Rahul Singh to lead

BANGALORE, Aug 15: Olympian Rahul Singh of Customs and Central Excise was on Saturday named captain of the India `A' team, which is sched...

BANGALORE, Aug 15: Olympian Rahul Singh of Customs and Central Excise was on Saturday named captain of the India `A’ team, which is scheduled to play in the four-nation Panasonic Cup hockey tournament at Hamburg (Germany) later this month. This was announced by the Indian Hockey Federation Secretary General K Jothikumaran, who was present here to watch the final day’s proceedings of the 15-day camp for the Hamburg-bound team.

Expressing confidence about a good performance at Hamburg, the coach of the team C R Kumar said: “The boys are bubbling with enthusiasm and their morale is very high. I just hope everything will remain in place when we play.”

The `A’ team played a practice match against the Centre of Excellence team and won by a handsome 9-0 margin. The team leaves for Delhi on Sunday en route to Hamburg on Monday.

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Balakrishnan, manager to Kuala Lumpur: Meanwhile, M S Balakrishnan was named as the manager of the Senior team, which will play in the Commonwealth Games next month. However, themanager of the Hamburg-bound team was still to be finalised.

Team for Hamburg

B C Poonacha, Jagadish Ponnappa, Cornelius D’Costa, Dinesh Nayak, Anurag Raghuvanshi, Sukhbir Singh Gill, Rahul Singh (captain), Radhakrishnan, Jagmohan Singh, Bimal Lakra, Navsher Singh, Virender Singh, Kamal Horo, Daljit Singh Dhillon, Ajinderpal Singh and Y S Rawat. Coach: C R Kumar. Manager: G Satyanarayana.

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