31st October, Jalandhar: Delhi in the semis of the National Hockey Championship? Either we should be kidding or living in the 60s or 70s to think so. But it is true now. In an otherwise ...
Jallandhar: Punjab and Sind Bank, led by lanky Devinder Pal Singh, was successful in retaining the 62nd National Championship which concluded here at the Olympian Surjit Memorial Government Hockey Stadium in Jalandhar, Punjab. The city ...
31st October, Jalandhar: Delhi surprised the crowd here with a sterling performance against the traditional power Air India. Playing their second match in as many days, the Bikas Toppo led Delhi defeated Air India hands ...
When Namdharies play with cool head, it is often said in the hockey circles, they are invincible. The team in impeccable white gear, notorious for onfield violence, for once shed its traditional image, and played ...
29th October 2006: Previous edition finalists Punjab & Sind Bank and Indian Oil Corporation have made it to the semifinals, while the hosts Punjab suffered a setback going down to energetic Namdhari. Though all three ...
29th October 2006: Previous edition finalists Punjab & Sind Bank and Indian Oil Corporation have made it to the semifinals, while the hosts Punjab suffered a setback going down to energetic Namdhari. Though all three ...
Anything hockey in Punjab is a big thing. And now the real big thing — National Championship — is being staged there. Despite short notice for organization and utterly wrong timed — due to simultaneous ...
October 23: Ad hoc planning always leads to indignation. So, one can’t find fault with when Air India Hockey Team Manager Peter Saldanha feels that they have been wronged by the Indian Hockey Federation. In ...
When the first ever All Asian Hockey Star XI was selected after the 1974 Teheran Asian Games, a match against Indian XI was allotted to Delhi, but it had no takers. Neither Indian Hockey Federation ...
Two disastrous world cup campaigns that India had in the recent times thankfully do not seem to dampen the hockey spirit back home in India. Further fortunately, we did not see the irritating cycle of ...