Indian women’s hockey team embarks on seven-match tour to play Netherlands and South Africa

Bangalore. The Indian women’s hockey team will travel to South Africa on a seven-match warm-up tour, which will also include three matches against world number one Netherlands, starting January 16. The Savita Punia-led side will play four matches against hosts South Africa in Cape Town. After this, from January 23, three matches will be in front of the Netherlands. Savita said, “We are thankful to Hockey India for organizing a lot of practice matches in the annual calendar as this year we focus on preparing well for the Asian Games and directly qualifying for the Paris Olympics. ,

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The Indian skipper feels that the tour will help the team to know and work on their weak areas ahead of the Asian Games. “The matches against South Africa and the world number one team Netherlands will help us improve our level of play and also find out the areas in which we are lacking.

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After a two-week camp in Bengaluru, we are well prepared for this round. Under Savita’s leadership, the team won a bronze medal in the Birmingham Commonwealth Games. He said, “The players are full of confidence after a good year for hockey in 2022 and we want to start the season with a good performance.”