Hockey India on Friday introduced a 20-member males’s squad for the Asian Champions Trophy to be held in Dhaka, Bangladesh.
Tokyo Olympic bronze medalist India will start their marketing campaign in opposition to Korea on December 14, adopted by their match in opposition to hosts Bangladesh on December 15.
Their third match shall be in opposition to arch-rivals Pakistan on 17 December adopted by India on 18 December in opposition to Malaysia after which on 19 December in opposition to Japan.
The semi-finals shall be performed on December 21 adopted by the ultimate on December 22. The earlier version was held in Muscat, Oman, the place India collectively received the title with Pakistan after the ultimate was known as off because of incessant rain.
Manpreet Singh will captain the crew and Harmanpreet Singh would be the deputy.
The crew consists of goalkeepers Krishan B Pathak and Suraj Karkera.
Harmanpreet Singh will lead the cost with Gurinder Singh, Jarmanpreet Singh, Neelam Sanjeev Zess, Deepson Tirkey, Varun Kumar and Mandeep Mor within the defence.
Manpreet Singh, Hardik Singh, Manpreet Singh, Jaskaran Singh, Sumit, Rajkumar Pal, Shamsher Singh and the skilled Akashdeep Singh will patrol the midfield.
The ahead line shall be led by Lalit Kumar Upadhyay, Dilpreet Singh, Gursahibjit Singh and Shilanand Lakra.
He stated, ‘While choosing this crew, now our eyes ought to be on the longer term. Building on sustained success requires a deep and powerful crew, so gamers ought to be given alternatives to carry out,” stated head coach Graham Reid.
“We have picked a crew that has a superb mixture of expertise and younger individuals who can have an opportunity to point out what they will do. It is a busy match schedule and in view of the COVID-19 scenario, the FIH and AHF have allowed 18 gamers to select from a big squad of 20 every.
“We are waiting for the challenge,” he stated.
Shaft
Goalkeeper: Krishan Bahadur Pathak, Suraj Karkera
Protector: Harmanpreet Singh (VC), Gurinder Singh, Jarmanpreet Singh, Deepson Tirkey, Varun Kumar, Neelam Sanjeev Zess, Mandeep Mor
Midfielder: Hardik Singh, Manpreet Singh (c), Jaskaran Singh, Sumit, Rajkumar Pal, Akashdeep Singh, Shamsher Singh
forward: Lalit Kumar Upadhyay, Dilpreet Singh, Gursahibjit Singh, Shilanand Lakra
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With inputs from TheIndianEXPRESS
