2012 World Series Hockey

World Series Hockey 2012
Tournament Details
Dates 29 February – 1 April
Administrator(s) Indian Hockey Federation
Tournament Format(s) Double Round-robin and Knock-out
Host(s)  India
Venue(s) 8 (List of Venues)
Teams 8 (List of Teams)
Final Positions
Champions TBD
1st Runners-up TBD
2nd Runners-up TBD
Tournament Details
Matches played 61 to be played
WSH Rockstar TBD
Indian Super Star TBD
Golden Stick TBD
Game Changer TBD
Rookie of the Year TBD
Official website World Series Hockey

2012 World Series Hockey is the first season of the hockey tournament World Series Hockey. The tournament was to take place from 17 December 2011 to 22 January 2012 but later was postponed to 29 February 2012 owing to Olympic qualifiers.[1] Eight teams are going to take part in this competition. The teams are Chennai Cheetahs, Delhi Wizards, Karnataka Lions, Mumbai Warriors, Pune Strykers, Punjab, Chandigarh and Bhopal. The entire event will take place on ‘home and away’ basis culminating into multi header Playoffs.

Contents

Venues

Following eight venues will host the matches of eight franchises on a home and away basis: Delhi, Mumbai, Pune, Bhopal, Jalandhar, Chandigarh, Bangalore and Chennai will host the matches of eight franchises on a home and away basis.

Originally, nine venues were selected and upgraded with floodlights, replay screens, and scoreboards but organisers decided not to have any matches in Hyderabad's Gachibowli Hockey Stadium.[2] Major Dhyan Chand National Stadium will host the opening ceremony and the inaugural match.

Players

Main article: List of World Series Hockey players

The players for the eight teams were finalized on November 28 based on the draft system.[3]

Team Captain Coach
Chennai Cheetahs Brent Livermore Jose Brasa
Delhi Wizards Lucas Vila Roelant Oltmans
Karnataka Lions Arjun Halappa Jude Felix
Mumbai Warriors Adrian D'Souza Andrew Meredith
Pune Strykers Rodrigo Garza Gundeep Singh
Bhopal Sardara Singh Vasudevan Bhaskaran
Chandigarh Rehan Butt Harendra Singh
Punjab Prabhjot Singh Rajinder Singh

Exhibition Match

An exhibition match was organised on December 20 at Sector 42 Stadium, Chandigarh. Match was played between WSH World XI and WSH India XI. A neck to neck match till the second quarter was won by World XI due to and attacking play during the last two quarters. The World XI was captained by Brent Livermore and coached by Jose Brasa and Andrew Meredith. Prabhjot Singh led the India XI and coached by Jude Felix and Harendra Singh.[4]

All matches' timings according to Indian Standard Time (UTC +5:30)

20 December 2011
19:30
WSH India XI 2 - 7 WSH World XI Sector 42 Stadium, Chandigarh
Deepak Thakur 17'
Dhanraj Pillay 32'		 Joseph Reardon 10'
Roderik Huber 32'
Connor Grimes 38'
Phelie Maguire 40'
Peter Kelly 55', 59'
David Seddon 67'

References

  1. ^ "World Series Hockey postponed to February 29". NDTV. 12 December 2011. http://www.ndtv.com/article/sports/world-series-hockey-postponed-to-march-sources-182303. Retrieved 12 December 2011. 
  2. ^ http://www.thehindu.com/news/cities/Hyderabad/article2711580.ece
  3. ^ "Dhanraj to represent Karnataka in WSH: Final Teams". The Fans of Hockey. 2011-11-28. http://thefansofhockey.com/2011/11/28/dhanraj-to-represent-karnataka-in-wsh-final-teams/. Retrieved 2011-12-12. 
  4. ^ http://sports.ndtv.com/othersports/hockey/item/182696-india-xi-vs-world-xi-to-promote-wsh

See Also

Teams
Chennai Cheetahs · Delhi Wizards · Karnataka Lions · Mumbai Warriors · Pune Strykers · Bhopal · Chandigarh · Punjab
Seasons
2012
Stadiums