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The four-nation Punjab Gold Cup will now be a single-leg event with the organizers dropping Jalandhar as a venue. The reason being attributed is the astro-turf at the Surjeet Singh Memorial Stadium that could nt be changed because of infighting between government departments.

Accordingly to sources in Punjab hockey, the astro-turf could not be replaced because of the dispute over the choice of artificial turf. A committee appointed by the Chief Minister had preferred the synthetic granule-based German made astro-turf to the outdated nylon-fibre turf.