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As the new year dawns, some of India's big big Indian hockey fraternity looks forward to the new times with renewed hope and optimism, samples below:

When India last hosted the Hockey World Cup at Bombay in 1982, the team went into the mega event as the reigning Olympic champions.

Jugjet Singh

THE New Year will start with an explosive weekend in Penang, as Malaysia Hockey League (MHL) Premier Division leaders Maybank and Kuala Lumpur Hockey Club (KLHC) lock horns at the Universiti Sains Malaysia grounds

By S. RAMAGURU

KUALA LUMPUR: National junior Mohamed Shafiq Mohamed Zain is set to play a major role as Maybank seek to consolidate their position at the top of the Malaysia Hockey League (MHL) Premier Division this weekend.

KUALA LUMPUR: A porous defence, over individualistic play and the slow arrival of their foreign players. But Nur Insafi remain confident that they can turn the corner in their Malaysia Hockey League (MHL) Premier Division matches in Penang this weekend.

Jonathan Fernandez

KUALA LUMPUR: Former national hockey captain S. Kuhan reckons that current national team custodian S. Kumar has what it takes to win the "Best Player" award which will be announced by the Asian Hockey Federation next year.

NEW DELHI: Hockey India on Thursday released the names of 38 probables for a training camp which started in Lucknow from December 29 for the preparations of next month's South Asian Games in Dhaka.

Host Ventures (women), and Notre Dame (men) will both be defending titles when the Eight annual Ventures Indoor Hockey Tournament flicks off on Monday at Woodbrook Youth Facility, from 6 pm. Winners of the men and women open categories will each collect US $1,000 while the second placed teams get US $500 and third place US $250. Ventures, which won the title for a second time last year, will come up against visiting GOA of Canada the runners-up two years ago, Notre Dame, Paragon and two former winners in Carib Magnolias and Stag Malvern. The six women’s team will compete in a round-robin series after which the top four will qualify for the semifinals.

Ravi Dhaliwal

Nabha, December 31 - The decks were cleared for the last four stage with BSF, EME, Punjab Police and Corps of Signals completing the line up in the 34th All India Liberals hockey tournament here today. EME entered the field as the favourites and quite efficiently lived up to their billing and won 2-0. EME slotted in goals through Suleiman Hereng and Biju Singh. In fact the early goal by Hereng from a penalty corner sequence rattled the ITBP.

By S. Kannan in New Delhi

WITH just four weeks to go for the Hockey India elections in the Capital, things are hotting up in a big way.

Biswajyoti Brahma

NEW DELHI: With less than a month to go for elections, Hockey India (HI) has been asked to talk and resolve issues with those states which are yet to yet to merge their men's and women's associations for affiliation to HI.

B Shrikant

Some of the units denied affiliation on the one-state-one-association rule by Hockey India (HI), are now willing to be recognised as associate members (members without voting right). Among them are Mumbai and Vidarbha.