Six days out, and opening day is the bit nobody’s really priced in yet. Three games in Jalandhar on Tuesday 27 October, and by about half nine that night the whole Asian Champions Trophy table will already have a shape. The running order It starts early. Malaysia v China at 1:00 pm IST (12:30 pm…
New Zealand aren’t treating November’s India series as a friendly run-out. They’ve picked a squad that says the opposite. The Black Sticks Men have named 20 players for the three-test Centenary Series at Lloyd Elsmore Park in Auckland on 19, 21 and 22 November, the series marking 100 years since India’s first hockey tour to…
Most players retire because their body gives up, or because a coach stops picking them. Pien Sanders is retiring because she won too much. The Netherlands defender announced on Tuesday that she’s done with international hockey, closing a career of almost ten years in orange. She isn’t done with the game. She’ll keep playing for…
Malaysia’s players were still catching their breath from beating Japan when their coach started talking about Pakistan. That’s how tight this tournament has become. The hosts came from behind twice to beat Japan 4-2 on Tuesday night, a win that put them level on six points with Pakistan at the top of the Sultan of…
Two wins, fourteen goals, top of the table. Pakistan’s coach is still not relaxing He’s right not to. Speaking to The News by phone on Monday, Pakistan’s coach — named by the paper as Sameer Hussain — said the team’s performance so far has been satisfactory and the players are gaining confidence, then spent most…
She waited three years for a first cap. She finished at a World Cup Heather McEwan’s Scotland career never took the easy road, so it’s fitting it ended on the biggest stage she ever played on. Scottish Hockey has announced McEwan’s retirement from international hockey: 48 caps, 11 goals, eight years, done. Her last tournament…
Free hockey. In Punjab. For a whole Asian Champions Trophy Hockey India isn’t charging a rupee for this one. Entry to every match of the men’s Hero Asian Champions Trophy Punjab 2026 is free, all 20 of them, from the league games in Jalandhar through to the medal matches in Mohali. The announcement came on…
China have scored five goals at this tournament. Three of them came in 12 wild minutes on day one, and since then it’s been nothing but damage. On Wednesday they run into Japan. That’s not the fixture you pick when you need a lifeline. How China got here Let’s be fair first. For 25 minutes…
Three goals in nine minutes. Malaysia just blew this tournament open Pakistan didn’t play on Tuesday. They might still have lost ground. Malaysia beat Japan 4-2 at Taman Daya with a late burst that properly hurt, three goals in nine minutes in the last quarter, and earlier in the day Canada beat China 3-2 to…
There’s a new World Cup coming, and South Africa’s schoolkids are in it. The first-ever FIH Youth Hockey5s World Cup runs in Ismailia, Egypt, this December, and South Africa have named the two U18 squads, ten boys and ten girls, who’ll play it. They earned the right the hard way. At the African qualifier in…
