They started with 32 teams last year. Now, increased to 40 plus teams. The Hockey India Legue’s local outfit Delhi Waveriders’ tryst with schools hockey grows.
The second edition, which is underway, is fast becoming a name to reckon with among Delhi school kids.
This year, the event is so perfectly timed that it has struck a responsive chord among both private and public schools
Simply because Delhi schools are now on winter break, and what better way than to warm up in a multi-school hockey event, like the one going on on both the turfs, to relish.
The tournament now is on sixth day, and witnessed as usual some intense matches and not-so-good matches, which is a trend in any competition-starved sporting discipline which Indian schools hockey definitely is.
Today, the 13th Jan, which is sixth day of the event, Ashok Vihar came cropper against ever-improving Saket J block team to whom it lost 0-6. Incidentally, both teams are from the known stable of Delhi Schools hockey, One Thousand Hockey Legs.
Govt Boys School, Bagner, defeated Janakpur 2 with a tennis like score, while Mota Singh mauled
Mandir Marg DTEA with 8-0 drubbing.
Shapurjat, a good side, went down to Kulachi Hansraj 2-1
The tournament is organized in the memory of Pondy Chhada, the founder of Wave group of Instituions, one of which is Franchise of HHIL.
We hope other five Franchises too emulate Waveriders in their area whose label they sport in HHIL.