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…
Ranchi Royals squandered a lead for a second straight game and went down 2-3 against Hyderabad Toofans in the Hockey India League at the Mayor Radhakrishnan Stadium in Chennai on Wednesday. The Royals put up an obstinate refusal in their circle, sweeping balls away upon the smallest of errors from Toofans forwards Arshdeep Singh, Shilanand…
HIL Governing Council (GC) needed another hat-trick from Kane Russell to overturn a deficit for a second-straight game and thrash Bengal Tigers 6-3 in the Hockey India League at the Mayor Radhakrishnan Stadium in Chennai on Wednesday. The New Zealander made three breaches (19’, 36’, 44’) from penalty corners, rescuing GC after it conceded first,…
While the JSW Soorma Hockey Club won’t be able to avoid the wooden spoon in the Women’s Hockey India League despite having received a second wind under interim coach Rani Rampal, its late resurgence may have done the SG Pipers a mighty service. For there’s a possibility that the Punjab and Haryana-based franchise may have…
Even as the spotlight shone on the players, she quietly redrew the blueprint of leadership. As the only woman head coach in the Hockey India League this season, Sofie Gierts has taken her team to the final not by chasing symbolism but by building structure. Rome was not built in a day. An all-woman backroom…
