Indian Men's Hockey Women’s leaves for Commonwealth Games

Followed by the women team, the Indian men's hockey team left for the Commonwealth games yesterday. The male hockey team from India will play the first match on 25th of July a day after the female team have played their first match against Canada. Indian men will play against Wales in their opening match followed by matches against Scotland, Australia and South Africa. Here is full details of the matches to be played by India Hockey team in the Glasgow commonwealth games:

• Match 1- Against wales on July 25 at 13:30 IST
• Match 2 - Against Scotland on July 26 at 20:30 IST
• Match 3 - Against Australia on July 29 at 18:30 IST
• Match 4 - Against South Africa on July 31 at 20:30 IST.

If the team performs well they might qualify for the knock out stages.

This team has won silver medal in the last edition of Commonwealth games held in Delhi, India in the year 2010. But the teams recent performance in the hockey world cup 2014 was not satisfying and they ended up at number 9 position.

Indian Hockey Women’s Team leaves for Commonwealth Games

With less than a fortnight left for the commonwealth games to start in Glasgow, the Indian women’s hockey team today left for Scotland today. Commonwealth games will start on 23rd of this months and the Indian female hockey team will have sufficient time left to accommodate themselves to the conditions there and get the necessary preparations done.

Indian team have left the country on a high with recent win over Malaysia (6-0 series whitewash). The first match, female hockey team will play against Canada on 24-July. The other teams they will play include New Zealand, Trinidad & Tobago and South Africa. Trinidad & Tobago hockey team got the entry to this year commonwealth games after Pakistan team didn’t send the hockey teams.
In the last commonwealth games the team was unable to make it to the next round of semi-finals but this year team is focused on making it to the finals. The coach Neil Hawgood and the captain Ritu, both are very positive about the team fitness and form this time.

News about Men’s hockey team: Sardar Singh has been retained as captain of India Men’s hockey team for the commonwealth games.

Our best wishes to both the teams. 

T&T hockey team to play in Commonwelath 2014 after Pakistan teams exclusion

Internal board dispute has caused Pakistan hockey team not to participate in the 2014 commonwealth games. Though this is not a good news for a country like Pakistan where game is quiet popular and people connect emotionally to the game.

What happened is that the Pakistan Olympic Association got split into two bodies and only one of those by recognised by IOA. The Pakistan Hockey Federation backed by state sports authority thus showed no interest in POA that has IOC backing and decided not to send the hockey team. Interestingly the Pakistan hockey has failed to qualify for hockey world cup as well. I wish the disputed in the country get resolved soon and we'll need to seethe country doing well in hockey as they did in the past.

Pakistan hockey teams exclusion came as a good news for T&T hockey team. For a board who is facing financial crisis, participating in such a world class tournament would not only help financially but would be a learning curve for the team as well.

World Cup Hockey Matches

Though commonwelath games have few months to go, India is also organising one other mega sporting tournamnet called hocket world cup, tournamanet stsarted today and Hosts do have a very good start by beating archrivals Pakistan by 4-1