Former India player Sita Mehta on importance of strong midfield, changes in women's hockey ahead of World Cup
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Former India player Sita Mehta on importance of strong midfield, changes in women's hockey ahead of World Cup
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• July 26, 2018, 17:44:53 IST
It was in the 1998 Utrecht World Cup that Sita Gusain Mehta realised while playing under Colonel Balbir Singh Kular that a strong midfield is essential in modern hockey; a group of players who could ease into attack and also fall back into defence. Those lessons proved invaluable when India won the 2002 Commonwealth Games Gold. Sita was a member of that famous team. Here she talks about those days, how hockey has changed and whether the present team can create something magical at the London World Cup.
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