IHF and Hockey India at loggerheads on Team selection

One team, two selection committees

Hockey lovers were happy when KPS Gill led IHF was back again and competing against Hockey India to be the sole representative of administering Indian hockey. But, why now they are making fool out of themselves by forming a selection committee when they are not the position where they can select teams.

KPS Gill – wrong timing ?

And over and above that, they have named former international players Dilip Tirkey, Baljeet Singh Dhillon, Anil Aldrin, Sayyed Ali and Abdul Gafoor Khan.

The only question that I want to ask them is, why did they name selectors when they are not in power? And above that why did you name former players as selectors? They also might get into serious trouble.

Hockey India and Indian Hockey Federation are at loggerheads since the day of inception of Hockey India. But this war has let Indian hockey in trouble.

IHF could have waited for their day and then named the selectors. As such the selectors won’t be paid to do the job, so it is better that you wait for your time and then release a press statement or better still, term it as a late April Fool joke.

IHF also know that Hockey India is going for an election on 28th July, so it is not possible to make hasty decisions and create problems for the players also. It would have been much better had they talked about the people standing for elections and the rigging that is going to take place there by candidates (Narinder Batra and Vidya Stokes).

You could have talked about how well the nationals going on. They have reached the semi-final stages and they should have done a press release about that. But, they chose to make mockery of yourself by giving the names of the selectors.

What is done is done, but we hope that next time when they do something they will select the appropriate time to do the work, as means justifies the end.