: Hockey World Cup: For India captain Savita Punia, the goal is keeping her team above all else #IndiaNEWS Ask her if it has sunk in yet that she will be leading India at the FIH Hockey Women’s World

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Hockey World Cup: For India captain Savita Punia, the goal is keeping her team above all else #IndiaNEWS
Ask her if it has sunk in yet that she will be leading India at the FIH Hockey Women’s World Cup 2022, Savita Punia’s reaction is straightforward. Of course, it is a great honour and a responsibility she has to fulfil. But the most important part for her is that India are playing at the World Cup again, doing well as a team internationally and continuing to build on the goodwill accumulated over the recent years. Ask her to recall the day she stood like a force field between the goalposts against Australia on that famous day in Tokyo, where India kept a clean sheet against the goalscoring machine that was the Hockeyroos, her answer is once again about the team. Rightly so, because a penalty corner is not saved by a goalkeeper alone. The player on the post, the rusher who throws caution to the wind and darts forward towards a hurtling ball of fire to cover one angle... they all play a part. Ask her about her responsibilities as a leader, her response is to point that as a goalkeeper, she has been doing it anyway. Ask her about any personal conversations she had with Rani Rampal – who is absent for India due to...Read more

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