World Series Hockey (WSH)

[jayakris]

Starting a thread, as suggested by ssp in another thread. May move in some earlier posts above, later.

Over the last couple of days, most top players have written to HI (not to WSH folks, it seems) that they will skip WSH and go to the National team camp

Six top players not to play in WSH, Nov 30, The Hindu
Those were Bharat Chettri, Tushar Khandekar, Yuvraj Walmiki, P.R. Sreejesh, Sandeep Singh and Sardar Singh.

Six more pull out from WSH, Dec 2, The Hindu
Those are Rupinder Pal Singh, Danish Mujtaba, K. Chinglensana Singh, Manjeet Kullu, Birendra Lakra and Manpreet Singh.

Looks like most big names in the national team have decided to skip this in favor of the Olympics qualies. Serves WSH right for even suggesting that national players should be playing this when Olympics qualies are right there in India. Now, had the lowlifes in HI could work with the lowlifes in IHF and WSH, it woldn't have come to this. What a joke these guys. But I am glad that the players did the right thing (the way it looks for now). But we will wait and see.

Jay

[Ankit Desai]

WSH teams composition announed <- Thanks to stick2Hockey.com

Team : Bhopal
Captain : Sardar Singh - Midfielder
Coach : V Baskaran
Team Composition:
Sr no Name Position
1 Waseem Ahmad Midfielder
2 Raghunath VR Defender
3 Baljeet Singh Goalkeeper
4 Shivendra Singh Forward
5 Lalit Kumar Upadhyay Forward
6 Tushar Khandker Forward
7 Sameer Dad Forward
8 Casey Henwood Midfielder
9 Harmanpreet Singh Goalkeeper
10 Alfonso Pombo Midfielder
11 N Senthil Kumar Forward
12 Baljinder Singh Defender
13 Girish Pimpale Midfielder
14 Mohd. Sahir Midfielder
15 David Seddon Midfielder
16 Armaan Quereshi Forward
17 Harbir Singh Defender
18 Cheeyanna AB Midfielder
19 Andrew Eversden Defender
20 Shailendra Singh Defender
21 Kangujam Suresh Singh Defender


Team : Chandigarh
Captain : Rehan Butt - Forward
Coach : Harendra Singh
Team Composition:
Sr no Name Position
1 PR Sreejesh Goalkeeper
2 Robert Green Midfielder
3 Gurjinder Singh Defender
4 Sarvanjit Singh Forward
5 Ramandeep Singh Forward
6 Mathew Phillips Defender
7 Preetinder Singh Sidhu Midfielder
8 Bharat Chikara Forward
9 Mohammed Amir Forward
10 Jiwa Mohan Midfielder
11 Ajitesh Roy Midfielder
12 Birender Lakra Midfielder
13 Sukhwinder Singh Gabbar Forward
14 Lloyd Stephenson Midfielder
15 Sher Singh Forward
16 Barkat Singh Midfielder
17 PT Rao Goalkeeper
18 Pramod Kumar Forward
19 Jasjit Singh Kular Forward
20 Sandeep Singh Midfielder
21 Ranjodh Singh Forward
22 Sanawar Ali Forward


Team : Chennai
Captain : Brent Livermore – Midfielder
Coach : Jose Brasa
Team Composition:
Sr no Name Position
1 Bharat Chetri Goalkeeper
2 Dhananjay Mahadik Defender
3 Roderik Huber Forward
4 S Arumugam Forward
5 Vikas Sharma Midfielder
6 Vikram Pillay Midfielder
7 Veerasamy Raja Forward
8 Danish Mujtaba Forward
9 Amit Prabhakar Defender
10 Dharamvir Singh Forward
11 Benedikt Sperling Forward
12 Peter Kelly Forward
13 Syed ImranWarsi Defender
14 Adam Sinclair Forward
15 Joseph Reardon Midfielder
16 Chintakunta Santosh Kumar Defender
17 Samir Baxla Defender
18 Amardeep Ekka Midfielder
19 Gauravjeet Singh Defender
20 Rafeeq S M Midfielder
21 Sandeep Antil Forward


Team : Delhi
Captain : Lucas Vila - Forward
Coach : Roelant Oltmans
Team Composition:
Sr no Name Position
1 Rupinder Pal Singh Defender
2 Kamaldeep Singh Goalkeeper
3 Shakeel Abbasi Forward
4 Manoj Antil Forward
5 K Victo Singh Forward
6 Gurbaj Singh Midfielder
7 Jaswinder Singh Defender
8 Patrick Harris Midfielder
9 Keisham Roshan Defender
10 Rodrigo Vila Forward
11 Vickram Kanth Midfielder
12 Manjeet Kullu Defender
13 Rajpal Singh Forward
14 Bruno Lugun Forward
15 Matias Minz Midfielder
16 Lovedeep Singh Defender
17 Mrinal Choubey Goalkeeper
18 Vivek Gupta Midfielder
19 CS Khalko Defender
20 Anand Tirkey Midfielder
21 Martijn de Jager Midfielder


Team : Karnataka
Captain : Arjun Halappa - Midfielder
Coach : Jude Felix
Team Composition:
Sr no Name Position
1 Devesh Chauhan Goalkeeper
2 Sandeep Singh Defender
3 Dhanraj Pillai Forward
4 S K Uthappa Midfielder
5 Inocent Kullu Defender
6 Ignace Tirkey Midfielder
7 Nitin Thimmaiah Forward
8 Eli Matheson Forward
9 Jagdeep Dayal Goalkeeper
10 Zeeshan Ashraf Defender
11 Ravipal Singh Midfielder
12 Adnan Maqsood Midfielder
13 Jarnail Singh Forward
14 Amar Aiyamma Forward
15 Nitin Kumar Midfielder
16 Sandeep Singh Defender
17 Abhishek Singh Defender
18 Tommy Hammond Midfielder
19 Gursev Singh Midfielder
20 Arjun Antil Forward
21 Vinayak Bijwad Forward
22 Nagalingaswamy B Midfielder

Team : Mumbai
Captain : Adrian D’Souza - Goalkeeper
Coach : Andrew Meredith
Team Composition:
Sr no Name Position
1 Pedro Ibarra Forward
2 Melchior Looijen Defender
3 Sung Min Midfielder
4 Viren Rasquinha Midfielder
5 Pradhan Somanna Forward
6 Prabodh Tirkey Midfielder
7 Yuvraj Walmiki Forward
8 S V Sunil Forward
9 Devender Walmiki Midfielder
10 Juan Martin Lopez Forward
11 Connor Grimes Forward
12 Rajesh Kumar Midfielder
13 GM Hariprasad Forward
14 Phelie Maguire Midfielder
15 Anup Antony Forward
16 Jay Karan Forward
17 Sudhir Dixit Goalkeeper
18 Joga Singh Forward
19 Aijub Ekka Forward
20 Shashi Topno Forward
21 Conroy Remedios Midfielder
22 Errol D’Silva Midfielder


Team : Pune
Captain : Rodrigo Garza - Defender
Coach : Gundeep Singh
Team Composition:
Sr no Name Position
1 Diwakar Ram Defender
2 Gurvinder Singh Chandi Forward
3 Gurpreet Singh Guri Goalkeeper
4 Vikas Pillay Midfielder
5 K Chinglensena Singh Forward
6 Facundo Callioni Forward
7 Vikram Yadav Midfielder
8 Bikash Toppo Forward
9 Nikkin Thimmaiah Forward
10 Tyron Pereira Midfielder
11 Roshan Minz Forward
12 Birendra Lakra Forward
13 Sunil Yadav Defender
14 Vinod Nair Defender
15 Gurpreet Singh Midfielder
16 Amit Gowda Midfielder
17 Alvin Alexander Midfielder
18 Damandeep Singh Forward
19 Sunny Samuel Goalkeeper
20 Alden D’Souza Forward
21 Poonacha M G Forward

Team : Punjab
Captain : Prabhjot Singh - Forward
Coach : Rajinder Singh
Team Composition:
Sr no Name Position
1 Maik Gunther Defender
2 Harpal Singh Defender
3 Dinesh Ekka Goalkeeper
4 Prabhdeep Singh Defender
5 Akashdeep Singh Forward
6 V S Vinaya Midfielder
7 Deepak Thakur Forward
8 Mathias Vila Midfielder
9 Gagandeep Singh Forward
10 Steven Faaij Forward
11 Andreu Enrich Midfielder
12 Karamjit Singh Forward
13 Mandeep Antil Forward
14 Tariq Aziz Forward
15 Inderjit Singh Forward
16 Gurjant Singh Forward
17 William Xalco Defender
18 Chris Seddon Forward
19 Sukhjeet Singh Goalkeeper
20 Imran Khan Midfielder
21 Didar Singh Forward
22 Prabhdeep Singh Forward

-Ankit

[Ankit Desai]

National Players pull out of WSH are.< Thanks to stick2Hockey.com

Rupinder Pal Singh, Danish Mujtaba, Manjit Kullu, Brendra Lakra, Chingalesna Singh and Manpreet Singh.

Sandeep Singh, Bharat Chetri, Sardar Singh, PR Sreeesh and Yuvraj Walmiki pulled out, quoting a letter which their signature one by one.

WSH: HI claims six more players pull out

It seems now the players at Randburg in South Africa, where the Champions Challenge tournament is going on, is more focused about World Series Hockey than the event on hand.

We hope to get another set of six which will complete the whole team, next. It is apparent some section in the coaching group is enthusiastically engineering things other than technical

-Ankit

[jayakris]

Tushar also pulled out of WSH, Ankit. I had posted the Hindu articles above on the 12 who have written so far to HI. I don't like what stick2hockey article's tone. What are the players supposed to do? When they decided to skip money (may be because they were threatened by HI and Nobbs) and chose to play for the national team, how can we blame them?

Jay

[Ankit Desai]

Yes. Tushar too, I missed him. WSH is catch 44 situation. Players are always scapegoats. I am wary about time and length of national camp. I wish WSH could be after OQ.

-Ankit

[jaydeep]

Pak hockey in crisis, 8 players leave for India league

[Mugundan]

WSH has been postponed to Feb-end. Meanwhile, BCCI has terminated its contract with Nimbus and says it is cashing a bank guarantee of Rs 2000 crore!

[PKBasu]

The cavalier manner in which Indian organizers of such supposedly world-class events simply postpone/cancel them boggles the mind. Players from all over the world (including Pakistan, whose players risked their careers to sign up) have been training in India for several weeks (if not more) for the event. TV coverage is geared, advertising costs have been expended by all those involved, and then without any warning at all, the WSH is postponed by a clean 3 months! Breath-takingly irresponsible.

[sameerph]

The postponement is more due to main Indian players not being available at this point of time due to olympic qualifiers & therefore the danger of WSH losing it's value. However, it could have been planned in much better way.

This is an article in Hindu from S. Thaygrajan on this -

WSH: A dream or a reality?

[Ankit Desai]

India XI vs World XI to promote WSH

"The entire technical team of WSH will be present in Chandigarh to ensure the smooth conduct of the match. Fans will also witness the fast paced thrill of a match played across four quarters instead of two halves, exactly as they can expect to watch when the tournament begins on February 29th, 2012."

The match is scheduled to commence at 6:00 pm at the sector 42 stadium.

-Ankit

[Sandeep]

So Pakistan doesn't want its players to take part in the WSH! I don't know why does sports bodies come up with such strange decisions. WSH can only improve the skills of
Pakistani players and it will do no harm to them. Absolutely stupid, can never understand their egos! http://bit.ly/v5P7GM

[Ankit Desai]

Schedule


Schedule

Feb 29: 8:30 pm Chandigarh Comets v Bhopal Badshahs, Chandigarh
Mar 1: 7:00 pm Sher-E-Punjab v Chennai Cheetahs, Jalandhar; 9:00 pm Mumbai Marines v Pune Strykers, Mumbai;
Mar 2: 7:00 pm Delhi Wizards v Karnataka Lions, Delhi; 9:00 pm Mumbai Marines v Bhopal Badshahs, Mumbai
Mar 3: 5:00 pm Sher-E-Punjab v Karnataka Lions, Jalandhar; 7:00 pm Chandigarh Comets v Chennai Cheetahs, Chandigarh; 9:00 pm Delhi Wizards v Pune Strykers, Delhi
Mar 4: 7:00 pm Sher-E-Punjab v Pune Strykers, Jalandhar; 9:00 pm Mumbai Marines v Chandigarh Comets, Mumbai
Mar 5: 7:00 pm Karnataka Lions v Bhopal Badshahs, Bangalore; 9:00 pm Delhi Wizards v Chennai Cheetahs, Delhi
Mar 6: 7:00 pm Chennai Cheetahs v Mumbai Marines, Chennai; 9:00 pm Karnataka Lions v Chandigarh Comets, Bangalore
Mar 7: 7:00 pm Sher-E-Punjab v Delhi Wizards, Jalandhar; 9:00 pm Pune Strykers v Bhopal Badshahs, Pune
Mar 8: 7:00 pm Chandigarh Comets v Sher-E-Punjab, Chandigarh; 9:00 pm Karnataka Lions v Mumbai Marines, Bangalore
Mar 9: 7:00 pm Chennai Cheetahs v Pune Strykers, Chennai; 9:00 pm Bhopal Badshahs v Delhi Wizards, Bhopal
Mar 10: 7:00 pm Chennai Cheetahs v Karnataka Lions, Chennai; 9:00 pm Bhopal Badshahs v Sher-E-Punjab, Bhopal
Mar 11: 7:00 pm Pune Strykers v Chandigarh Comets, Pune; 9:00 pm Mumbai Marines v Delhi Wizards, Mumbai
Mar 12: 7:00 pm Pune Strykers v Karnataka Lions, Pune; 9:00 pm Bhopal Badshahs v Chennai Cheetahs, Bhopal
Mar 14: 7:00 pm Mumbai Marines v Sher-E-Punjab, Mumbai; 9:00 pm Delhi Wizards v Chandigarh Comets, Delhi.
Mar 15: 7:00 pm Pune Strykers v Chennai Cheetahs, Pune; 9:00 pm Delhi Wizards v Bhopal Badshahs, Delhi.
Mar 16: 7:00 pm Sher-E-Punjab v Chandigarh Comets, Jalandhar; 9:00 pm Mumbai Marines v Karnataka Lions, Mumbai.
Mar 17: 7:00 pm Sher-E-Punjab v Bhopal Badshahs, Jalandhar; 9:00 pm Karnataka Lions v Chennai Cheetahs, Bangalore.
Mar 19: 7:00 pm Chandigarh Comets v Pune Strykers, Chandigarh; 9:00 pm Delhi Wizards v Mumbai Marines, Delhi.
Mar 20: 7:00 pm Chandigarh Comets v Delhi Wizards, Chandigarh; 9:00 pm Chennai Cheetahs v Bhopal Badshahs, Chennai.
Mar 21: 7:00 pm Sher-E-Punjab v Mumbai Marines, Jalandhar; 9:00 pm Karnataka Lions v Pune Strykers, Bangalore.
Mar 23: 7:00 pm Pune Strykers v Mumbai Marines, Pune; 9:00 pm Karnataka Lions v Sher-E-Punjab, Bangalore.
Mar 24: 7:00 pm Bhopal Badshahs v Chandigarh Comets, Bhopal 9:00 pm Karnataka Lions v Delhi Wizards, Bangalore.
Mar 25: 7:00 pm Chennai Cheetahs v Sher-E-Punjab, Chennai; 9:00 pm Bhopal Badshahs v Mumbai Marines, Bhopal.
Mar 26: 7:00 pm Chennai Cheetahs v Chandigarh Comets, Chennai; 9:00 pm Pune Strykers v Delhi Wizards, Pune.
Mar 27: 7:00 pm Pune Strykers v Sher-E-Punjab, Pune; 9:00 pm Bhopal Badshahs v Karnataka Lions, Bhopal.
Mar 28: 7:00 pm Chandigarh Comets v Mumbai Marines, Chandigarh; 9:00 pm Chennai Cheetahs v Delhi Wizards, Chennai.
Mar 29: 7:00 pm Chandigarh Comets v Karnataka Lions, Chandigarh; 9:00 pm Bhopal Badshahs v Pune Strykers, Bhopal.
Mar 30: 7:00 pm Delhi Wizards v Sher-E-Punjab, Delhi; 9:00 pm Mumbai Marines v Chennai Cheetahs, Mumbai.
Apr 1: 6:00 pm Semi Final 1 (Venue to be confirmed); 8:30 pm Semi Final 2 (Venue to be confirmed)
Apr 2: 8:00 pm Final (Venue to be confirmed).


-Ankit

[prasen9]

Nothing in the East and Northeast!

[Ankit Desai]

HC paves way for players` participation in World Series Hockey

We are of the opinion that the matter can be placed before the the International Hockey Federation (FIH) in the same prospective as narrated by us in the judgement

The problem can be resolved once it is ensured that the domestic event, to be organised by IHF with Nimubus Sports as sponsers, do not come in conflict with the training schedule prescribed for the international events ...,"

the bench said.

-Ankit

[Ankit Desai]

WSH live stream link

Enjoy !

-Ankit