Xalxo, Sunil in the Azlan short list
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Two of the past stars, William Xalxo and SV Sunil – both missed various assignments due to injury – are among the found their name in the pruned national probables list announced by the Hockey India.
Hockey India conducted the Selection Trials on 04 & 05 April 2011 as the first phase of selection process at MDC National Stadium, New Delhi to shortlist the probables for the Indian Men’s Team for the 20th Sultan Azlan Shah Cup at Ipoh, Malaysia.
Xalxo was out of action in the last couple of years, while Sunil got injured during the run up to the 2010 World Cup. Xalxo played the 2004 Olympics, while SV Sunil won the gold at his maiden international outing — Asia Cup 2007
Hockey India Selectors Col. Balbir Singh, B.P. Govinda, Syed Ali, Thoiba Singh and A.B. Subbaiah besides Government Observers Harbinder Singh and Dilip Tirkey selected the 45 probables out of about 3 attended:
Goalkeepers
Bharat Kumar Chetri – Canara Bank
Adrian D’Souza – Air India
P.R. Sreejesh – Indian Overseas Bank
Gurpreet Singh – Air India
P. Naveen Kumar – Tamil Nadu
Defenders
Diwakar Ram – ONGC
Dhananjay Mahadik – Services
Rupinderpal Singh – Indian Overseas Bank
William Xalxo – Bharat Petroleum
V. Raghunath – Indian Oil
Amit Prabhakar – Uttar Pradesh
Gurjinder Singh – Chandigarh
Sunil Yadav – Uttar Pradesh
Midfielders
Gurbaj Singh – Air India
Vikram Pillay – Air India
Ravi Pal – Bharat Petroleum
Vikas Pillay – Air India
Varinderjit Singh – Border Security Force
Birendra Lakra (Jr.) – Bharat Petroleum
V.S. Vinaya – Air India
Preetinder Singh – ONGC
Vikram Kant – Indian Oil
Ajitesh Roy – Punjab National Bank
Vikas Sharma – Indian Oil
Kothajit Singh – Indian Oil
Amardeep Ekka – Indian Overseas Bank
Rajesh Kumar – Services
Vikas Choudhary – ONGC
Forwards
Tushar Khandker – Bharat Petroleum
Shivendra Singh – Air India
Rajpal Singh – Indian Oil
Arjun Halappa – Air India
Roshan Minz – Indian Oil
Gurwinder Singh Chandi – ONGC
Mohd. Amir Khan – Air India
S.V. Sunil – Services
Mandeep Antil – ONGC
Danish Mujtaba – UP
Sarvanjeet Singh – Punjab & Sind Bank
Prabhdeep Singh – Chandigarh
Shashi Topno – Railways
Chinglensana – Railways
Hari Prasad – Bharat Petroleum
Bikas Toppo – ONGC
S. Arumugam – Services
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The selection process is a joke. Because domestic hockey situation is non existent, we keep getting the same old face rotating from one failure to the next. As we won’t have Sardara, our chances of doing well at the Azlan Shah tournament are poor. Sandeep will be missed just for his PCs, but not for his defending. HI & IHF are more interested in fighting each other than taking any sensible steps for the future improvement of our hockey. The Sc has also gone quiet about resolving the farcical stand off between the 2 factions. It claimed that they would take 1 week to fix this crap….
Regarding the final squad, I will be livid if Chandi makes a comeback. That will be going back to our age old problem of favourites getting the nod, rather than those who really deserve a chance.
how could we curse the cricket for damaging other games. if one go through this list, he could find some funny names like Hari Prasad, Vikas Chaudhary, Shashi Topno,Prabhdeep singh,rajesh kumar,Vikram kant etc. if this is the future of indian hockey then it is better we should stop playing it.