Last Updated: February 13, 2023, 18:18 IST
Birsa Munda International Hockey Stadium in Rourkela (HI/Twitter)
The 4 tournaments are the Junior Women National Championship, Junior Men National Championship, Sub-junior Women National Championship and Sub-junior Men National Championship
Four age-group nationwide hockey championships will likely be organised on the newly-built Birsa Munda Stadium this 12 months to present the home gamers a really feel of the state-of-the-art facility, which collectively hosted the boys’s World Cup together with the Kalinga Stadium in Bhubaneswar final month.
The 4 tournaments are the Junior Women National Championship (April 13-23), Junior Men National Championship (April 28-May 8), Sub-junior Women National Championship (May 13-23) and Sub-junior Men National Championship (May 28-June 7).
The Senior Men National Championship 2023, in the meantime, will likely be held in Madurai, Tamil Nadu from May 3 to 14.
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”We have taken a serious step by signing a multi-year contract with the FanCode who’ve over 50 million customers to point out all of the National Championship matches stay in India and the Indian sub-continent,” mentioned Hockey India president and former captain Dilip Tirkey.
”We additionally wish to introduce video referral on the home stage in order that gamers perceive the method early of their careers. Our goal is to supply these budding stars with the identical really feel of enjoying a global match in India,” he added.
From this 12 months, beginning with the Senior Women National Championship scheduled to start on February 15 in Kakinada, Andhra Pradesh, every venue can have a three-camera setup to seize and relay the motion stay and the matches will likely be held on the identical strains as worldwide matches with ”Player of The Match” award being given away for each match.
Hockey India secretary-general Bholanath Singh mentioned, ”This is the primary time HI has taken these sorts of measures to elevate the profile of the National Championships and provides it a uniform appear and feel.
”All the prices for these new initiatives will likely be borne by Hockey India and we is not going to burden our host member unit with these additional prices. The money award for ’Player of the Match’ will even be offered by the federation.” The umpires officiating the nationwide championships will likely be offered radios for on-field communication and the federation can be engaged on introducing video referral within the nationals.
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