In the 1950s and 60s, excellent strikers like Sheoo Mewalal, Neville D'Souza, Chuni Goswami and Tulsidas Balaram played for the national team. Mewalal was known for his fitness and bicycle kicks, who played as striker in the 1948 Olympics, 1952 Olympics and 1951 Asian games where he became highest goal scorer with four goals to help India to win gold. Mewalal became the "first Indian to score a hat-trick since independence" when he scored it against Burma at 1952 Colombo Cup where as D'Souza is the "first Asian player to score a hat-trick in an Olympic Games", scoring a hat-trick against Australia at 1956 Olympics and also was the joint-highest-goal-scorer in that edition of the Games which helped India to reach the semi-final, the best ever India's performance at the Olympics.