The Netherlands continues to be ranked as the best women's hockey team in the world with 3422.40 points, followed by Australia in second place with 2817.73 points and Argentina at third with 2766.90 points. The other two teams ranked above India are Belgium at fourth with 2608.77 points and
The Indian Women's Hockey Team lifted the Jharkhand Women's Asian Champions Trophy Ranchi 2023 on Sunday night in Ranchi after a stunning 4-0 victory over Japan in the final, claiming the prestigious title for the second time
Sangita Kumari (17'), Neha (46'), Lalremsiami (57') and Vandana Katariya (60') registered their names on the scoresheet to lead India to an incredible win and their first women's Asian Champions Trophy title after 2016, as per Olympics.com.
The 21-year-old led Maharashtra 1-2 with an aggregate time of 1:14.06s with her teammate Sanjana Joshi took the silver after last edition gold medallist Pragya Mohan of Gujarat, who had finished second, was disqualified for taking external help to set up her broken cycle pedal. This was Mohi
The Punjab shooter pipped her statemate Sift Kaur Samra for the top spot on the podium with a total of 458.9 against Samra's 458.2. Madhya Pradesh's Ashi Chouksey finished with the bronze medal with a cumulative total of 445.5.
India have been unbeaten so far at the ongoing Women's Asian Champions Trophy Ranchi 2023, winning their first game 7-1 against Thailand, winning 5-0 against Malaysia in their second match, and then beating China 2-1 in a thrilling encounter. After this match against Japan, India will be up
The general feeling is that despite the heavy loss to Japan in the first match, there were some things that went right. But those things could not be repeated on Sunday, in a game where there were more expectations from India to get a result. Obviously, the biggest blunders were made while d