16th Sultan Azlan Shah Cup Hockey Tournament

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PAK Pakistan hockey team leaves for Malaysia today

Staff Report
LAHORE: Led by forward Rehan Butt, the Pakistan hockey team will leave for Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia on Tuesday (today) to participate in the 16th Sultan Azlan Shah Cup Hockey Tournament commencing there from May 5. Pakistan will take on hosts Malaysia in their opening encounter at Ipoh where the tournament will be played. The final will be held on May 13. The Pakistan squad comprises 18 players and six officials. Tournament’s eight nations are divided in two pools. Pool A comprises Argentina, Australia, China and India while Pool B includes Malaysia, Pakistan, Canada and South Korea.

Squad:

Salman Akbar, Ehsanullah Khan, Syed Imran Warsi, Imran Khan, Sajjad Anwar,Rehan Butt (captain), Muhammad Amin, Akhtar Ali, Muhammad Shabbir, Nasir Ahmed, Zeeshan Ashraf (vice-captain), Muhammad Imran, Adnan Maqsood, Rana Muhammad Asif, Ishtiaq Ahmed, Tariq Aziz, Waqas Ashraf and Muhammad Zubair. Officials: Islahuddin Siddiqui (manager-chief coach), Manzoor-ul-Hassan (coach), Qazi Masood-ur-Rauf (associate manager), Faiz-ur-Rehman (physiotherapist), Nadeem Lodhi (video analyst), Rana Muhammad Liaqat (umpire).

Schedule:

Saturday May 5: Australia vs India, Korea vs Canada, Malaysia vs Pakistan

Sunday May 6: Argentina vs Australia, India vs China, Canada vs Malaysia

Monday May 7: China vs Argentina,** Korea vs Pakistan**

Tuesday May 8: Pakistan vs Canada, Malysia vs Korea

Wednesday May 9: Australia vs China, India vs Argentina

Thursday May 10: 3rd Pool A vs 4th Pool B, 3rd Pool B vs 4th Pool A

Friday May 11: Semi-finals

Saturday May 12: Classification matches for 7-8 and 5-6

Sunday May 13: Classification match for 3-4 and final.

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[fair_balance]

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Final : AUS vs Kora

Aussie win again

[James_Bhaand]

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Pakistan Malaysia match drawn

**Hockey: Sultan Azlan Shah Cup results: **IPOH, Malaysia, May 5 (AFP) - Sultan Azlan Shah Cup field hockey began here on Saturday. Pakistan drew the opener against host Malaysia 2-2. The results were: Group A--Australia 1 (Edward Ockenden, 50); India 0. Group B-- South Korea 1 (Jeong Yun Sang, 44)Canada 0; Malaysia 2 (Zulkifli Rejab 7, Ismail Abu 29) Pakistan 2 ( Ehsan 13, Imran Warsi 42). (Posted @ 19:54 PST)

[James_Bhaand]

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@fair_balance

Final : AUS vs Kora

Aussie win again

Argentina beat Australia

[Mostar95]

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Pakistan hockey is destined to decline further and further. Currently they do not hold any titile except the petty SAF Games Gold Medal. With decreaseing number of players every year, we can not expect Pakistan to win any tournamnet even this invitation tournament at Ipoh.

[Umer]

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Is the electricity infrastructure in Malaysia that bad? I think the abandonment of the Pakistan-Korea match is quite an embarrasment for the organizers. If something like that happens in Karachi, I wouldn’t be surprised, but Kuala Lumpur?

[Mostar95]

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So as my "kali zuban" said earlier, Pakistan failed to make semi final and lost easily 4-2 to Korea when that floodlight stopped match was finished today. So sad!

[lakkis25]

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@Mostar95

So as my "kali zuban" said earlier, Pakistan failed to make semi final and lost easily 4-2 to Korea when that floodlight stopped match was finished today. So sad!

India is in Semi final

[Mostar95]

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@lakkis25

India is in Semi final

Yes so good for India! They are going to finish ahead of Pakistan in an interconitnental tournament after so many years. They had done it in Asian games and Asia cup. They were always behind Pakistan in CT, WC and Olympics. Their junior team however has been doing quite well at the world cup.

[Umer]

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@Mostar95

So as my "kali zuban" said earlier, Pakistan failed to make semi final and lost easily 4-2 to Korea when that floodlight stopped match was finished today. So sad!

Embarrasing. I simply have no other word for it.

[Mostar95]

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Pakistan hockey will never emerge again! Hockey is dead in Pakistan. Too many hockey clubs disappared from Karachi sence in recent years. We had at least four hockey clubs in our Federal B Area - the home of Sohail Abbas - they all gone! Hockey fields are deserted here!

Hockey is now for rich nations! Not for people who play hockey with impoverished sticks and logs on Karachi streets!

Hockey will never see a 50,000 plus crowd! Remeber 1990 world cup final in Lahore!
Compare CT 1994 - 50,000 people! CT 2006 final - a handful of spectators in Terrssa! Shame for FIH!

Hockey is dead! Long live FIH!

[Mostar95]

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Basically with the introduction of artificial turf, hockey is more about fitness and strength than skills! And as a nation, we are weaker/less healthier than the people in the west or even Korea and Japan. The skills advantage we had over others has become redundant now.

Interests in any game or hockey depend upon winning of the national team here in this part of the world. If they continue to loose and loose only, nobody would like to watch them and follow them!

I predict that in 10 years or so Pakistan will automatically be out of international hockey as it will fail to qualify for the qualifying round of the world cup!

[Mostar95]

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Hockey is slowly dying in Pakistan because it has been abondoned by hockey people themselves! So no one else cares about it! So many of hockey grounds have disappeared or taken by cricket in Karachi - the largest city of Pakistan (perhaps world's 2nd largest). Things elsewhere in the country are also not encouraging. Hockey is limited to a few towns up in the north!

Sad days for Pakistan hockey! Finishing out of top 4 for the third consecutive world cup!

[GoldenAsif]

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Basically with the introduction of artificial turf, hockey is more about fitness and strength than skills! And as a nation, we are weaker/less healthier than the people in the west or even Korea and Japan. The skills advantage we had over others has become redundant now.

Interests in any game or hockey depend upon winning of the national team here in this part of the world. If they continue to loose and loose only, nobody would like to watch them and follow them!

I predict that in 10 years or so Pakistan will automatically be out of international hockey as it will fail to qualify for the qualifying round of the world cup!

only partly true.

Astroturfs were first introduced in 1978-9 but we were still the top team until 1984 (Los Angeles Olympics) and we won our last major tournament (world Cup) in 1994.

Yes the sport is dying in Pakistan but it has to do with other factors as well like a lack of money in hockey (national players' salaries are laughable when compared to those of cricketers), not enough marketing or promotion of the game on the international stage, so kids are less inclined to play hockey now. It is still considered primarily a female sport. In Britain for instance there is more interest in how their women's team is doing at the Olympics. In nutshell the continuing poor performance of our national team and the general lack of money, advertisement and perks etc. in hockey does n't inspire youngsters to take up hockey as a profession. Cricket is what drives and inspires most sports-minded teenagers in Pakistan. That's where all the glamour and money is.

[Mostar95]

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We only won 1984 olympics and 1994 world cup during this period. As other nations were acquiring new astro turfs and the skills more suited to play on artifical turfs, they took time to evolve.

[GoldenAsif]

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The three C's best describe Pakistan

Cricket, Coup and Corruption!

[GoldenAsif]

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We only won 1984 olympics and 1994 world cup during this period. As other nations were acquiring new astro turfs and the skills more suited to play on artifical turfs, they took time to evolve.

Those glory days when he had a dream forward line might never come back. Left-out Samiullah, Left-in Hanif Khan, Centre-forward Hassan Sardar (a dream player, arguably the greatest hockey player ever), Right-in Manzoor Junior, Right-out Kaleemullah. In those days I remember noone really mentioned the word defeat. It was all about how big the victory margin would be despite us not being very good at taking penalty corners then. In the 90s we found real talent in Sohail Abbas but our forward line was never brilliant. Shahbaz was exceptional but the rest were ordinary.

[Mostar95]

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Those glory days when he had a dream forward line might never come back. Left Out Samiullah, Left-in Hanif Khan, Centre-forward Hassan Sardar (a dream player, arguably the greatest hockey player ever), Right-in Manzoor Junior, Right-out Kaleemullah. In those days I remember noone really mentioned the word defeat. It was all about how big the victory margin would be despite us not being very good at taking penalty corners then. In the 90s we found real talent in Sohail Abbas but our forward line was never brilliant. Shahbaz was exceptional but the rest were ordinary.

Very ture. Well 1978-1980 was a golden era of Pakistan hockey when we won all the intenational matches. We have such marvellous record in hockey that can never be achieved by our cricket team, yet we have abondoned hockey.

[James_Bhaand]

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off topic - sorry about that
but is there some place where I could watch the old classic matches played by Pakistan. I am talking about the 1978 WC and the 1984 olympics - specifically

any website ?

[GoldenAsif]

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^ I have requested on GEO website. Let's see if they can find some of these classic matches?