Published By: Ritayan Basu
Last Updated: April 26, 2023, 12:50 IST
India ladies’s hockey staff (IANS)
India ladies’s hockey staff will play Australia within the first three video games of the collection, adopted by two matches in opposition to Australia A
The Indian ladies’s hockey staff will tour Australia for a five-match collection, which is able to start on May 18 and can conclude on May 27. India will play Australia within the first three video games of the collection, adopted by two matches in opposition to Australia A.
All the matches can be performed at MATE Stadium in Adelaide.
India will play their opening match of the tour on the 18th May earlier than taking part in back-to-back video games on the twentieth and twenty first May. The guests will then compete in opposition to Australia A on the twenty fifth and twenty seventh May. The Australian ladies’s hockey staff is at the moment ranked third on this planet, whereas the Indian staff is ranked eighth.
The tour will function a warm-up occasion for the Hangzhou Asian Games, which is able to happen in September-October this 12 months.
Talking about the identical, Janneke Schopman, the Chief Coach of the Indian ladies’s hockey staff, stated, “Playing Australia in Australia will assist us assess the place we’re in comparison with the highest of girls’s hockey. More importantly, the collection can be essential for our preparations for the Asian Games in China as it should give us superb publicity whereas serving to us reckon the areas the place we have to make enhancements and modifications. So, it’s an important tour for us strategically.”
India will travel to Australia with a lot of confidence, having won the FIH Women’s Nations Cup in December 2022 by defeating host Spain in the Final. Furthermore, in January 2023, India toured South Africa, where they took on the hosts in four matches and registered comprehensive 5-1, 7-0, and 4-0 victories in the opening three games, while the fourth game ended in a 2-2 draw. However, during the same tour, the Indian side suffered a 1-3 loss at the hands of the Netherlands in their last three games.
In addition, the Indian women’s hockey team defeated three-time Olympic gold medallists Australia 1-0 in the Semi-Finals of the Tokyo Olympics in 2021. It was a historic victory for India as they were competing in only their third Olympics and qualified for the Quarter-Finals for the first time, while Australia were three-time gold medallists.
India also fought hard against Australia in the Commonwealth Games 2022 Semi-Final match in Birmingham, tying the score at 1-1 at the end of regulation time. However, Australia won the penalty shoot-out 3-0 to make it to the final.
Currently, the Indian women’s hockey team players are gearing up for the Australia Tour by putting in the hard yards to further fine-tune their strategies and combinations in the ongoing Senior Women’s National Coaching Camp at SAI, Bengaluru.
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