Error-prone India need nothing short of a miracle to secure a direct berth in next year’s Hockey World Cup as they take on formidable Australia in the quarter-final of the men’s competition of the FIH

A resurgent New Zealand held India 3-3 in their final Pool B league encounter of the FIH men’s World League Round 3 match in Rotterdam, Holland, on Monday.

India suffered a 1-7 thrashing at the hands of Germany to end their pool engagements on a disappointing note in the women’s competition of the FIH World League Round 3 here on Sunday.

India showed urgency but it was too little, too late as they suffered a 0-2 defeat at the hands of the Netherlands in their FIH World League Round 3 match here on Saturday.

Held to a draw by lower-ranked Ireland in their FIH World League Round 3 opener, the Indian men’s hockey team will have to regroup quickly and come up with something special against the Netherlands in

Former India women’s hockey team captain Rekha Bhide on Thursday wrote to sports minister Jitendra Singh, complaining of harassment and defamation by Hockey India for refusing to toe its secretary-general, Narinder Batra’s line.

National hockey chief coach Michael Nobbs has a simple formula for success: “If you want to be the best, you have to play the best.”

Back in the side after the London Olympics last year, star drag-flicker Sandeep Singh has credited his friend and cricketer Harbhajan Singh for helping him come out of the bad phase that sidelined him

Services got off to a buoyant start in the Hockey India men’s senior national hockey championships as they defeated Goa 28-0 in their first league match in Pool C at the Shiv Chattrapati Sports Complex in Pune on Saturday.
For the winners, Sanwar Ali struck eight goals while Siraju A.P. netted six.

Thanks to the cricket rigmarole, rather unduly delayed is this piece about the hockey Olympian Leslie Claudius, who passed away recently. He was the only player to have donned India colours in four successive Olympic Games in 1948, 1952, 1956 and 1960, when he captained the team, in Rome. It was most unfortunate for him to have been denied the gold in the final as in the previous three Olympics.