An 18 member India Junior Men’s team will participate in the Genting Four Nation Hockey Tournament at Johor Bahru, Malaysia, from 11-15 March.

This is the Test event for the Junior World Cup to be co-hosted at Singapore and Malaysia in June this year.

Pakistan, Singapore and Malaysia are the other teams in the fray.

The Indian colts have been preparing in all earnest since last year for the World Cup. They won the Asia Cup at Hyderabad in July and followed up with Test series victories against reigning World champions Argentina and European powerhouse Holland in December. They also participated in two domestic tournaments finishing as winners of the Nehru and runners up of the Maharaja Ranjit Singh tournament.

The squad also won the silver medal in the Four Nation at Sydney in January this year.

The squad is as under :

Mrinal Chaubey & C.Santosh Kumar (Goalkeepers)
Diwakar Ram (Capt), Innocent Kullu & Sunil Yadav (Defenders)
Birender Lakra, Vikas Sharma, Belsajar Horo, Amardeep Ekka & Manjeet Kullu (Midfielders)
Mandip Antil, Jay Karan, Danish Mujtaba, Victo Singh, Mohd. Amir Khan, Pramod Kumar, Mohd. Asif Khan & Lalit Upadhyay (Forwards)

Officials :

Anupam Ghulati (Manager)
A.K. Bansal (Chief Coach)
Clarence Lobo (Coach)
Shrikant Iyengar (Physiotherapist)
Harsha Vardhan Gandham (Umpire)

Tournament Schedule

11 March Pakistan v Singapore
India v Malaysia
12 March India v Singapore
Pakistan v Malaysia
13 March India v Pakistan
Malaysia v Singapore
14 March Rest Day
15 March 3rd – 4th Position Playoff
Final

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