Asian Champions Trophy hockey: India play Korea first up

Manpreet Singh

Olympic bronze medallist Indian men's hockey team will start its new cycle with a bunch of youngsters aiming to prove their mettle when it begins its Asian Champions Trophy campaign against Korea here on Tuesday.

India have won this prestigious event thrice since its inception in 2011 and have won the previous two editions held in 2016 in Kuantan, Malaysia and 2018 in Muscat, Oman. India will play their opening match against Korea today.

Skipper Manpreet Singh emphasised on getting off to a good start. "Korea is a good team and are very capable of slowing down our attack. In this same venue during the Asia Cup in 2017, we had drawn [1-1] against them in the league stage. Hence, it's important we don't get complacent against them and ensure our basics are right when we play them tomorrow," he said.

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