Last week, Sports Minister Kiren Rijiju held a series of video conferences to take the athletes' view on the matter.
Joel Baker scored in the last minute of the match to help New Zealand shock World champions Germany 3-2 in the play-off and finish third in the four-nation Punjab Gold Cup hockey tournament in Chandigarh on Monday. The teams were locked 2-2 till the last minute when Baker scored to carve out a memorable victory for his team.
With the outcome of the previous match assuring India a place in the final, the relaxed hosts beat New Zealand 3-2 in the last league match of four-nation Punjab Gold Cup hockey tournament in Chandigarh on Saturday.
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Pakistan beat India 6-1 in the four-nation Rabobank hockey tournament on Tuesday.
They beat Universities and Mumbai respectively to enter the Super League stage in the Senior hockey nationals.
Sloppy defending cost India dearly as they conceded a late goal and went down 1-2 to higher-ranked New Zealand in their second league match on Day 2 of the 24th Sultan Azlan Shah Cup hockey tournament in Ipoh.
Pakistan beat India 2-1 as Sohail Abbas broke Mark Hagger's Champions Trophy record of 32 goals.
After two straight defeats the Indian team is looking to pick full points against a depleted German side.
India crashed to their third straight defeat, losing to China in the KT Cup women's hockey tournament at Seongnam, Korea.
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In another match in the Robobank four-nation hockey tournament Germany humbled Pakistan 6-0.
The arch-rivals scored easy victories over South Africa and Japan respectively in the four-nation junior hockey tournament in Karachi.
India made the grade in the four-nation tournament in Japan after the Koreans beat Japan in the last league match.
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The former champions drew with Andhra Pradesh and completed their league engagements with seven points, in the National Games' hockey competition.
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The Indian Juniors drubbed Pakistan 5-0 to lift the Six-nation Junior Challenge Cup Hockey tournament in Poland.
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