Defending champions India and South Korea were declared joint winners of the Sultan Azlan Shah hockey tournament as the summit clash between the two teams was called off due to rain. The final match was abandoned after six minutes of play as the heavy showers lashed the turf. India had lost only one match, against [...]
Defending champions India quelled a late Korean surge to eke out a narrow 3-2 victory and stretch their unbeaten run in the Sultan Azlan Shah Cup hockey tournament on Sunday. The Indian scorers were Arjun Halappa (10th minute), Tushar Khandker (45th) and Shivendra Singh (60th), while Korea scored through two penalty corner strikes by Nam [...]
The Indian men’s hockey team jumped three rungs to 10th in the International Hockey Federation (FIH) rankings issued on Monday. The eight-time Olympic champions, with 1280 points, however, are two spots behind their arch-rivals Pakistan (1460 points). Olympic and world champions Germany lead the table with 2530 points, followed by Athens Olympic gold medallists Australia [...]
India conceded a goal in the dying moments to lose the final of the Punjab Gold Cup hockey tournament 1-2 against European champions the Netherlands here on Monday. Tournament top-scorer Jeroen Hertzberger converted a penalty corner in the 66th minute to break Indian hearts in the final, played under lights before a packed Sector-42 hockey [...]
Pakistan Hockey Federation on Thursday said although it’s keen to send the national team to India for a four-nation tournament later this month, a final decision on the tour would be taken by the Foreign Ministry. PHF President Qasim Zia today met sports ministry officials in Islamabad before announcing that the government and foreign office [...]
Miffed with India’s decision to cancel its cricket team’s tour here, Pakistan’s sports ministry may block its national hockey and squash teams’ visit to India. Pakistani sports minister Pir Aftab Shah Jillani made it clear he was not in favour of sending teams to India if “they didn’t want to send their cricket team to [...]
Indian hockey has a new coach of the men’s team in M K Kaushik and no wonder he has an arduous task facing him. “This is true that I have to start from the scratch. But we cannot fall from here and I am sure that hereafter everything is going to be right as far [...]
Former Olympian Maharaj Krishan Kaushik was on Wednesday appointed India’s new field hockey coach for a two-year term, ending months of suspense over the job. Kaushik, 53, was named in a media release by the ad hoc committee running Indian hockey to succeed Joaquim Carvalho, who quit in March after the former champions failed to [...]
Olympian M K Kaushik has a clear edge over Harendra Singh, A K Bansal and A B Subbaiah to take over as the new coach of the senior men’s hockey team. The ad-hoc selection committee, headed by Ajit Pal Singh, on Tuesday held a marathon six-and-half-hour long meeting here to discuss the next coach besides [...]
India could become a good footballing side over the next three years after their AFC Challenge Cup victory earlier this month qualified them for the 2011 Asian Cup, according to the side’s captain Baichung Bhutia. “It was a massive victory because we have qualified to play in the Asian Cup… the biggest tournament in Asian [...]
Before starting, I would like to point out that not many people are going to like this article. I do not want to take anything away from India’s first individual gold medalist Abhinav Bindra but would like to point out that India really need to get their act together and plan for the next edition [...]
It was a tight final as India just about managed to beat South Korea 3-2 in extra-time to clinch the Junior Asia Cup hockey crown. Diwakar Ram’s goal in the extra time by converting a penalty corner did the trick for India to not only retain the trophy, but to also add to the flavour [...]
The International Hockey Federation (FIH) today confirmed that the 2010 Hockey World Cup will be held in India. Although the decision to hold the Hockey World Cup 2010 in India was made last year, the decision was later put on hold after India failed to quality for the Beijing Olympics earlier this year. The federation [...]
Defending champions India beat Pakistan 3-1 through Diwakar Ram’s brace to storm into the final of the Junior Asia Cup hockey tournament on Wednesday in an ill-tempered match that saw players of both sides exchange blows in the first half. Diwakar, who has been in brilliant form throughout the tournament, with his two second-half goals [...]
In a sensational allegation, several unnamed Malaysian hockey players have been accused by their own governing body of fixing a match against India in the Sultan Azlan Shah Cup last month. The players had placed online bets on Malaysia losing the last round-robin game against India on May 17, a Malaysian tabloid alleged in a [...]
India settled for Silver after falling to Argentina in the finals of the Azlan Shah hockey tournament. Argentina scored the winning goal during the extra-time by 2-1 in Ipoh, Malaysia on Sunday. Mario Almada saw their side lift the trophy with the goal during the extra-time after initially making repeated attempts. Sandeep Singh had scored [...]
India raced into the final of the Sultan Azlan Shah hockey tournament by beating Malaysia 2-1 in their final league match in Ipoh, Malaysia. The two goals from India came in the first half of the match, whereas the Malaysians could only manage their only goal during the last few minutes of the game. This [...]
CHAK DE INDIA – 3rd straight win India notched a stunning victory of 2-1 over their arch-rivals Pakistan to stay in contention in the Azlan Shah hockey tournament in Ipoh, Malaysia today. Sandeep Singh (sixth minute) and Diwakar Ram (20th minute) scored a goal each for India, while Mohammad Saqlain (58th minute) scored the goal [...]
India beat Belgium 6-4 to keep themselves afloat in the Sultan Azlan Shah Hockey Tournament, in Ipoh, Malaysia. The Indians blasted off to a 5-1 lead by half-time, but Belgium fought back brilliantly to score three goals in the second session. The young Indians held on their lead to register their second successive win in [...]
India suffered a very embarassing 5-1 defeat against Argentina in the Sultan Azlan Shah hockey tournament in Ipoh, Malaysia on Friday. The Indians, who had lost 4-3 to New Zealand in their opening match, put up a rather pathetic display to find themselves at the bottom of the points table after the first two matches. [...]