#1 Selecting the Olympic Sixteen is exceedingly tough now
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A limited bench-strength at their disposal, Indian men’s hockey team will participate in the Rio Olympics 2016 with an overall count of 16 members.
Stalwarts like custodian Sreejesh, defenders Raghunath and Rupinder, midfielders Manpreet Singh and Danish Mujtaba and forward SV Sunil are sure-shot inclusions whereas the likes of SK Uthappa, Nikkin Thimmaiah and Talwinder Singh await the naming of India’s final squad with bated breath.
Come 12th July, all questions will be answered when the Olympic team list is declared by Hockey India, and it’s a no-brainer that the immense competition between quality players available today to represent the nation at the highest stage in the sporting world has complicated matters enormously for the selectors.
