Son of hockey wizard Dhyan Chand, Ashok Kumar scored an important goal in the gold medal match for India against Pakistan in the 1975 World Cup in Kuala Lumpur.
India resume their FIH Pro League with fixtures against Argentina on April 10 and 11, then meet Great Britain on May 8 and 9, and Spain on May 12 and 13 -- all away matches
The Indian team will resume its Pro League campaign in April with an away tie against Argentina, according to a revised fixtures announced by the International Hockey Federation on Thursday.
The election of Mohd Mushtaque Ahmad as Hockey India president in 2018 has been a matter of controversy between the NSF and the Sports ministry.
The FIH was forced to make a new schedule because of the COVID-19 pandemic that has affected all sporting events across the world
The election of Mushtaque Ahmad as Hockey India president in 2018 has been a matter of controversy between the NSF and the ministry
The Indian girls were hoping to book their FIH Junior Women's World Cup ticket through the 2020 Women's Junior Asia Cup, which was to be held in Kakamigahara, Japan, from April 6, but was cancelled because of the pandemic.
The fund has been raised in just one week through a joint initiative of non-profit organisations Olympic Gold Quest, of which Viren Rasquinha is a Director and CEO, and Go Sports Foundation. They named the initiative #LetsStickTogether.
Both the Indian men's and women's national teams were stuck at the Sports Authority of India (SAI) South Centre in Bengaluru since March 25 when the government announced the nationwide lockdown to control the COVID-19 pandemic.
