Darryl no more On August 14, Darryl Crasto, TOI's senior sports journalist passed away after battling pneumonia for two weeks. Hockey was Darryl's favourite sport: a game he played in school and college, and wrote on with passion. He had a legacy to live up to: two of his uncles, John and Joe Crasto. >From his early days at the Free Press Journal to the Indian Post, the Observer Group, the Independent and finally TOI, he wrote endless pieces on the state of hockey in the country, unafraid to take a stand or call a spade a spade. No official or mandarin was spared. But he was extremely popular with the players and this was evident as a number of them, some of whom would never even have seen Darryl, lined up to donate blood over the past 12 days. Hockey was his forte, but Darryl was equally at ease with billiards and snooker, tennis, football and cricket. Forty seven is simply too young to die. But Darryl lived and enjoyed every moment of his almost three-decade-old journalistic career to the fullest. He will be remembered by his friends, colleagues and sportsmen as a generous and kind person, who played by the rules, and was always ready to lend a hand. In short a jolly good fellow. May his soul rest in peace.
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