Indian hockey

With this result, Australia sealed the three-match bilateral series 2-0, after winning the first two games 4-2 and 3-2, respectively. The Indian women will next take on Australia A in two practice matches, the first of which will be played on May 25 at Adelaide.

With this win, the hosts took a 2-0 lead in the series, which is a key build-up tournament for the Indian women's team for the Asian Games in September.

This will be the team's first outing under newly-appointed Chief Coach Craig Fulton while the team will continue to be led by ace dragflicker and defender Harmanpreet Singh and Vice Captained by the prolific midfielder Hardik Singh. The team features goalkeepers Krishan Bahadur Pathak. He returns to the squad after missing the home matches due to his wedding.

"No one will come out in streets unless one was seriously piqued and harassed to the brim," said Pargat Singh, assailing all those sportsmen and women who went through similar situations but were now sitting mute spectators. "It is such a serious matter. A sportsperson knows how hard it is to come to a national and international level. And if such exploitation of athletes takes place at the highest level, it is even beyond holding one's head of shame and remain part of the sports administration."

India and Pakistan are in Pool A along with Japan, Thailand and Chinese Taipei in the 10-team competition and will meet on May 27 in a group clash. Group B comprises South Korea, Malaysia, hosts Oman, Bangladesh and Uzbekistan, the Asian Hockey Federation (AHF) has announced. Teams in the preliminary round will play on a round-robin basis in their respective pools with the top two finishers in each group qualifying for the semifinals, which will be played on May 31. The final will be played on June 1.

16-year-old Sunelita hails from Kukuda village in Sundargarh, which is the second largest and mineral-rich district of Odisha and also the home to several tribes with one thing common across villages - hockey. Notably, 90 percent of Odisha's hockey players come from Sundargarh, so, it was pretty natural for Sunelita to pick up the hockey stick and she did the same at the age of eight.

The camp will help players put in the hard yards to fine-tune their strategies and combinations further ahead of the Indian Women's Hockey Team's tour to Australia as a preparatory event ahead of the Asian Games in China. The Core Group for the National Camp includes goalkeepers Savita, Rajani Etimarpu, Bichu Devi Kharibam and Bansari Solanki. Among the defenders named for the camp are Deep Grace Ekka, Gurjit Kaur etc.

The governing body of Hockey in India has earlier announced Craig Fulton as the new chief coach for the men's hockey team. Hockey India also announced that former Japan women's hockey team head coach Anthony Farry will fill in the position of analytical coach of the Indian women's hockey team.

The camp will conclude on May 21 ahead of the team's trip to Europe where they will take on Belgium, Great Britain, Netherlands and Argentina in the remaining season of FIH Hockey Pro League 2022-2023. The core group called-up for the national coaching camp includes Krishan Bahadur Pathak, Sreejesh Parattu Raveendran, Suraj Karkera, Pawan Malik, Prashant Kumar, Jarmanpreet Singh, Surender Kumar, Harmanpreet Singh.

It was the first-ever World Championship win for Israel's women's team, who joined the international arena last year, reports Xinhua. Israel thus completed their games in the three-team group with a 1-3 win-loss record, while Bosnia are currently 1-2 in the tournament.