Champions Trophy tournament August 2003

BSharma · Post by **BSharma** » Sat Aug 09, 2003 5:14 pm

India announced the names of the players who will go to Holland to play in the Champions Trophy in August 2003.

The team members are:

Players: Dhanraj Pillay (captain), Devesh Chauhan, Kamaldeep Singh, Dilip Tirkey, Kanwalpreet Singh, Jugraj Singh, Ignace Tirkey, Viren Rasq-uinha, Vikram Pillay, Bimal Lakra, VS Vinay, Baljit Singh Saini, Gagan Ajit Singh, Prabhjyot Singh, Tejbir Singh, Deepak Thakur, Deedar Singh, Baljit Singh Dhillon;

Chief coach: Mr Rajinder Singh; coach: Mr Baldev Singh; goalkeeping coach: Mr AB Subbaiah; Physical trainer: Mr Sampath Kumar

Best of luck to the Indian team. The Champions trophy is an important tournament for the Indian team.

Here is a link to the website of the Champions Trophy tournament.

http://www.championstrophy.nl/

BSharma · Post by **BSharma** » Sat Aug 09, 2003 5:21 pm

August 16, 2003 India versus Netherlands

August 17, 2003 India versus Germany

August 19, 2003 India versus Australia

August 20, 2003 India versus Argentina

August 22, 2003 India versus Pakistan

August 23 qnd 24, 2003 Matches for placement

A good news for hockey fans is that the Champions Trophy hockey tournament will be telecast live by Dubai-based TEN Sports in India and the Middle East.

Kumar · Post by **Kumar** » Mon Aug 11, 2003 4:36 am

Anything less than a top 2 finish in this champions trophy, all the previous wins means nothing. That too with a second string team from germany participating in this tournament, this is india's best chance to have her best showing in this tournament.

Go India. Go Dhanraj

david · Post by **david** » Mon Aug 11, 2003 9:19 am

A podium finish will be fine.

BSharma · Post by **BSharma** » Fri Aug 15, 2003 11:34 pm

I saw on Zee TV that the hockey matches of the Champions Trophy will be shown live at least in North America. Here is another link talking about it.

http://www.championstrophy.nl/default.a ... icleId=219

vishnureddy · Post by **vishnureddy** » Sat Aug 16, 2003 2:53 pm

India lost 3-4 to Holland after leading 3-0. 4 goals scored byHolland in last ten minutes .

Post by **jayakris** » Sat Aug 16, 2003 3:27 pm

In the last few days, they were talking too much about the tendency to let last minute goals in. I think sometimes our sportsmen think too much about non-existent ghosts and create the ghosts.

Jay

Kumar · Post by **Kumar** » Sun Aug 17, 2003 5:48 am

How the hell can they give up two goals in the last minute. this is ridiculous. This defeat is going to make or break this team. If our indian team can win from this position, this will give them great boost.

BSharma · Post by **BSharma** » Sun Aug 17, 2003 7:05 am

India scored goals at the 44th minute (Jugraj Singh), 51st minute (Deepak Thakur), and 62nd minute (Baljit Singh Dillon) to take a 3-0 lead. Netherlands then scored at the 63rd, 64th, 68th and 70th minutes to win 4-3. In a span of 7 minutes India allowed 4 goals by the opponent!

In another match Australia and Pakistan tied 4-4.

India next plays Germany on August 17th at 5 pm (Netherlands time). The match will be shown live on Zee TV in USA and also in India.

Post by **jayakris** » Sun Aug 17, 2003 1:47 pm

Don't forget that India too scored three goals in a span of 8 minutes..

Jay

Post by **Dhruv** » Sun Aug 17, 2003 4:38 pm

Today India beat Germany 3-2. They were down 0-1 and then 1-2 but came back to win the match.

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        IND 3                               GER  2

Gagan Ajit Singh (FG)  41:42        Benedikt Sperling (FG)  24:25
Prabjot Singh (FG)     61:15        Alexander Sahmel (PS)   46:11
Gagan Ajit Singh (FG)  67:58

Also coverage of the India-Netherlands match is here.

Post by **jayakris** » Sun Aug 17, 2003 5:37 pm

This was an important match for India to get their morale back up after that har-luck loss yesterday. Gritty show!

Jay

Kumar · Post by **Kumar** » Sun Aug 17, 2003 11:26 pm

Way to go India. whom are they playing next?

BSharma · Post by **BSharma** » Mon Aug 18, 2003 5:10 am

India will play Australia on August 19, 2003 at 5:00 pm (Netherlands time). The match will be followed by Netherlands versus Pakistan at 7:30 pm (local time).

On August 17, 2003 the match results were:

India defeated Germany 3-2
Pakistan defeated Argentina 6-5
Netherlands defeated Australia 5-3

suresh · Post by **suresh** » Mon Aug 18, 2003 5:57 am

I saw large portions of the India - Netherlands match which was telecast in India
on Ten Sports. On a positive note, this team is for real and has a good chance
of doing well in the tournament. However, there were a couple of negatives as well.
First, the behaviour of the Indian players, captain Dhanraj Pillay included, was downright disgusting.
While it is okay to protest against poor decisions, it is not
okay to badger the referee. For instance, the equaliser was a disputed one.
Television replays could not give a definite answer. But the referee was in position to make the call and the Indian players should accept it. Second, there was an overenthusiatic celebration after the third goal was scored. It was as if the Indian
players decided that the game was over and all they had to do was to wait for
time to run out. In such cases, it is useful to let sleeping giants(such as Netherlands) lie rather than get prodded into action.

All in all, a better attitude would have resulted in a win or atleast a draw. At 3-3
Dhanraj got a yellow card and then India was down to 10 men.
PS: I decided not to watch the second match vs Germany!

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