Indian hockey
Savita to lead women's team in Asia Cup hockey
The 18-member Indian team for the tournament, to be played at the Sultan Qaboos Sports Complex in Muscat, looks formidable with 16 players from the side that was part of the historic fourth-place finish at the Tokyo Olympic Games 2020. Defending champions India will battle it out against China, Indonesia, Japan, Malaysia, Singapore, South Korea and Thailand for the title. The top-four teams from this tournament will qualify for the 2022 FIH Women's Hockey World Cup to be held in Spain and the Netherlands.
Qualifying for WC will be a key objective for Indian team at Asia Cup, says coach Schopman
India will enter Asia Cup as defending champions and the winner of the event will qualify for the World Cup, which will be held in the Netherlands and Spain from July 1 to 17 this year. The quadrennial competition will also set the stage as the first major competition for the Indian eves in the new year and the Indian coach wants to see where her team is at the moment.
Unfortunate we lost to Argentina, pain will remain forever: Hockey captain Rani
"I feel 100 per cent we could have won the semifinal match against Argentina. We took an early lead in the match and put them under pressure. We executed everything (the) coaches told us but conceding PCs (penalty corners) cost us," Rani said on Friday.
Men's jr national hockey: Uttar Pradesh beat Chandigarh 3-1 to win title
Tournament top scorer Sharda Nand Tiwari opened the scoring for Uttar Pradesh Hockey in the 15th minute with a trademark penalty corner before Arun Sahani (16', 34') stretched Uttar Pradesh Hockey's lead further with a brace. Raman pulled one goal back for Hockey Chandigarh in the 51st minute, but Uttar Pradesh held on to the lead to be crowned champions of the tournament.
After high of 2021, hockey teams gear up for make-or-break year
2022 will be a busy year for the Indian hockey teams as they now have to prove that success at the Tokyo Olympics in July-August 2021 was not a flash in the pan and that they can successfully replicate the results in the upcoming events. In that sense, 2022 will be very crucial -- and hectic too -- because the teams will have to work on a triple-peak system, as the schedule includes the Commonwealth Games in Birmingham (July 28-August 8), followed by the Asian Games at Hangzhou from September 10-25.
India men placed third in year-end hockey rankings; women in ninth spot
India are ranked third in men's rankings and ninth in women's section in the year-end rankings revealed on Thursday. Besides the Tokyo Olympics, where they won an Olympic medal after a gap of four decades, the Indian men's hockey team also bagged a bronze medal in the 2021 Asian Champions Trophy in Dhaka, Bangladesh, on Wednesday.
Asian Champions Trophy: India beat Pakistan 4-3, win bronze medal
India took the lead in the opening stage of the game after Harmanpreet Singh scored from the penalty corner. However, Pakistan's Afraz scored soon after that and equalised the score. Abdul Rana hit Pakistan's second goal as India went behind 1-2 in the third quarter of play. The men-in-blue took a crucial 3-2 lead in the final quarter with Varun Kumar and Gursahibjit Singh's goal.
Asian Champions Trophy: India slump to 3-5 defeat to Japan in semis
India dominated possession (54% to 46%), had more circle penetrations (23-10), and scored more goals off penalty corners (2 off 5 as against 1 off 6 by Japan) but in the end, it all went in vain as their listless performance in the first half ended their hopes. Japan 5 (Shota Yamada 1st min, Raiki Fujishima 2nd min, Yoshiki Kirishita 29th min, Kosei Kawabe 35th min, Ryoma Ooka 41st min) beat India 3 (Dilpreet Singh 17th min, Harmanpreet Singh 53rd min, Hardik Singh 59th min).
Asian Champions Trophy: Confident India to take on Japan in semis on Tuesday
Highlighting the importance of not getting complacent with any opponent, Manpreet stated that the team will play with high tempo in the semifinal final against Japan. "This is our first competition after the Olympic success and we never came into the tournament thinking the matches will be easy for us. These are all tough teams and I believe they will play with different energy and tempo in the knockout stage," Manpreet said.
India ease past Japan, maintain unbeaten run in Men's Asian Champions Trophy 2021
Harmanpreet Singh, (10', 53') Dilpreet Singh (23'), Jarmanpreet Singh (34'), Sumit (46'), and Shamsher Singh (54') scored the goals as Team India picked up a big win. India are in contention for their third consecutive title at the Asian Champions Trophy, having won the prestigious tournament in 2016 and joint winners in 2018.
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