Chandrakant Gulabrao "Chandu" Borde,is an Indian former cricketer who played for India between 1958 and 1970. Following his retirement,he became a cricket administrator and twice served as India's chairman of selectors.
Aakash Chopra is a cricket commentator,YouTuber and former cricketer who played for the Indian cricket team from 2003 to late 2004.
Vijay Samuel Hazare was an Indian cricketer. He captained India in 14 matches between 1951 and 1953. In India's 25th Test match,nearly 20 years after India achieved Test status,he led India to its first Test cricket win in 1951–52 against England at Madras,winning by an innings and eight runs in a match that began on the day that King George VI died. He received the C. K. Nayudu Lifetime Achievement Award in 1996,the highest honour bestowed by BCCI on a former player.
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.
Motganhalli Laxminarsu Jaisimha was an Indian Test cricketer.
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.
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. However,he was only selrctrd for seven international matches,two Tests and five One Day Internationals. 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 ODI 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.
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 Indian Navy officer and mountaineer,who led the 1965 Indian Everest Expedition,which saw nine men reach the summit of Everest,a world record for 17 years.
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.
Narendra Deepchand Hirwani is a leg spin bowler who played for India. He is mainly remembered for his success on his Test debut. He was a part of the Indian squad which won the 1988 Asia Cup.
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.
Romilly Lisle Holdsworth,commonly known as R. L. Holdsworth,was an English scholar,academic,educationalist,cricketer and a distinguished Himalayan mountaineer. He was a member of the first expedition to Kamet in 1931,which included other stalwarts such as Eric Shipton and Frank Smythe. Holdsworth,along with Shipton and Smythe,are credited with the discovery of the Valley of Flowers,now a UNESCO World Heritage Site,during their return from Kamet.
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.
Anmolpreet Singh is an Indian professional cricketer who plays for Punjab. He made his IPL debut on 19 September 2021 against Chennai Super Kings. He was bought by Sunrisers Hyderabad in the 2023 Indian Premier League auction for Rs.20 Lakh.
Indian Mountaineering Foundation is an apex national body which organize and support,mountaineering and rock climbing expeditions at high altitudes in the Himalayas. The organization also promotes and encourages schemes for related adventure activities and environment-protection work in the Indian Himalayas. IMF has organized many expeditions to the high peaks in the Himalayas including Mount Everest.
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. Mountaineer and chronicler Harish Kapadia wrote in his book Across Peaks &Passes in Garhwal Himalaya:"To my mind,it was when Gurdial Singh [then a Doon School master] climbed Trisul in 1951 that was the beginning of the age of mountaineering for Indians."
