It was eventually Sofie Gierts’ coaching tour de force that saw SG Pipers pull the rabbit out of the hat. For she won the one penalty shootout that eventually mattered. In the Women’s Hockey India League final at the Marang Gomke Jaipal Singh Stadium here on Saturday, the game trickled down to the third penalty…
The Egmond half-marathon on Sunday will have at least one runner by the name of Sosha Benninga missing in action during the flag-off. On September 24, 2025, Sosha resigned to fate, having found no takers at the Hockey India League (or that’s what she initially thought). The Dutch forward had registered for the auction alongside…
Women’s Hockey India League is set to crown a new champion as SG Pipers faces Shrachi Bengal Tigers in the final of the second edition in Ranchi on Saturday. PREVIEW A summit clash between Shrachi Bengal Tigers and SG Pipers in the Women’s Hockey India League should have come with a statutory warning saying: ‘Not for the faint of heart’, for…
The Hockey India League’s Chennai leg was drawn to a close by a frantic, end-to-end contest that saw Tamil Nadu Dragons and SG Pipers match each other hit-for-hit and end up in a 4-4 deadlock at the end of regulation time. Dragons goalkeeper Princedeep Singh conceded four penalty strokes in the shootout – all four…
Wasteful conversions from both sides stretched the contest into a shootout where Soorma Hockey Club pipped Hyderabad Toofans 3-1 to get its first points in the Hockey India League at the Mayor Radhakrishnan Stadium in Chennai on Friday. But after a lack of finishing plagued them in a 1-1 draw in regulation time, errors crept…
A summit clash between Shrachi Bengal Tigers and SG Pipers in the Women’s Hockey India League should have come with a statutory warning saying: ‘Not for the faint of heart’, for on each of the last two occasions these sides have met, a sudden death was required to separate them. Obviously, the Tigers coach Deepak…
A final-quarter flurry of goals provided a contrasting end to a match strewn with misses as Kalinga Lancers defeated Bengal Tigers 2-1 in the Hockey India League at the Mayor Radhakrishnan Stadium in Chennai on Thursday. After umpteen wastes at both ends, Lancers took the three points courtesy of strikes from Alexander Hendrickx (52’) and…
SG Pipers seemed to have momentarily lost the plot just ahead of the big final as it was humbled by the already-eliminated Ranchi Royals 2-5 in the highest-scoring encounter of the 2025-26 edition of the Women’s Hockey India League at the Marang Gomke Jaipal Singh AstroTurf Stadium in Ranchi. Neha Goyal may have earlier lamented…
Gurjot Singh was going through his usual regimen at the junior training camp at the Sports Authority of India centre in Bengaluru when he was caught by surprise. At this time, he was in the reckoning for the FIH Hockey Men’s Junior World Cup 2025, which was still more than 12 months away, and had…
There are days when sports careers are shaped by years of hard work, and others when everything changes in a fraction of a second. Sam Ward doesn’t dress it up. He doesn’t soften the moment that changed everything. He calls it exactly what it was. “It was pretty tough at the time. You’re dealt a…
