Author: stick2hockey

K ARUMUGAM Despite dominating the field, India could not capitalize cornucopia of chances it created but in the end struggled to draw chances of which at one point of time looked dim against traditional rival ...

In a remarkable show of aggression, the measured Indian team outplayed and outsmarted Pakistan with a bigger than tennis score 10-2 to keep their all-win record. The flood-lit stadium here in Hangzhou saw goals raining ...

K ARUMUGAM Traditional rivals India and Pak – both with all win record here – will clash today in what can be categorized as a prestigious fight. India’s morale is up here with the stupendous ...

K. ARUMUGAM Never has India lost to Japan in the annals of the Asian Games. What made today’s encounter between the two regulars to the genre of competition since 1958 is that its for the ...

K ARUMUGAM There are only seven players here who have 200 or more caps. It includes five from India. Not only that.  Savita’s team is far ahead of others in terms of collective caps too. ...

K ARUMUGAM The Malaysians here are upbeat. They are sure they are top contenders here as in 2010 and 2018, last two recent times when they played the Asian Games final. That they failed on ...

Some interesting facts emerge on the team composition of Hangzhou teams who are in search of the   Asian supremacy. However, numbers do not support every team’s preparedness and competition worthiness. Top teams, for an instant, ...

K. ARUMUGAM India’s hockey glory, which largely refers to its feats in the Olympic sphere, doesn’t hold for the Asian Games. Whereas India won all the Olympic finals it entered barring once in 1960, its ‘finals’ ...

ERROL D’CRUZ Women’s hockey made its debut in the Asian Games in 1982. The Games were held in New Delhi and unlike the men’s team way back in 1958, the Indian women duly took their ...

ERROL D’CRUZ It’s Asian Games time again. And, no matter what the strutting by a buoyant Team India, there will be jitterbugs in the camp. After all, the quadrennial continental multigame show is a qualifying event ...