Category: Player Corner

Roop Singh: A match for Dhyan Chand Largely unknown and unsung, India’s greatest hockey player and Dhyan Chand’s younger brother Roop Singh is a forgotten hero. Date of Birth: September 8, 1908. Place: Jubbulpore, India. ...

Story of India’s first Olympic hockey captain Pramod Pahan (later Jaipal Singh). The ‘Oxford Blue’ rebel lost his Degree as leave refused for the Amsterdam Olympics Lost the prestigious ICS degree because of Hockey Fought ...

SK Uthappa: Let us wait and watch The bubbling youngster is a delightful forward, and has come into the team with lot of promise. Its not all the time happens in Indian hockey that you ...

Manpreet Singh: Our London Trump I saw Manpreet in Australia tour last November, Lanco 9s included, then in Delhi in the SA test series and OQ, and last at the Azlan Shah Cup, which works ...

Dharamvir Singh Lucky to be in London Dharamvir delighted Ipoh spectators last month with a bit more aggressive than the established stars in our frontline. Perhaps, a singular show has catapulted him to London, and ...

Gurwinder Singh Chandi: He can make a difference India in the run up to the Olympic Qualifier was in a desparete need to organize five matches, and that was how the South Africa Test Series ...

A hardworking horse with magic wand SV Sunil is one of the three players from Coorg in the London Olympics squad and, in the scheme of attacking hockey that the Indian team is playing now, ...

Shivendra Singh: A star on big event The 29-year-old is the most famous product of the erstwhile Premier Hockey League (PHL). Even though Shivendra had picked up the hockey stick much earlier, it was the ...

Danish Mujtaba: A surprise element in the London Pack Quiet looking, short guy Mujtaba is a story petrel on the turf. Hardly does he comes into the focus until he does the damage, — that’s ...

Tushar Khandker: Time to re-establish his status of a star Never do in the long career of Tushar, he will be so critically watched, as it would happen in London in four week’s time. For, ...