Lagatar24 Desk
New Delhi, March 1: India will play against England in the FIH Women’s Hockey World Cup on July 3, two days after the main event begins in Spain and the Netherlands.
The International Hockey Federation (FIH) released the schedule on Tuesday. India, which is in Pool B, will play against China on July 5 and New Zealand on July 7.
In the event, which runs from July 1 to 17, India will play all of their pool matches at the Wagener Hockey Stadium in Amstelveen, Netherlands.
Sushila Chanu, halfback for the India women’s team, stated shortly after the schedule was released that the team will not be scared by any opponent.
“It does not matter against which opponents we start our campaign. We are not afraid as our mentality and our mindset is to take each game as it comes and try and win every match,” Chanu said in a virtual press conference.
“We have faced China recently in Muscat, Oman, in the Women’s Hockey Asia Cup 2022, and in the FIH Hockey Pro League 2021/22. And so it will be an advantage for us,” she added.
“We will be playing the FIH Hockey Pro League 2021/22 matches against England next month. We had last played New Zealand in 2020. So we know these teams quite well and we know how we have to prepare for the upcoming challenges,” she further added.
Notably, India played against Spain in the double-leg FIH Pro League at the Kalinga Stadium in Bhubaneswar over the past weekend, where they won the first match 2-1 before losing 3-4 in the next game.
