Indoor hockey doesn’t get many weekends like this in the States. The US Women’s National Indoor Team hosts Ireland and Canada in Kennett Square, Pennsylvania from Friday 23 to Sunday 25 October, a three-team series that USA Field Hockey is running as a straight shootout for sharpness ahead of the next Indoor World Cup cycle….
New Zealand’s junior women get their turn now. Hockey New Zealand has named the Junior Black Sticks women’s squad for the Junior World Cup cycle, and it’s built on the group that won the Oceania qualifier on the Gold Coast this month. Kaea Elliott and Niamh Findlay are back in, Emma Shotter too, and there’s…
Tournament hockey leaves something behind when it’s done properly. Punjab is spending like it intends to. Around ₹25 crore has been earmarked to bring the two Asian Champions Trophy stadiums up to international standard, Mohali mayor and AAP Punjab leader Sarabjit Singh said in Chandigarh on Wednesday, in IANS reporting. Roughly ₹16 crore of it…
New Zealand’s next generation already has medals. Now it gets its World Cup. Hockey New Zealand has named the 18-man Junior Black Sticks squad for the Junior World Cup cycle, and the core of it is no mystery to anyone who watched Johor last year. This is the group that took silver at the 2025…
Some appointments are paperwork. This one’s a statement. PR Sreejesh, the wall Indian hockey leaned on for the best part of two decades, is staying on as mentor of the junior men’s team for the Junior World Cup on home soil this December. Chennai and Madurai host it from 10 to 20 December, and India…
Ninety-seven editions. There aren’t many hockey tournaments anywhere that can say that. The All-India MCC-Murugappa Gold Cup was launched in Chennai on Wednesday, and it runs from Thursday 22 October to a floodlit final on 1 November at the Mayor Radhakrishnan Stadium in Egmore. Ten teams, two pools, and one very familiar name at the…
Most teams go home after a Champions Trophy. Malaysia are going to Perth. Head coach Sarjit Singh told the New Straits Times on Wednesday that the Speedy Tigers will stay on the road after the Asian Champions Trophy in Punjab and hold a 10-day training camp in Perth from 16 to 26 November. The point…
Australia aren’t sending a development side to India. They’re sending the Kookaburras. Hockey Australia named an 18-man squad on Wednesday for November’s India Centenary Tour, and the names at the top of the list tell you how seriously they’re taking it. Blake Govers is in. Tim Brand is in. Jeremy Hayward, Nathan Ephraums, Tom Craig…
Chile don’t come to Glasgow for the weather. They come because games like this are gold dust in a building year. Scotland’s senior women host Chile for two internationals at the Glasgow National Hockey Centre, on Sunday 25 and Monday 26 October. Back-to-back tests, same opponent, twenty-four hours apart. Coaches love that format because there’s…
The suits did their bit first. Now Doha belongs to the voters. The FIH Executive Board met in the Qatari capital on Wednesday, three days before the 50th Statutory Congress, and the headline out of the room is simple enough: the board has backed the new strategic framework that will now go in front of…
