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K ARUMUGAM Its business end of the Asian Games hockey. The best four teams have entered the semis. What went awry is the FIH ranking! Second seeded Malaysia has been unseated by China who ranked ...

ERROL D’CRUZ The Indian camp must have heaved a collective sigh of relief after China deprived Malaysia of a semi-final spot in the 2022 Asian Games hockey in Hangzhou with a draw on Monday. It ...

K ARUMUGAM Pakistan, in a desperate and valiant attempt to keep semifinal chance alive, played their best hockey of the Asian Games today but could not overcome gritty defending champions Japan. Needing a win to ...

K ARUMUGAM Heavy scoring seems to be a favourite game of Indians here. Second outing in succession, they unleashed a deadly dozen today at the picturesque Ghonsu Canal Sports Park stadium, Hangzhou. Like Pakistan the ...

ERROL D’CRUZ The terrorist attack on December 16, 2014, claimed the lives of 134 school children among 150 dead in Peshawar, Pakistan. It was on the day that a motorcade through the city of Lahore ...

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. ...