Introduction of Hockey India league, Played in 2017

Federation of Indian Hockey Introduced Hockey India league in 2013 to boost the Hockey in the India and also to train new players which are emerging in India and to give them experience of playing hockey with the Hockey legends and Hockey greats from all around the world. Earlier Pakistan players were also playing in Hockey India league but after that they were not given opportunity to play in India due to tension between both countries. In 2017 it was played between 6 teams and the team detail is as follows:

Dabang Mumbai Team : Emmanuel Stockbroekx, Robbert Kemperman, Sander De Wijn, Sunil Yadav, Johan Bjorkman, Florian Fuchs, Krishan B Pathak, Gurjant Singh, Manpreet, Jeremy Hayward, Tyron Pereira, Harmanpreet Singh, Roshan Minz, David Harte, Affan Yousuf, C A Nikkin Thimmaiah, Gurmail Singh, Danish Mujtaba, S H Nilakanta Sharma, Kieran Grovers

 

Delhi Wave Riders Team :Niklas Wellen, Vikas Dahiya, Pardeep Singh, Manuel Brunet, Vincent Vanasch, Iain Lewers, Benjamin Stanzl, Santa Singh, Tristan White, Vickram Kanth, Mandeep Antil, Talwinder Singh, Surender Kumar, Parvinder Singh, Mandeep Singh, Harjeet Singh

 

Jay Pee Punjab Warriors Team: Mink Van Der Weerden, Robert Van Der Horst, Ajit Kumar Pandey, Hardik Singh, Baljit Singh Boparai, Jugraj Singh, Varun Kumar, Mark Gleghorne, Jasjit Singh Kular, Jacob Whetton, Tristan Clemons, Harbir Singh Sandhu, Sardar Singh, Satbir Singh, Mg Poonacha, Nithin Thimmaiah, S V Sunil, Matt Gohdes, Mark Knowles

 

Kaling Lancers Team: Nilam Sanjeep Xess, Billy Bakker, Tom Craig, Pardeep Mor, Abhinav Kumar Pandey, Matthew Dawson, Adam Dixon, Anand Lakra, Andrew Charter, Gurjinder Singh, Dipsan Tirkey, Lalit Kumar Upadhyay, Devindar Sunil Walmiki, Aran Zalewski, Malak Singh, Sk Uthappa, Dharamvir Singh, Amit Rohi Das, Glenn Turner, Moritz Fuerste

 

Ranchi Rays Team: Christopher Ruhr, Flynn Ogilvie, Sarvanjit Singh, Sumit Kumar, Akash Chikte, Tyler Lovell, Sumit, Simranjeet Singh, Barry Middleton, Trent Mitton, Mohammad Amir Khan, Ashley Jackson, Gurbaj Singh, Imran Khan, Khandangbam Kothajit Singh, Birendra Lakra, Manpreet Singh, Timothy Deavin, Vikramjit Singh, Fergus Kava

 

Uttar Pradesh Wizards Team: Florent Van Aubel, Arthur Van Doren, Seve Van Asse, Ajay Yadav, Shamsher Singh, P R Aiyappa, Suraj Karkera, Ajitesh Roy, Agustin Mazzilli, Vikas Vishnu Pillay, Ramandeep Singh, Gonzalo Peillat, Akashdeep Singh, Chinglensana Singh, Gurinder Singh, P.R. Sreejesh, Vr Raghunath, Sander Baart, Jolie Wouter, Eddie Ock

 

The Coal India hockey League was scheduled to be played from 21^st Jan, 2017 to 26^th Feb, 2017. The Hockey Matches under this Hockey India league were played in following cities:

1. Chandigarh.
2. Ranchi.
3. Delhi.
4. Bhubaneswar.
5. Mumbai.
6. Lucknow.

These Type of Tournaments helps in building the confidence of young players as they were given opportunity to play their game with the world greats of hockey and they can also learn many good things from them and also it will help them to be good players and ultimately will help a country to do good on hockey front and will make them proud and also will ultimately help the world hockey as it will be bring more energy, freshness and new emerging players to the world and also it will help players to take care and play well in Alien conditions as well. For Example if Netherlands or Australian Hockey Team visits India to play hockey match or series they were not able to get used to the temperature, weather and even the stadium atmosphere, with the help of these type of hockey leagues players get good idea of how to cope with different types of environment prevailing in the world at large and make hockey a more better game. Also I would like to explain Hockey is a game which is a game of very short duration of total 70 minutes in which both halves are of 35 Minutes each but Hockey India league has turned it into 4 quarters of 17.50 Minutes each.