Junior and senior men's hockey camps to commence in Bengaluru

 Bengaluru: Hockey India, the apex body for hockey in India yesterday announced the commencement of the coaching camps for the junior and senior men national team in Bengaluru. The camps are scheduled to be organized from 7^th March, 2016 – 8^th April, 2016 and 7^th March 2016 – 2^nd April, 2016 for both the senior and the junior team respectively at the SAI Centre, Bengaluru.

The coaching camps in Bengaluru will set the tone for the rest of the year for Indian hockey. The 4^th Coal India Hockey India League has seen the emergence of many new prospects for Indian hockey, both at the junior and senior level who have also been included in the camp. The importance of the camp increases even more considering that the Rio Olympics and the Junior World Cup are scheduled for later this year. A total of 32 and 33 players have been announced for the junior and senior core probables respectively.

The 33 member senior men’s team for the camp will consist of the following players:

GOALKEEPER	1.             P R Sreejesh 2.            Harjot Singh 3.            Akash Chikte
DEFENDERS	4.            Rupinder Pal Singh 5.            Pardeep Mor 6.            Jasjit Singh Kular 7.            Birender Lakra 8.            VR Raghunath 9.            Kothajit Singh 10.          Sumit 11.           Surender Kumar 12.           Gurjinder Singh 13.           Amit Gowda
MIDFIELDERS	14.          Danish Mujtaba 15.           Chinglensana Singh 16.          Manpreet Singh 17.           Sardar Singh 18.          Satbir Singh 19.          Dharamvir Singh 20.          SK Uthappa 21.           Devinder Walmiki 22.          Nithin Thimmaiah
FORWARDS	23.          Affan Yousuf 24.          Talwinder Singh 25.          Mandeep Singh 26.          SV Sunil 27.          Lalit Upadhyay 28.          Mohd. Amir Khan 29.          Akashdeep Singh 30.          Ramandeep Singh 31.           Nikkin Thimmaiah 32.          Malak Singh 33.          Yuvraj Walmiki

 The list of 32 junior men core probables for the camp includes:

GOALKEEPER	1.            Pankaj Kumar Rajak 2.            Suraj Karkera 3.            Kishan B. Pathak 4.            Vikas Dahiya
DEFENDERS	5.            Anand Lakra 6.            Dipsan Tirkey 7.            Gurinder Singh 8.            Harmanpreet Singh 9.            Varun Kumar 10.          Neelam Sanjeep Xess 11.           Pradeep Singh 12.           Hardik Singh 13.           Dharminder Singh
MIDFIELDERS	14.          Vikramjit Singh 15.          Ajay Yadav 16.          Baljeet Singh Boparai 17.           Manpreet 18.          Nilakanta Sharma 19.          Santa Singh 20.          Simranjeet Singh 21.           Harjeet Singh 22.          Manpreet Singh 23.          Kanwardilraj Singh 24.          Sunil 25.          Shamsher Singh
FORWARDS	26.          Gurjant Singh 27.          Sumit Kumar 28.          Ajit Kumar Pandey 29.          Armaan Qureshi 30.          Parvinder Singh 31.           Dilpreet Singh 32.          Mohammad Umar