Well-experienced Barry Anderson from England will be
the Tournament Director for the five team franchisee based event. The
61-year-old Englishman has vast experience in his respective field has attended
three FIH Champions Trophy, three FIH Champions Challenge and FIH World Cup
Qualifying Tournaments.
Anderson will be supported by five assistant tournament directors
– Claudius De Sale, Muneer Mohammad, Shakeel Qureshi (all from India), Ian
McKay (Scotland) and Howard Pollard (England).
Hockey India
Secretary General and Hero Hockey
India League Chairman Dr Narinder Batra said the
appointment of well experienced technical officials from different countries is
a major step towards ensuring that the league is technically well conducted.
“We have already appointed Steve Catton as Competitions
Director for the league who was also competitions director for the
European Hockey League” he said.
Five technical officers - Rakesh Bhatia, Feeroz Khan,
Rajendra Shelar, Ashutosh Verma and Faiyaz Qureshi (all from India ) - will conduct the matches at five cities
– Delhi , Mumbai, Jalandhar, Lucknow
and Ranchi .
Sonia Bathla, Davinder Bhatia, Kalvin d’Cruz, Nidhi Gupta,
Khalid Hussain, Michael Lal, Milind Narwekar, Harinder Sangha, Anjali Sharma
and Avinash Srivastava (all from India) are the part of 10-member judges panel
of the Hero Hockey India League 2013.
On the field, Michael Eilmer (Aut), Murray Grime (Aus),
Marcello Servetto (Esp), Gary Simmonds (RSA), Anil Kumar, Raghu Prasad,
Gurinder Sangha, Javed Shaikh, Ripudaman Sharma, Suresh Thakur Kumar, Pankaj
Tyagi and Harsha Vardhan (all from India ) are the 12 umpires who will
officiate 34 matches and keep their eyes on all players during the
action-packed League.
Lt Col Bibhu Nayak doctor for Senior Men National team has
appointed as the medical officer for the month-long tournament.
Press release
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