Dilip Tirkey's team is confident of a good showing against Spain in its opening match of the Champions Trophy hockey tournament.
Indian eves launched their campaign in the Champions Challenge hockey tournament with a comfortable 3-0 victory over Wales in a Group-A match in Dublin on Saturday.
Indian men's hockey team lost 0-1 to New Zealand to slump to its its second defeat in the six-nation Invitational tournament and will now face the formidable Argentina in its penultimate round-robin match, in Valencia, on Friday.
Hockey greats Vasudevan Baskaran, M M Somaya and Mervyn Fernandis relive India's gold medal-winning campaign at the Moscow Olympics in 1980.
The same side will also compete in the World Cup qualifying tournament, against Fiji and New Zealand, from November 15-18.
'The level we played in Champions Trophy will not be enough for the Olympics if we are vying for a medal'
The 27-year-old said the Indian team's immediate focus is the FIH Hockey Pro League beginning next month.
The Indian junior men's team beat Pakistan in a thriller in the final of the Men's Junior Asia Cup 2023.
Under the contract, the sports channel will telecast all international matches to be played in the country over the next three years.
'A player cannot declare herself unfit or sick. This has to be certified by the tournament doctor.'
The presence of a sports psychologist during the preparatory camp contributed to the success off Indian women's hockey team in the Asia Cup and a full-time appointment will help produce better results in future events, feels chief coach MK Kaushik.
After a dismal eighth place finish in Rio Games, much is expected from the Manpreet-led side.
India might have failed to win the Azlan Shah Cup hockey tournament for a record sixth time, but coach Micheal Nobbs is delighted with the bronze medal showing and said his wards did enough to finish on the podium.
Hockey India (HI) has lifted the nine-month ban on Gurbaj Singh with immediate effect in the wake of Punjab and Haryana High Court's order that termed the suspension of the senior player "illegal".
Dragflicker Sandeep Singh made a return, while injured striker Shivendra Singh and midfielder Arjun Halappa have been rested from a 22-member Indian hockey squad for a tour of Europe, starting next month.
The camp getting underway in Bengaluru on Sunday will conclude on September 18.
Pakistan Hockey Federation is still awaiting the No Objection Certificate from its government to send its national squad for the Junior Hockey World Cup, to be held in Lucknow from December 8.
India Light Blues got the better of India Dark Blues, while India Juniors beat India under-18 in the Lal Bahadur Shastri hockey tournament.
High on form and confidence after last month's Azlan Shah triumph, defending champion India will start as overwhelming favourites in the seven-nation Asia Cup hockey tournament that gets underway in Kuantan, Malaysia on Saturday. However, India's road to the title won't be a cakewalk as the event will provide Asia's top hockey nations an opportunity to book their place in the 2010 World Cup to be held in New Delhi.
Indian hockey plunged into fresh controversy with reports of a players' revolt against its foreign coach, Jose Brasa, who is accused of being bias and autocratic in his functioning.
India's chief coach Harendra Singh blamed poor umpiring for his team's early ouster from the ongoing men's hockey World Cup in Bhubaneswar on Thursday.
From Prime Minister Narendra Modi to eminent sports personalities, the country was wholesome in its praise for the Indian hockey team after it clinched the Asian Champion Trophy by beating arch-rivals Pakistan in the finals at Kuantan, Malaysia on Sunday. Favourites India prevailed 3-2 over Pakistan to reclaim the trophy and present a perfect Diwali gift to the nation. PM Modi wrote on his twitter handle, "Very proud of our hockey team. Congratulations on winning the Asian Champions Trophy."
India, Australia, Australia 'A' and Pakistan will play two tournaments between May 28 and June 8, in Perth and Sydney.\n\n
Captain Deepak Thakur's brilliant hat-trick helped Indian Oil Corporation (IOC) rally brilliantly and beat Karnataka XI 4-3 in a quarter-final match of the DCB Presents Aga Khan hockey tournament - 2011, at the Bombay Gymkhana ground, in Mumbai, on Tuesday.
Indian women team's hopes of qualifying for the London Olympics went up in smoke after suffering a crushing 1-3 defeat against top-ranked South Africa in the finals of hockey qualifiers, on New Delhi on Saturday.
Summary of sports events and persons who made news on Monday.
A summary of sports events and persons who made news on Tuesday.
India will seek to end 43 years of hurt when they begin the Hockey World Cup campaign against South Africa on Wednesday.
International Mohammed Sarwar scored a brace of goals in the Pakistan team's 5-1 win over the Indian sailors.
The Bharatiya Janata Party on Wednesday stepped up its protest against Rahul Gandhi for his 'panauti' jibe against Prime Minister Narendra Modi and urged the Election Commission to take action against the Congress leader.
India would look to work on their penalty corner conversion rate when they take on Malaysia in their next Asian Champions Trophy match in Chennai on Sunday.
The series was to be played in Malaysia.
Roelant Oltmans fully understands what a men's hockey medal would mean to India's success-starved fans but the Dutch coach will not burden his players with the pressure of bringing one home from the Rio Games.
The Indian men's hockey team has been offered a cash reward of Rs. 1 crore for winning the World Cup.\n
India defeated Russia by a solitary goal in their final round-robin match to top the standings in the women's competition and progress to the third round of Hero Hockey World League at the Major Dhyan Chand Stadium in New Delhi.
Reader Virender Pal Singh sent us this picture from Dallas.
India captain Sardar Singh asserted that they have a lot to play for in the ongoing Hockey World League Semifinals.
