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Hockey World Cup: Post debacle, it's time to fix accountability

India hockey coach Graham Reid quits after poor World Cup show; analytical coach Clark, scientific adviser Pemberton resign tooBHUBANESWAR: Hiring and firing coaches is nothing new. In fact, that's the only constant in Indian hockey. Less than 24 hours after the conclusion of the FIH World Cup, Indian hockey's off-field magnum opus began on Monday with the 'resignation' of chief coach Graham Reid and his team including analytical coach Greg Clark and scientific advisor Mitchell David Pemberton. This curtails their contract which is until the 2024 Paris Olympics.Hockey India has said that they will serve a three-month notice period, which probably gives the former time to work out the new coaching team. That said, this knee-jerk reaction leaves the team in the lurch, especially with eight months to go for the Asian Games. While the cracks in the Indian think-tank started to appear last year, the cookie crumbled following the hosts' ninth-place finish at the World Cup.

WPL Auction 2023 Players List: Who got whom

It was a two-way battle between Mumbai Indians and Bangalore for Mandhana where the latter eventually outbid the Mumbai-based franchise. Mandhana's base price was Rs 50 lakh.WPL AUCTION LIVE UPDATESIndia's T20I skipper Harmanpreet Kaur became Mumbai's first buy of the day as she was bought for Rs 1.8 crore.

Time to ponder for India as Germany take home the Men's Hockey World Cup

It was a final to remember between Germany and Belgium. It could well be described as a boxing match, as the two teams never stopped throwing punches. Everytime the crowd felt one team was down for the count, like Germany looked like when trailing 0-2, it rose up to throw a jab.For the third pressure game in a row starting with the quarterfinals, Germany erased a two-goal deficit to become champions for the third time. First it was England, then Australia and finally Belgium. That's how World Cups are won. Cliched it may sound, but you have to beat the best to be the best.

Graham Reid steps down as Indian men's hockey team chief coach following World Cup debacle

India finished joint-ninth along with Argentina after failing to make it to the quarter-final stage.

India vs Australia: Mitchell Starc poised to return, but Scott Boland hopes for another go

Australia were hammered by an innings and 132 runs inside three days in Nagpur, but Boland, despite going wicketless in his first Test outside Australia, impressed with his tidy bowling on a slow track where spinners ruled the roost.Starc, who missed the opener with a finger injury, is set to be Australia's second quick in Delhi, while the tourists might field three spinners should all-rounder Cameron Green, also recovering from a finger injury, be fit to play.Boland told reporters he hoped his bowling in Nagpur "made the selectors' job a little tougher" when measuring him against Starc, "who is a gun in these conditions and has bowled really well in Sri Lanka and Pakistan".

Novak Djokovic on Indian Wells entry list but expected to miss out again

Novak Djokovic was named on the entry list for the upcoming Indian Wells tennis tournament on Wednesday, but he is expected to be barred from travelling to the United States to compete due to his ongoing refusal to be vaccinated against COVID-19.The Serbian world number one is a five-time champion at the ATP 1000 event but has not played a match on the hard courts in the Southern California desert since 2019.The United States has in place a vaccine requirement for foreign air travellers that is not expected to be lifted before main draw action kicks off on March 9.U.S. President Joe Biden's administration last month said it would lift COVID-19 emergency declarations on May 11, nearly three years after the United States imposed sweeping pandemic measures to curb the spread of the illness.

Asian Games will be hockey qualifying event for 2024 Olympics, confirms FIH president

The Asian Games, which were to be held last year in the Chinese city of Hangzhou but postponed due to worsening COVID-19 situation in the country, is scheduled to be held in the Chinese city from September 23 to October 8.Tayyab, a Pakistan-born Macau citizen, is currently a member of the Hangzhou Asian Games Coordination Committee which is headed by former Indian Olympic Association secretary general and current Olympic Council of Asia acting chief Randhir Singh."Asian Games is on, 100 per cent on. I happen to be a senior member of the Hangzhou Asian Games Coordination Committee and I am continuing in that role," Tayyab said at a press conference ahead of the FIH Men's World Cup final here.

Shubman Gill named ICC Men's Player of January

Gill enjoyed a record-breaking month in white-ball cricket in January. The free-scoring batter was a prolific source of runs throughout the month, most notably in the ODI format, scoring big against both Sri Lanka and New Zealand.With 567 runs during January, which included three century-plus scores, the 23-year-old Gill wowed fans with a lethal combination of graceful and attacking strokeplay.In a month which presented several highlights for Gill, his stand-out performance came in the form of a stunning double-hundred in the nail-biting victory over New Zealand in the series opener in Hyderabad.

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Hockey World Cup: Post debacle, it's time to fix accountability

WPL Auction 2023 Players List: Who got whom

Time to ponder for India as Germany take home the Men's Hockey World Cup

Graham Reid steps down as Indian men's hockey team chief coach following World Cup debacle

India vs Australia: Mitchell Starc poised to return, but Scott Boland hopes for another go

Novak Djokovic on Indian Wells entry list but expected to miss out again

Asian Games will be hockey qualifying event for 2024 Olympics, confirms FIH president

Shubman Gill named ICC Men's Player of January