Jalandhar: The trial to select the Punjab Senior Men Hockey Team to take in the for 12th Hockey India Senior Men National Hockey Championship will now be held on March 23.
According to Olympian Balwinder Singh Shammi, a member of Hockey Punjab's Ad-Hoc Committee, duly appointed by Hockey India, the Apex body for hockey in India, after the suspension of Hockey Punjab that the 12th Hockey India Senior Men National Hockey Championship, scheduled to be held at Bhopal (MP) from April 6 to 17, the trails to select the Punjab Hockey Team will now be held on March 23 at 10.00 am instead of March 19 at Astroturf Hockey Ground, Guru Nanak Dev University, Amritsar.
According to Shammi, the selection trial for the Punjab Junior team for participating in the 12th Hockey India National (Junior Men's) Hockey Championship, to be held from May 18 to 29 at Kovilpatti (Tamil Nadu) on March 19 has been canceled due to All India Inter University Hockey Championship. The new date will be announced later on. Meanwhile, Hockey India has appointed Olympian Hardeep Singh Neeta as a member of the selection committee.