Ignace Tirkey: An enduring spirit The seniormost player in the team both in terms of age and national team experience, Ignace Tirkey provides crucial stability to the team. A left-half to start with, Ignace is ...
PR Sreejesh Parattu Raveendran Sreejesh is a rare hockey player from Kerala to represent the country at the Olympics; he is, in fact, one of the first hockey players from the state in a long ...
Shankar Laxman was the first goalkeeper to lead India at the Asian Games; now after so many decades comes even better honour for a goalie, with Bharat Chetri having been made the team leader of ...
15 June 2012: Hockey India today has announced gathering of Olympian gold medallists to honour them on the eve of London Olympics. This is the third time in Delhi that almost all Olympians medallists will ...
Sandeep Singh gets a booty Rs.47 lac (USD 94k); and a few questions. Haryana chief minister, Bhupinder Singh Hooda on Wednesday gave away cash awards amounting to Rs 1.08 crore to Haryana hockey players (men ...
Goalkeeper Bharat Chetri will lead India in the London Olympics. Hockey India has announced the 16-member team with two standbys. Dharamvir Singh made it to the 16 while much experienced Sarwanjit moves down to Standby ...
Simple Stat. India finished third in a competition that had six London Olympic teams. Simple Projection: India sixth in the Olympics. This seems to be our realistic London prospects after watching India’s performance in the ...
India wins bronze; as ‘no-goalie’ policy backfires Sardar Singh’s exceptional ability to swing things his way came in handy for India to churn out a Champagne stuff to defeat Great Britain 3-1 and thus win ...
Statistical Highlights of Sultan Azlan Shah Cup Last seven playing days witnessed 21 matches, three each a day. 21 Matches produced 88 goals First half goals: 33 Second half goals: 55 Field Goals: 57 Penalty ...
Sohai Abbas: “Even had won the Cup, it would not have made much difference” Unable to hold on to the half time lead, Pakistan succumbed to Great Britain in the second half to lose the ...