Category: Highlights

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 ...

Come October, India will see another Asian premier tournament on its soils. It will be hosting the Women’s Asian Champions Trophy at Ranchi, capital of Jharkhand State. Six top Asian nations including Thailand will be ...

K. ARUMUGAM To commemorate the 75th year of India’s Independence, Government of Odisha and Hockey India are bringing out a documentary entitled ‘India’s Game: Story of a team that united a Nation”. The film celebrates ...

Full credits to Malaysia. They stunned the packed stadium with a 3-1 lead, and put the formidable looking India on backfoot till at least half time.  It was a big mountain climb for India. They ...

The Indian Men’s Hockey Team stormed into the Final of the Hero Asian Champions Trophy Chennai 2023 after a comprehensive 5-0 victory against reigning Asian Games Champions Japan in the Semi Finals on Friday here ...

s2h team Aug 6: A lightening goal at the fag end of the first quarter by the local lad Kartik Selvam set the tune for a Sunday Festival of Hockey for India. Equally gem of ...