The Hockey Bharat selectors have dropped 3 avid gamers—Akashdeep Singh, Karthi Selvam, and defender Jugraj Singh—from the victorious facet of the Asian Champions Trophy held in Chennai previous this pace. Drag-flicker Harmanpreet Singh and midfielder Hardik Singh will secure their roles as captain and vice-captain for the Asian Video games.
Jugraj Singh’s spot has been taken by way of Sanjay, moment Lalit Upadhyay and Abhishek change Akashdeep Singh and Karthi Selvam, respectively. The crew boasts two goalkeepers, veteran PR Sreejesh and Krishan Bahadur Pathak. Moreover, the crew contains six defenders, 5 midfielders, and as many forwards.
In the meantime, within the ladies’s crew, goalkeeper Savita Punia has been appointed because the captain for the Asian Video games. The squad sees skilled avid gamers Sushila Chanu Pukhrambam, Baljeet Kaur, and Jyoti Chhatri lacking out, in spite of being a part of the excursion of Germany and Spain closing pace.
The reputable announcement of each groups was once made all through a different send-off rite organised by way of Hockey Bharat in preparation for the Asian Video games.
Within the males’s pageant, Bharat unearths itself in Puddle A, along reigning Asian Video games champions Japan, arch-rivals Pakistan, neighbours Bangladesh, Singapore, and Uzbekistan. Puddle B options Korea, Malaysia, China, Oman, Thailand, and Indonesia.
For the ladies, the Indian crew, which connect the silver medal on the 2018 Asian Video games, is positioned in Puddle A, competing with Korea, Malaysia, Hong Kong, and Singapore. Protecting champions Japan, hosts China, Thailand, Kazakhstan, and Indonesia are grouped in Puddle B.
The Indian males’s crew will start their marketing campaign towards Uzbekistan on September 24, moment the ladies’s crew will face Singapore of their opening fit on September 27.
Hockey squads for Asian Video games:
Males’s crew: PR Sreejesh, Krishan Pathak, Varun Kumar, Amit Rohidas, Jarmanpreet Singh, Harmanpreet Singh (captain), Sanjay, Sumit, Nilakanta Sharma, Hardik Singh (vice-captain), Manpreet Singh, Vivek Sagar Prasad, Shamsher Singh, Abhishek, Gurjant Singh, Mandeep Singh, Sukhjeet Singh and Lalit Kumar Upadhyay.
Ladies’s crew: Savita (captain), Bichu Devi Kharibam, Deepika, Lalremsiami, Monika, Navneet Kaur, Neha, Nisha, Sonika, Udita, Ishika Chaudhary, Deep Grace Ekka (vice-captain), Vandana Katariya, Sangita Kumari, Vaishnavi Vittal Phalke, Nikki Pradhan, Sushila Chanu, Salima Tete.
(With inputs from PTI)
