Subbaiah, Aldrin in HI selection panel

A B Subbaiah and Anil Aldrin have been named in the new selection panel named by Hockey India here on Wednesday.

B P Govinda, Muneer Sait and Madhu Yadav were all left out from the panel which has three female representatives in Rekha Bhide, Rajbir Kaur and Sita Mehta.

Other members of the panel include Col Balbir Singh, Syed Ali, Manohar Topno, Harpreet Singh and Thoiba Singh.

HI also decided to call the Indian coaching and support staff applicants for their presentations and discussions to the capital on January 22 and 23. The presentations and discussions with the foreign coaching and support staff applicants will be held subsequently.

The HI also appointed former India coach and Olympian Sukhvir Singh Grewal director for coaching and development for both men and women.

The sports ministry had already replaced Ajit Pal Singh and Zafar Iqbal with former India captain Dilip Tirkey and Olympian Harbinder Singh as the new government observers.
HI selection committee: Col. Balbir Singh, Syed Ali, Rekha Bhide, Rajbir Kaur, Manohar Topno, Thoiba Singh, Harpreet Singh, AB Subbaiah, Sita Mehta, Anil Aldrin.