Home Minister Amit Shah’s recent announcement that a brand new hockey stadium named after Dhyan Chand is being constructed at the Sardar Patel Sports Enclave in Ahmedabad came as a pleasant surprise to Ashok Kumar, son of the legendary hockey wizard.

“We did not know that this stadium was being planned and when Amit Shah said that it would be named after Babuji [Dhyan Chand], I was overjoyed,” Ashok Kumar, 70, also a former India hockey captain, told mid-day.com from his Delhi residence on Friday.