Ranchi more likely to host Girls's Asian Champions Trophy | Hockey

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Whereas India will host the lads’s Asian Champions Trophy for the primary time – in Chennai subsequent month, Ranchi is more likely to host the ladies’s model of the match in October-November.

The Indian Girls's Hockey workforce.(Hockey India)

“Ranchi will most probably host the Girls’s Asian Champions Trophy round October-November after the conclusion of the Asian Video games,” a Hockey India (HI) official mentioned on situation of anonymity.

The lads’s match can be held on the Mayor Radhakrishnan Stadium in Chennai from August 3 to 12 with defending champions South Korea, Malaysia, Pakistan, Japan and China that includes within the six-team occasion alongside the hosts. That is the primary time the continental match can be held within the nation. India have gained the occasion thrice (2011, 2016, 2018) out of six editions.

The Indian girls’s hockey workforce however has gained the occasion solely as soon as (2016) out of six editions. If Ranchi hosts the occasion, it can even be the primary time the ladies’s match can be held in India.

Visas for Pakistan workforce

At any time when a Pakistani participant or workforce visits India for a contest, visa is at all times a bone of rivalry. Nonetheless, HI officers mentioned that the Pakistan workforce can be travelling to Chennai for the match with none challenge.

"At any time when multi-national tournaments happen, be it the World Cups, Commonwealth Video games, Asian Video games, World Championships and so forth. the federal government provides visas to all collaborating nations," sports activities minister Anurag Thakur mentioned on Thursday whereas unveiling the Asian Champions Trophy at Main Dhyan Chand Nationwide Stadium.

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