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Semis battle gets underway Prabhjot Singh Tribune News Service When top four teams of the world are scheduled to play each other in a country whose national sport had been hockey, one would have expected ...

Big boys play tonight in the hockey World Cup New Delhi: Four consecutive wins on the trot, 23 goals in the preliminary league, a record margin (12-0) of victory against South Africa. The signs are ...

India have to learn the art of winning NEW DELHI: The group stage is over, India are in line to finish seventh and there is little excitement about that. Hockey has come home after years ...

Turf trauma queers World Cup pitch NEW DELHI: A senior Sports Authority of India (SAI) official, in his post on a social networking site recently, had criticised the Indian hockey team’s below-par showing in the ...

Asia falls flat at World Cup NEW DELHI: Former Olympians and coaches on Wednesday lamented the poor showing by Asian teams at the hockey World Cup, saying Europe and Australia were now the masters of ...

India top revenue contributor, World Cup hugely successful: FIH NEW DELHI: India contributed a major chunk of revenue earned by the International Hockey Federation and the ongoing World Cup is commercially a huge success, the ...

Man to man marking against India, says Argentine coach Argentina coach Pablo Lombi has some special plans for hosts India when the two teams face each other in a play-off for the seventh-eight positions at ...

Referral system not perfect, admits FIH After much criticism from all quarters, the International Hockey Federation on Wednesday accepted that the newly introduced referral system has some grey areas, which need to be ironed out ...

Germany start favourites against England in semifinal Defending champions Germany would start as favourites against European rivals England when they face each other in the semifinal of the hockey World Cup in New Delhi on ...

Indian support for good samaratian Spaniards When Spain take on South Korea on Friday for 5th-6th position, there will be some Indian hearts beating for the Spaniards. A group of nine children from Andhra Pradesh ...