Dragflick Newsdesk : Hockey India on Thursday named the 20-member Indian Junior Girls’s Hockey Staff for the much-awaited FIH Girls’s Junior World Cup 2021 which was postponed to 2022 because of the omicron-threat in South Africa. The match is scheduled to start on 1 April 2022 in Potchefstroom, South Africa.
The Indian group, grouped in pool D together with Germany, Malaysia and Wales, can be Captained by Salima Tete and Vice Captained by Ishika Chaudhary. They are going to kick-start their marketing campaign on 2 April 2022 with their first match towards Wales Junior Girls adopted by their match towards German Junior group on 3 April 2022 and they’ll play their final group-stage match on 5 April 2022 towards Malaysia.
The Quarter Finals can be held on 8 April 2022 whereas the Semi Finals is scheduled for 10 April 2022 and the Closing on 12 April 2022
The 20-member squad consists of goalkeepers Bichu Devi Kharibam, who lately made her Senior India debut on the FIH Hockey Professional League matches towards Germany, and Khushboo. The defenders embody Marina Lalramnghaki, Preeti, Priyanka, Ishika Chaudhary and Akshata Abaso Dekhale, who additionally made her Senior India debut towards Germany on the lately held FIH Hockey Professional League matches in Bhubaneswar.
Reet, Ajmina Kujur, Baljeet Kaur and Vaishnavi Vitthal Phalke will type the Indian midfield together with Salima Tete, Sharmila Devi, Lalremsiami — all three have been a part of the Indian Girls’s group that completed fourth within the Tokyo Olympics.
The forwardline will function Lalrindiki, Jiwan Kishori Toppo, Mumtaz Khan, Magnificence Dungdung, Deepika and Sangita Kumari, who additionally made her Senior debut lately.
Talking in regards to the group, Chief Coach Janneke Schopman mentioned,
“After an extended wait our Junior gamers are positively prepared to start out their Junior World Cup expertise. It was troublesome to finalize the choice as all gamers confirmed quite a lot of progress up to now months which is nice to see.”
“With a few gamers making their debut for the Senior Staff within the FIH Professional League lately, I consider that the added expertise could have a constructive affect. The group total has a pleasant combination of various expertise and abilities and am excited to see them taking up one of the best groups on this planet at U21 degree,” Schopman added.
The Indian Junior Girls’s Staff’s finest present in current occasions was on the FIH Junior Girls’s World Cup in 2013 after they completed on the rostrum with a Bronze Medal beating nemesis England in a shootout.
Indian Junior Girls will start their marketing campaign on 2 April 2022 towards Wales at 1230 hrs IST.
The matches can be reside on watch.hockey
Indian Junior Girls’s Staff:
1. Bichu Devi Kharibam
2. Khushboo
3. Marina Lalramnghaki
4. Preeti
5. Priyanka
6. Ishika Chaudhary (Vice Captain)
7. Akshata Abaso Dekhale
8. Vaishnavi Vitthal Phalke
9. Salima Tete (Captain)
10. Reet
11. Ajmina Kujur
12. Sharmila Devi
13. Lalremsiami
14. Baljeet Kaur
15. Lalrindiki
16. Jiwan Kishori Toppo
17. Mumtaz Khan
18. Magnificence Dungdung
19. Deepika
20. Sangita Kumari
Standbys
1. Madhuri Kindo
2. Neelam
3. Manju Chorsiya
4. Rutuja Dadaso Pisal
5. Annu
