The one Indian coach who won something is Maharj Krishan Kaushik. He won the Asian Games gold for India in 1998 at Bangkok after three decades, but was sacked immediately after the success. That was not Batra’s doing, it was done by the equally autocratic Super Cop Kunwar Pal Singh Gill, whose first signal of authority was to get rid of Zafar Iqbal for not winning the gold at the Hiroshima Asian Games in 1994. From the Zafar-trained team went to Sydney for the World Cup where they finished fifth, their best for decades.