Author: stick2hockey

s2h team Meeting South Korea successively second time after outplaying them in the league, India today overcame improved rival 2-0 in the semifinal. Savita’s team put up a sterling display once again in front of ...

Germany won the Sultan of Johor Cup when they took part for the first time in 2012. Both India and Germany then played the final too, with the latter winning on a tight score of ...

Clinical Indian women pumped in five goals without answer against South Korea today in the last pool match to post their record fifth continuous win in the on going Ranchi rendezvous. The salient feature of ...

K. ARUMUGAM India has a rich heritage of Women’s hockey. There had been a women’s league in some metros like Kolkata in the early 1920s. Their National Championship started in the late 1930s, stopped, and ...

It was supposed to be the best contest of the tournament, and it veritably turned out to be so. Host India and the reigning Asian Champions China dished out an exciting stuff at the Marang ...

ERROL D’CRUZ There was a silent hockey revolution that took place in Canada in the 1970s. And we’re not referring to the artificial surface that made its advent in Montreal at the 1976 Olympics. It ...

K. ARUMUGAM Two tournaments in which strong contender India figures start today within a gap of seven hours. While its opener of the 11th Sultan of Johor Cup at distant Malaysia for our colts, India ...

K. ARUMUGAM On the eve of India hosting an Asian Hockey Federation’s flagship event — the Jharkhand Asian Champions Trophy — its worthwhile to recollect India’s role in pioneering women’s hockey in Asia and Africa ...

K. ARUMUGAM Indian women’s hockey seems to be affected by a twin factor: The semifinal syndrome and sympathy factor. That realization dawned after a 0-4 semi-final humiliation by hosts and eventual gold medalists China at ...

K. ARUMUGAM India takes part in all age-group Asian Hockey Federation Championships. However, it doesn’t have a regular national under-18 or below age group teams. It might sound strange for a hockey nation of its ...