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India women team works on minimizing errors Ritu Sejwal, TNN NEW DELHI: The Indian women’s hockey team showcased some of its best moves against Canada in their second match of the qualifiers at the National ...

Having enjoyed easy run so far, India face France on Tuesday Biswajyoti Brahma, TNN NEW DELHI: The fun days are over. It’s now time for some serious business. Having won the first two games without ...

No room for error in defence, says Dilip Tirkey NEW DELHI: Former India hockey captain and veteran defender Dilip Tirkey, a member of the national team’s support staff, was happy with the defence in the ...

On-song India face dangerous France Having realised that nothing less than victory in the current FIH Olympic Qualifiers would help resurrect the reeling national game, the players have matched action with talk through splendid on-field ...

Indian women ready for battle of unknowns Y. B. SARANGI It is a battle of unknowns, if one may say so. For, the only time the Indian women’s hockey team had played Poland was in ...

One has to market the game: Oltmans Roelant Oltmans, currently head coach for Delhi Wizards for the World Series Hockey tournament, is convinced India has a future in world hockey; and it is important hockey ...

India’s big hockey switch Saurabh Duggal, Hindustan Times While Hockey India (HI) continues to dismiss the threat of the World Series of Hockey (WSH), its former skipper, Rajpal Singh, has decided to join the ‘league ...

A penalty round the corner for every hockey spectator Navneet Singh, Hindustan Times Not so long back, former India skipper, Pargat Singh, had said, “Hockey is in intensive-care unit; it needs truckloads of oxygen to ...

Clinical India pound italy 8-1 M.S. Unnikrishnan Indian men found another whipping boys in Italy, pounding them by 8-1, to record their second successive victory in the Olympic Qualifying Men’s Hockey Tournament at the National ...

Rajpal owes fitness to Panjab University Neha Miglani, TNN CHANDIGARH: The day he forgets the way to Panjab University sports ground, former India hockey captain Rajpal Singh would end up losing his fitness is how ...