Hockey News
At BDO Men’s Champions Challenge I , Salta, Argentina

Our team is declared for the 8 nation Champions challenge tournament to be played between 6-13 December in Salta, Argentina ... Overall good selection but surprisingly Prabodh Tirkey's name is missing from the squad ... Also interesting to note that Rajpal Singh replaces Sandeep Singh as Indian Captain for this important tournament, though on Canadian tour Basra used rotation policy for captaincy.

Our team will leave for Madrid on November 23 for a one-week training-cum-competition tour en-route to Salta.

Group A - India, China, New Zealand, Belgium
Group B - Pakistan, Argentina, South Africa, Canada

Match Schedule
Sunday - 06 Dec 2009
India vs New Zealand (16.05 hrs local time)

Tuesday - 08 Dec 2009
India vs China (12.05 hrs local time)

Thursday - 10 Dec 2009
India vs Belgium (16.05 hrs local time)

Saturday - 12 Dec 2009
Semi-finals

Sunday - 13 Dec 2009
Final

Indian Team -
Goalkeepers - Adrian D'Souza, PR Sreejesh
Defenders - Sardar Singh, Sandeep Singh, Gurbaj Singh, Bharat Ajitesh Roy, Dhananjay Mahadik, V Raghunath
Midfielders - Tushar Khandker, Arjun Halappa, Vikram Pillay, Roshan Minz, Danish Mujtaba, Vikas Sharma
Forwards - Rajpal Singh (Capt), Gurvinder Singh Chandi, Shivendra Singh, Deepak Thakur, Sarwanjit Singh, Mandeep Antil, Prabhjot Singh
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Squash News
At $41K Santiago Open 2009, Spain

[R1] Saurav Ghosal (IND,33) bt (6) Miguel Angel Rodriguez (COL,27) 11-5 11-8 11-6 (33m)

[QF] Saurav Ghosal (IND,33) l (2) Adrian Grant (ENG,11) 6-11 11-2 11-5 12-14 5-11 (59m)

Recently Saurav is giving consistent performance and I feel he is on verge of big break through ... This week also in ongoing Santiago Open he performed well ... In first round he defeated top-30 Colombian in straight game and then stretched WR #11 British player to 5th game, where Saurav was in chance of finishing match in 4th game.