Hockey Pro League: India beat Australia again to add to feel-good factor after World Cup debacle
In the cycle of emotions that hockey evokes, India has once again reached the stage of hope. Flirting with optimism is fraught with risk since it almost always ends with a stab in the heart but for hockey tragics, it is tough not to get carried away in the wave of optimism. Especially when a team that looked out of its depth a couple of months ago gets its act together and puts on a show.
FIH Pro League results always come with caveats since teams, including India, seldom field full-strength sides. At Rourkela this last week, all three nations used the mini-tournament to test combinations heading into the Olympic cycle. So, India’s unbeaten run against world champions Germany and bogey team Australia, whom they held to a 2-2 draw on Wednesday (winning the tie-breakers 5-4), should be ta...