Hockey India names senior men's team core group ahead of Asian Champions Trophy

Hockey India on Sunday named a 39member senior mens core group for the national camp to be held from June 26 to July 19 at the Sports Authority of India SAI Centre in BengaluruAfter the camp the team will travel to Terrassa Spain where it will compete against England the Netherlands and the home side in the 100th Anniversary Spanish Hockey Federation International Tournament from July 25 to 30The fournation tournament will be followed by the Asian Champions Trophy in Chennai from August 3 in which India will face Korea Malaysia Pakistan Japan and China for the titleThe core group includes goalkeepers Krishan Bahadur Pathak PR Sreejesh Suraj Karkera Pawan Malik and Prashant Kumar Chauhan and defenders Harmanpreet Singh Jarmanpreet Singh Surender Kumar Varun Kumar Amit Rohidas Gurinder Singh Jugraj Singh Mandeep Mor Nilam Sanjeep Xess Sanjay Yashdeep Siwach Dipsan Tirkey and ManjeetThe midfielders called up for the camp include Manpreet Singh Hardik Singh Vivek Sagar Prasad Moirangthem Rabichandra Singh Shamsher Singh Nilakanta Sharma Rajkumar Pal Sumit Akashdeep Singh Gurjant Singh Mohd Raheel Mouseen and Maninder SinghS Karthi Mandeep Singh Lalit Kumar Upadhyay Abhishek Dilpreet Singh Sukhjeet Singh Simranjeet Singh Shilanand Lakra and Pawan Rajbhar were named among forwardsWe performed well in the FIH Mens Hockey Pro League 20222023 matches in Belgium and the Netherlands and now we hope to maintain some consistency especially with important tournaments set to take place later this year Indias chief coach Craig Fulton saidThe camp will be an opportunity for us to improve ourselves in certain areas and to work together as a unit once again With the Hero Asian Champions Trophy Chennai 2023 set to take place in August followed by the Asian Games 2023 in Hangzhou China it is an important camp for us to begin our preparations for the upcoming months and to display the kind of hockey we wish to playAlso Read Asian Champions Trophy Indian mens hockey team to face China in campaign openerIndias 39member core probable groupGoalkeepers Krishan Bahadur Pathak PR Sreejesh Suraj Karkera Pawan Malik Prashant Kumar ChauhanDefenders Jarmanpreet Singh Surender Kumar Harmanpreet Singh Varun Kumar Amit Rohidas Gurinder Singh Jugraj Singh Mandeep Mor Nilam Sanjeep Xess Sanjay Yashdeep Siwach Dipsan Tirkey ManjeetMidfielders Manpreet Singh Hardik Singh Vivek Sagar Prasad Moirangthem Rabichandra Singh Shamsher Singh Nilakanta Sharma Rajkumar Pal Sumit Akashdeep Singh Gurjant Singh Mohd Raheel Mouseen Maninder SinghForwards S Karthi Mandeep Singh Lalit Kumar Upadhyay Abhishek Dilpreet Singh Sukhjeet Singh Simranjeet Singh Shilanand Lakra Pawan RajbharThis story has been sourced from a third party syndicated feed agencies Midday accepts no responsibility or liability for its dependability trustworthiness reliability and data of the text Midday managementmiddaycom reserves the sole right to alter delete or remove without notice the content in its absolute discretion for any reason whatsoever