Updated On: 18 November, 2018 12:00 AM IST | | Ashwin Ferro
Hockey stalwart Ashok Kumar recalls how teammates Shivaji Pawar and Mohinder Singh showered him with love moments after he scored the all-important 1975 World Cup-winning goal in the final against Pakistan at Malaysia

Indias 1975 World Cup-winning hockey team. (Standing left to right) Aslam Sher Khan, Surjit Singh, BP Govinda, Harcharan Singh, Ajit Pal Singh, Onkar, PE Kalliah, Ashok Kumar, VJ Phillips. (Sitting left to right) Mohinder Singh, Michael Kindo, Varinder
If any international match-winning goal is a huge high, imagine what a World Cup-winning goal must feel like. Ashok Kumar, son of hockey legend Dhyan Chand, experienced this "super high" on March 15, 1975 at the Merdeka Football Stadium in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia as India won its first and only hockey World Cup, after rallying to beat Pakistan 2-1 in the final. "It-s a super high that cannot be explained," Ashok Kumar, 68, told mid-day from his home in Bhopal.

A screengrab of India-s Mohinder Singh right kissing teammate Ashok Kumar moments after the latter scored the match-winner against Pakistan during the 1975 World Cup hockey final in Malaysia