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Rajpal to lead India in Asian Champions Trophy BANGALORE: Chief coach Michael Nobbs kept a few of the promises he had made in the past few weeks, while allowing further time to take care of ...

Players get a day off for felicitation BANGALORE: Around a dozen players will leave the national hockey camp for a day, this time with the permission of Hockey India, to attend an event in Hyderabad ...

Why Adrian got the snub? NEW DELHI: Did the trip to Mumbai for the World Series Hockey launch in July prove to be goalkeeper Adrian D’Souza’s undoing? Sources said that Hockey India had wanted the ...

‘Promised land’ for players Thirteen players from the National probables’ camp, underway at the Sports Authority of India campus here, left for Hyderabad on Tuesday night to receive their ‘pro-mised land,’ a move approved by ...

Rajpal to lead India in Asian Champions Trophy Forward Rajpal Singh was on Tuesday renamed as Indian hockey team’s captain for next month’s inaugural Asian Champions Trophy in Ordos, China. Rajpal, who gave away the ...

Players learning to think on feet BANGALORE: A clever indirect variation in a penalty corner, conceived and executed by midfielder Sardar Singh, was one of the highlights on the final day of the hockey selection ...

New-look team to be named soon A new-look Indian hockey team, under chief coach Michael Nobbs, will be named most likely by Tuesday for the Asian Champions Trophy to be held in Ordos, China, from ...

Thirty former hockey Olympians to be honoured on Monday BHOPAL: To celebrate the platinum jubilee of the ‘golden’ victory by the Indian hockey team in Berlin Olympics on August 15, 1936, Madhya Pradesh chief minister ...

Balbir unhappy with ’keepers’ Hockey India selectors wrapped up the two-day trials to pick the squad for inaugural Asian Champions Trophy at the Sports Authority of India campus here on Sunday, Col Balbir Singh expressing ...

Indian hockey still in a state of crisis Stickwork Gurbux Singh I was thinking that the two warring factions — Hockey India (HI) and Indian Hockey Federation (IHF) — would bury the hatchet and work ...