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Hockey is not all about penalty corners: Taekema Modern hockey experts may feel that penalty corners are the most potent weapon to win matches, but famed Dutch drag-flicker Taeke Taekema thinks otherwise. Taekema says that ...

Indoor or outdoor, Balwanth’s love is hockey Shanyl Balwanth is one of the few field hockey players who have also represented their country in international indoor hockey. But this is not his only claim to ...

Backroom boys add to teams’ cutting edge Half-a-dozen tacticians standing at a vantage point, capturing every move on their cameras and gazing into laptops for the entire duration of the game. Meet the die-hard video-analysts ...

International body to help untangle affiliation issue March 10 is a rest day at the Hero Honda FIH Hockey World Cup. But for Hockey India and international hockey federation (FIH) officials, it’ll be a working ...

Ignored: Hockey India gives cold shoulder to national selectors India might have won one game and lost the next two, but as far as Hockey India is concerned, the players’ performances count for nothing much. ...

Are penalty corners taking too long? Prabhjot Singh writes from New Delhi Hockey, though 102 years old in Olympics, is still evolving. Some changes, including video referral, have been necessitated not only because of advancement ...

Defensive lapses cost us dear: Zeeshan Y.B. Sarangi NEW DELHI: Pakistan captain Zeeshan Ashraf agreed that defensive lapses let his team down against England in the hockey World Cup on Thursday. “We made some mistakes ...

Our semis chances nearly over: Brasa Y.B. Sarangi NEW DELHI: Following India’s 5-2 loss to Spain in the hockey World Cup, chief coach Jose Brasa on Thursday said the home team’s chance of reaching the ...

Spanish armada sinks India in a key encounter S. Thyagarajan New Delhi: All the excitement, expectations and vociferous support generated by a packed gathering at the Dhyan Chand Stadium on Thursday failed to inspire India ...

We could have won the match by bigger margin: Dutch coach NEW DELHI: The Netherlands captain Tuen de Nooijer said his side could have defeated New Zealand by a bigger margin had they not wasted ...