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Hanging on to ‘lucky’ cramped rooms Firoz Mirza, Hindustan Times They spent five days cooped up — 5-6 players in each room — at the MLA rest house as the organisers of the Senior National ...

Tough times ahead as teams get ready for quarterfinals B Shrikant, Hindustan Times Will Prabhjot Singh and Deepak Thakur emerge as Air India’s nemesis once again? The two stalwarts had led the attack superbly when ...

Air India face Karnataka test Sudheendra Tripathi, TNN BHOPAL: Air India will have to really play out of their skins if they hope to make it to the last four of the men’s Senior National ...

We need players with power and speed: Thoiba Sudheendra Tripathi, TNN BHOPAL: Hockey in India has had the privilege of having the patronage of Thoiba Singh and as a dauntless pedant, the diminutive left-winger surged ...

Top teams can have tough time in national hockey quarters BHOPAL: The national hockey championship has reached its league end and the knockout stage, starting on Thursday, should produce tougher contests. The league phase with ...

Hockey India wants sponsorship money hiked By Mihir Vasavda Hockey India (HI) wants a five-fold hike in the sponsorship amount from the national team sponsor, Sahara, a demand that has put renewal of the contract ...

THE exodus has begun by Paritosh Pramnik. With Hockey India’s (HI) adamant stand on one-state-one-unit, chances of Vidarbha hockey team’s participation in national tournaments are all but over. In the first senior national championships, under ...

IHF not willing to surrender its identity The Indian Hockey Federation (IHF) will not surrender its identity. It has made it clear to the Union Sports Ministry that it would need a week’s time to ...

Railways qualifies despite draw Railways, Puducherry, Karnataka, Air India, Kerala and Orissa qualified for the knockout rounds of Hockey India’s first National senior men’s championship here. Even though the keenly contested league match between Railways ...

A golden chance gone abegging Firoz Mirza, Hindustan Times The experimental rule of ‘shootout’ to break the deadlock at the end of the match, introduced by the international hockey federation (FIH), will not be implemented ...