WRI Special Adjudicators Sanjay Narvekar and Sushma Narvekar selected the hockey stick sand sculpture for the World Records India.
The WRI has accorded the hockey stick as the largest hockey stick sculpted in sand ever in the world so far.
Notably, Pattnaik had sculpted the hockey stick on the Mahanadi riverbed on the day of the inauguration of FIH Odisha Hockey Men’s World Cup at Barabati Stadium recently. He had installed 5,000 hockey balls in the body of the stick.