It is a rare story of an Indian father and his Kenya-born son -- both taking to hockey, but across the continental divide.

Meet Canada's star forward in the ongoing Hockey World Cup Ranjeev Deol, whose late father Surjeet Singh Deol was a Kenyan hockey Olympian.

Surjeet shifted base from Ludhiana in Punjab to far-off Kenya and then went on to represent the African nation in three Olympics (1956, 1960 and 1964).