Hockey India League 2024 Auction LIVE: How much money does each franchise have left in its purse?

The Hockey India League (HIL) men’s auction for the 2024-25 season got underway in Delhi on Sunday, October 13. After a seven-year hiatus, HIL 2024-25 returned with an expanded format and will feature eight men’s and six women’s teams, becoming the first professional league to have both men and women playing concurrently.  Over 1,000 players…

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Indian sports wrap, October 11: Harjinder Kaur sets new National Records at weightlifting nationals

WEIGHTLIFTING Harjinder Kaur sets news National Records at National weightlifting championships Punjab’s Harjinder Kaur created three new national records – one in snatch (98kg) , one in clean & jerk (125kg) and one in total (223kg) – bettering her own old records of 96kg, 124kg and 220kg, respectively at the National Weightlifting Championships in Nagrota…

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IND vs GER, bilateral hockey 2024: Major Dhyan Chand Stadium gets facelift ahead of India-Germany Test series

Once it chronicled Mir Ranjan Negi’s epic fall from grace, Dhanraj Pillay’s artistic spadework and Sandeep Singh’s muscular drag-flicks, but through the past decade, Major Dhyan Chand National Stadium’s concrete pillars and ill-maintained dusty bucket seats perhaps were resigned to the fact that its glory days as epicentre of Indian hockey were a thing of…

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