NEW DELHI, November 19, 2012: As many as 24 Australian
hockey players, including all 16 members of the squad that won the bronze medal
in the Olympic Games at London earlier this year, are among the 91 overseas
players who have signed up for the Hockey India League Players’ Auction to be
held here in December in the run up to the six-team event in early 2013.
“A look at the list of players will assure the hockey
fraternity that it is in for an intensely competitive event from 5 January to 3
February 2013,” said Hockey India
Secretary-General and Hockey India
League Chairman Dr Narinder Batra. “We are
confident that the quality of hockey on view in the 33 matches will be very
high and exciting.
“We are happy that a vast majority of the world’s best
players from 12 countries besides over 150 Indians have made them available for
Hockey India League,” Dr Batra said. “It will be of particular interest
to hockey lovers here that, with 15 players in the Auction, Pakistan is second only to Australia in terms of numbers.
“We are also pleased that Olympic champion Germany and the Olympic silver medallist the Netherlands
will also be well represented in the auction,” Dr Batra said. “We are also
confident that more players from these nations and also from countries like England , Korea
and Canada
will find representation in the coming years.
The break-up (by nationality): Australia 24, Pakistan
15, Spain 10, South Africa, New Zealand and Netherlands 9 each, Malaysia 5,
Germany 4, Argentina 3, Belgium, France and Poland 1 each.
Press release
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