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Arrange P, Q, R, S to give the correct sequence of the passage given below.

P: We should have won the Olympic gold in

1984. The beautiful and elegant Zafar carried the tricolour in the march-past, but missed the German goal, and we were out in the quarter finals. How he and Shahid must have wept the night away.

Q: He was the greatest. Tears roll down my cheeks, making patterns in memory of Mohammad Shahid - 'Jalebi' patterns, crisscrossing, feinting one way, going the other; likejalebis being made in the timeless taiyyaa of Shahid's hockey field.

R: Shahid and Zafar - left-in and left-out - at the 1982 World Cup in Bombay. My dearest friend Saini and I watching together as Shahid and Zafar wove patterns with ball and stick that would have done MF Husain proud, Mirza Ghalib proud, Shammi Kapoor proud. They did not play hockey. They painted, composed, danced hockey. That was Shahid's move the Jalebi - in and out, dart here, dart there, stick one way, ball the other... only to meet on the other side of a befuddled defender.

S:  Mohammad Shahid was the Dilip Kumar of hockey, the tragic hero. Hockey changed, became a corporate game with planned moves and artificial surfaces and rigid fitness, and Shahid needed freedom and a canvas of in dividual colours. But he was the greatest, the last hockey hero. The last one, as if, with the blood of Dhyan Chand in his veins.

 

A) QRPS

B) SRQP

C) PRQS

D) PQRS

E) None of these