A member of the Indian women's hockey team which claimed a historic fourth-place finish at the Tokyo Olympics, forward Navneet Kaur says it was the relentless efforts of her father which helped her to play for the national team. "I always had a great interest in sports since my childhood. My father wanted me to be a cricketer, but there was no cricket in my hometown - Shahabad," Navneet said in 'Hockey Te Charcha' -- a podcast series initiated by Hockey India. "There was a school in front of my house where hockey was played and that's where I started playing the sport.