In a debut, the Indian women’s hockey team reached the sixth position in the FIH World Hockey Rankings, achieving their best ever ranking. According to the news agency, with 2029.396 points, the Indian women’s hockey team is now placed above Spain in the world rankings, having recently lost both their FIH Hockey Pro League 2021/22 matches to Argentina and one each to Belgium and England. One lost. PTI report good.
Indian women’s hockey team They are currently third in the FIH Hockey Pro League 2021/22 table with 22 points from 8 games. India will face Belgium in a double-header in the away games on June 11, 2022 and June 12, 2022.
Indian women’s hockey head coach Janneke Schopman said, “As a team, we aim to improve and grow in women’s hockey and be a consistent contender. FIH World Rankings A good indicator that we are on the right track.”
“Also with the FIH Women’s Hockey Pro League and the FIH Women’s World Cup, things can change rapidly and so we have to focus on our performance,” she added.
Indian women’s hockey team captain Savita also expressed happiness over the achievement. “It is the result of all the hard work put in by our team over the past few months. We have worked together as a team against strong competition and achieved great results, and we are proud that we are a unit. I am growing and learning together.”
Meanwhile, the Indian men’s hockey team slipped to the fourth spot, but the women’s side moved up one place to sixth in the latest FIH world rankings released on Monday.
At the top, Australia (2842.258) and the Netherlands (3049.495) remained the world number one ranked teams in the men’s and women’s rankings. In the men’s category, the Netherlands (2465.707) followed India (2366.990) at the third spot on the basis of their impressive results in the FIH Pro League.
Germany (2308.156) remains fifth but England’s (2171.354) recent victories over France and South Africa helped them move up to sixth place ahead of Argentina (2147.179).
Further in the table, New Zealand (1798.247) is ranked eighth, followed by Spain (1779.462) and Malaysia (1704.115), who moved into the top 10 due to strong performances in the ongoing Hockey Asia Cup.
(with inputs from agencies)