The 2022 Women’s FIH Hockey World Cup will be the fifteenth version of the Women’s FIH Hockey World Cup, the big quadrennial showdown for ladies’ public field hockey groups coordinated by the International Hockey Federation. It will be held in Terrassa, Spain, and Amstelveen, the Netherlands, from 1 to 17 July 2022.
While India is grouped in Pool B with England, New Zealand, and China, World Champions Netherlands are grouped in Pool A with Germany, Ireland, and Chile. In pool C, hosts Spain will face-off against Argentina, Korea, and Canada, and in-pool D, Australia, Belgium, Japan, and South Africa will take on each other.
The Indian group has been gathered alongside England, New Zealand, and China in Pool B in the forthcoming FIH Women’s Hockey World Cup, the nation’s administering body for the game said on Thursday.
The competition will be held in Spain and Netherlands from 1 July.
The Indian group, as of late gotten its capability for the World Cup in the wake of completing third in the Asia Cup in Muscat.
Talking about rivalry in its pool, India goalkeeper Savita Punia said, “It is an extreme pool with England (world No.3), and New Zealand (world No.8) who are positioned above us and China can continuously spring a shock.
“Collectively, we have consistently accepted we want to zero in on ourselves and not what the rival can do. In any case, since we know who we play in the pool stage, we can design our arrangements appropriately, and we anticipate the test.”
Savita further underlined that the impending FIH Hockey Pro League matches will assist them with getting ready well ahead of the pack up to the renowned quadrennial occasion in July. “We will play England at home in the Pro League matches in April and we have effectively played China.
I think playing other top groups of the world like Belgium, Argentina and so on will help us in our arrangements for the World Cup,” she added.
The Indian ladies’ group accomplished a best-at any point fourth-place finish at the Tokyo Olympics last year.
The group additionally came to the best eight without precedent for the past release of the World Cup when it drew 1-1 with England, lost 0-1 to Ireland, which proceeded to play the last against best on the planet the Netherlands and attracted 1-1 against the USA the gathering stage.
Edited by: Mahi Gupta
Published by: Vishakha Verma
