Monday, the 17th March 2003. The Indian team bound for the Sultan Azlan Cup had just concluded their concluding training session at the Major Dhyan Chand National Stadium, New Delhi. It was a morning practise ...
The global governing body of the sport of field hockey, FIH, is known for introducing something on great wisdom and later discarding it with even greater wisdom. We have seen this trait rearing its ugly ...
It is everyone’s duty to support the national team. To start with, coaches should support their players, especially when their morale is down and results are not coming in their favour. The players, on their ...
It’s a heartening happening. A whiff of fresh air is sweeping across the shores of global hockey. The old order, so entrenched in their victory mould for decades, seems to be breaking. Hockey’s hitherto unheralded ...
Recently, IWHF sources expressed surprise that three of their nominees for the prestigious Arjuna award were not considered by the concerned Selection Committee. Careful watchers surprise, not at the government’s decision, but at the list ...
After an extended period of lull, Indian women hockey has finally started off from the block. An 18-member team, led by the most experienced of the lot — Surajlata Devi — left for Moscow from ...
Hockey was included in the Afro-Asian Games on 23rd May last year when the General Assembly of National Sports Committees met at Rio De Janeiro in Brazil. Despite having enormous time at its disposal, the ...
SUNDAY, SEPTEMBER 16, 2001 WE LOST ONE EDITION OF INDIRA CUP WHEN BOMBAY WAS BOMBED by evil terrorists When I shifted my base in the early 90s from a city in central part of India ...
THURSDAY 1 MARCH, 2001: One more frustrating day for hockey fans When I contacted Hyderabad Hockey Association people around 15 hrs today when hardly an hour left for the commencement of the second hockey test ...
FRIDAY 23 Feb,2001: Bernhard Peters succeeded renowned coach Paul Lissek, whose contract was not renewed by the German Hockey Federation(DBH). Peters, his former deputy, is in charge of rebuilding German team that had failed to ...