was awarded the third highest civilian award in India,Padma Bhushan by the Government of India in 2019.
Lieutenant General Apoorva Kumar Sengupta was an Indian army officer and cricketer who played in one Test in 1959. According to Christopher Martin-Jenkins,he was a "very good allrounder,right hand opening batsman,leg-break and googly bowler and slip field".
Hanumant Singh ( )(29 March 1939 –29 November 2006) was an Indian cricketer. He played in 14 Test matches for the Indian cricket team from 1964 to 1969. He was later an International Cricket Council match referee in 9 Tests and 54 One Day Internationals from 1995 to 2002.
Kumar Shri Indrajitsinhji Madhavsinhji was an Indian cricketer who played in four Test matches from 1964 to 1969 as a wicket-keeper-batsman.
Vikram Raj Vir Singh,commonly known as VRV Singh,is a former Indian cricketer who was a member of the India national cricket team. He is a right-arm fast-medium bowler. He is considered one of the few genuine fast bowlers India has produced over the last decade. After being called into the Indian squad to play Sri Lanka in 2005,he failed a fitness test and was promptly dropped. He finally played his first One Day International against England at Jamshedpur. He debuted in Tests against the West Indies in June 2006. In March 2019,he announced his retirement from cricket. In August 2019,BCCI formed a separate cricket association for Chandigarh and named it Union Territory Cricket Association. VRV Singh was named as the coach of the team.
Santosh Yadav is an Indian mountaineer. She is the first woman in the world to climb Mount Everest twice and the first woman to successfully climb Mount Everest from Kangshung Face. She climbed the peak first in May 1992 and again in May 1993 with an Indo-Nepalese Team.
Major Hari Pal Singh Ahluwalia was an Indian mountaineer,author,social worker and Indian Ordnance Factories Service (IOFS) officer. During his career he made contributions in the fields of adventure,sports,environment,disability and social work. He is one of six Indian men and the twenty first man in the world to climb Mount Everest. On 29 May 1965,12 years to the day from the first ascent of Mount Everest,he made the summit with the fourth and final successful attempt of the 1965 Indian Everest Expedition along with H. C. S. Rawat and Phu Dorjee Sherpa. This was the first time three climbers stood on the summit together.
Captain Mohan Singh Kohli is an internationally renowned Indian mountaineer. An officer in the Indian Navy,who later joined the Indo-Tibetan Border Police,he led the 1965 Indian expedition which put nine men on the summit of Everest,a world record which lasted for 17 years.
Amarjit Kaypee is an Indian former cricketer. He was primarily a right-handed batsman,and he held the record for the most runs scored in the Ranji Trophy,India's premier domestic first-class cricket competition for a number of years before Amol Muzumdar took the record in 2009. However,despite his success,he was never selected for the Indian national team,an unfortunate feat he shares with the man who broke his record.
Amritsar Govindsingh Ram Singh was an Indian first-class cricketer. An allrounder,he bowled slow left-arm orthodox and was a left-handed middle order batsman. His sons A. G. Kripal Singh and A. G. Milkha Singh played Test cricket for India.
Pankaj Singh is an Indian former cricketer. In December 2018,he became the first seam bowler to take 400 wickets in the Ranji Trophy. He retired from all forms of cricket in July 2021.
Syed Mushtaq Ali was an Indian cricketer,a right-handed opening batsman who holds the distinction of scoring the first overseas Test century by an Indian player when he scored 112 against England at Old Trafford in 1936. He batted right-handed but was a slow left arm orthodox spin bowler. He bowled frequently enough in domestic matches to be classified as an all-rounder but only occasionally in test matches. Mushtaq Ali was noted for his graceful batting style and a flair which often cost him his wicket by being over-adventurous too soon in an innings. He received the C. K. Nayudu Lifetime Achievement Award in 1995,the highest honour bestowed by BCCI on a former player.
Premlata Agrawal is the first Indian woman to scale the Seven Summits,the seven highest continental peaks of the world. She was awarded the Padma Shri by the Government of India in 2013 and Tenzing Norgay National Adventure Award in 2017 for her achievements in the field of mountaineering. On 17 May 2011,she became the oldest Indian woman to have scaled the world's tallest peak,Mount Everest (29,032 ft.);at the age of 48 years at that time while Sangeeta Sindhi Bahl hailing from Jammu and Kashmir broke Premlata's record on 19 May 2018 and became the oldest Indian woman to scale Mount Everest doing it at the age of 53.
Mountaineering is quite popular in India,since the entire northern and north-eastern borders are the Himalayas,the highest mountain range in the world. The apex body in India is the Indian Mountaineering Foundation,which is affiliated to the International Federation of Sport Climbing.
The role of The Doon School in Indian mountaineering describes the formative links between The Doon School,an all-boys boarding school in Dehradun,India and early post-Independence Indian mountaineering. From the 1940s onwards,Doon's masters and students like A.E. Foot,R.L. Holdsworth,J.A.K. Martyn,Gurdial Singh,Jack Gibson,Aamir Ali,Hari Dang,Nandu Jayal,were among the first to go on major Himalayan expeditions in a newly independent nation. These early expeditions contributed towards laying the foundation of mountaineering in an independent India.
Chandigarh cricket team represents the Union Territory of Chandigarh in Indian domestic cricket competitions. In August 2019,the Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI) named them as the last of ten expansion teams,the other nine having been introduced in 2018–19. Chandigarh made their senior debut in the 2019–20 season,playing in the Ranji Trophy,the Vijay Hazare Trophy,and the Syed Mushtaq Ali Trophy. Former Indian cricketer,V. R. V. Singh,was named as the first coach of the team.
