Indian hockey team goalkeeper PR Sreejesh reacts after receiving the Major Dhyanchand Khel Ratna, the country's highest sports honour. PR Sreejesh said that he is very happy to have received the award from Kerala. Very happy. Sreejesh said it was highly coveted as it was the country's first ever Olympic medal. Meanwhile, Chief Minister Pinarayi Vijayan congratulated Sreejesh for receiving the Khel Ratna award. Congratulations to India's Malayali hockey player, Olympian P Arasreejesh, who has been awarded Major Dhyanchand Khel Ratna, the country's highest sports honour. Sreejesh is the third Malayali to win the Khel Ratna Award. The Chief Minister said that he wishes Sreejesh to conquer more heights
Asian Games 2023: 5 games, 58 goals! Semi ticket for India in hockey
India continued their streak of success in Asian Games men's hockey and advanced to the semi-finals with yet another big win. In today's game, it was Bangladesh who knew India's striking power. India overwhelmed Bangladesh in a one-sided game. The Indian team celebrated a huge victory of 12 goals uncontested.Hat-tricks by captain Harmanpreet Singh and Mandeep Singh gave India an authentic victory against Bangladesh. Harmanpreet Thantai scored a hat-trick in minutes two, four and 32. Mandeep hit the target at 18, 24 and 46 minutes. Abhishek scored a brace while Lalit Kumar Upadhyay, Amit Rohidas, Neelkanda Sharma and Gurjant Singh joined in the celebrations each time. India have become one of the last four teams by winning all the five matches they have played so far. The Indian team has scored 58 goals from five matches. Only five were conceded. In the first game, India started by embarrassing Uzbekistan by scoring 16 goalsIndia repeated this against Singapore in the next match. India scored 16 goals in Singapore's net. A little bit of embarrassment and Singapore clawed back a goal. India's opponents in the third game were Japan. India managed to beat Japan by four goals to two. After that, India clashed with arch-rivals Pakistan. India beat Pakistan by 10 goals to two.
Come back from two goals down; India won the Champions Trophy
Indian hockey team won the Champions Trophy. The team made a quick comeback after falling behind by two goals. India also became the first team to win the Champions Trophy four times. India beat Malaysia in thrilling Champions Trophy Hockey final India won the final by four goals against three. The team came back after coming from behind. This is the fourth time that India has won the title in the tournament. Earlier in 2016 and later in 2018 they were joint winners with Pakistan. India scored the first goal through Jugraj Singh in the 9th minute. Malaysia equalized in the 14th minute through Abu Kamal Azra and then scored two more goals. Razi Rahim in the 18th minute and Aminuddin Muhammad in the 28th minute gave Malaysia the lead. After trailing by two goals, India smelled defeat. But a magnificent comeback from the Indian side. India made the score 3-2 with the goal scored by Harmanpreet Singh. Gurjant Singh scored a goal to tie the score at 3-3. The team's winning goal came with minutes to go. Akash Deep Singh scored the winning goal. India finally won the title by defeating Pakistan in the final. India is the first team to win four Champions Trophy titles. Pakistan has won three titles. In 2021, South Korea won the Champions Trophy by defeating Japan.
Odisha's bid to become a hockey state, governments should watch and learn from...
Hockey is the national sport of India. Another fact is that it is not officially in the government records. However, there is a move to promote hockey in the state of Odisha. Odisha is a model for other states in this regard... The Odisha government has come up with a new plan to nurture Hockey, which is known as India's national sport. Although hockey has not been declared as the official national sport of the country, it is as if hockey has been taken over completely by the Odisha government. The last two FIH (International Hockey Federation) Hockey World Cups were held in Odisha. While the 2018 FIH World Cup was staged in Bhubaneswar, Odisha hosted the 2023 World Cup in Rourkala along with Bhubaneswar. In other words, the Odisha government has built a quality venue just to host the World Cup in Rourkala in a short period of time. The Odisha government has now come up with a new plan to grow hockey from the grassroots level. The Odisha government will start 22 new hockey training centers in the state. The highlight of this project is to give young children competitive experience on synthetic turf. The new training centers are being set up by the State Youth Service Department and the Odisha Naval Tata Hockey High Performance Centre. At present 1300 children are practicing on synthetic turf in 18 hockey training centers. Each hockey training center has two coaches. Plans have also been formulated in this regard, including organizing club level competitions every weekend. India won a thriller against Australia in Pro League Hockey.