FIH Ladies’s Nations Cup 2022: Savita leads 20-member Indian squad, Navjot Kaur returns

Hockey India on Wednesday named a 20-member squad for the inaugural FIH Ladies’s Nations Cup which can be held in Valencia, Spain between December 11-17.

The brand new match brings in a system of promotion-relegation because the champion workforce can be promoted to the FIH Hockey Ladies’s Professional League’s 2023-2024 season. India is grouped in pool B together with Canada, Japan and South Africa. The opposite groups within the occasion are Eire, Italy, Korea and Spain in pool A.

Goalkeeper Savita Punia will lead the aspect with Deep Grace Ekka being the vice-captain. Whereas skilled midfielder Navjot Kaur returns to the squad after lacking Commonwealth Video games in Birmingham after testing optimistic for COVID-19, younger ahead Magnificence Dungdung is ready to make her worldwide debut.

The Indian workforce gained bronze medal at CWG in Birmingham.

Chief coach Janneke Schopman stated, “I’m very proud of the efficiency of your entire taking part in group on this camp. Our degree is getting increased and the group could be very aggressive. It was troublesome to select 20 gamers however I consider this group can have a very good likelihood to carry out properly and present what we’ve got been engaged on.”