Match No.1: OTHL Vs Citizen

The FIVE teams in the fray are 

1. One Thousand Hockey Legs (OTHL) XI

2. Citizen Hockey XI

3. Delhi Hockey XI

4. Delhi Rest

5. Faith Club

 

 

 

Best Player of each match is most awaited event

OBJECTIVE:  The event is an effort in continuum to spot, nurture and assemble hockey talent in the Delhi State.

ELIGIBILITY: Players born on or after 01.01.2000 with Delhi Domicile. Each player will represent only one age-group Series in a year.  

VENUE: The venue will often be commercial areas. Therefore, strict adherence to schedule to avail full playtime for which fee is paid, maintenance of decorum (as the Sports Complexes cater to multi-sports and age groups) are essential. Managers and captains of each team are accountable for any violation. OTHL will provide venue & logistics, pay umpires for the entire duration of the Series.

FIXTURE: It is proposed to have 10 rounds in 2019. Fixture of each round will be announced separately. Fixture should be followed in Delhi Hockey’s Social Media or the OTHL’s.  Matches will not be re-scheduled if a team fails to turn up.

ENTRY LIST: Participating teams should submit a team list consisting of 30 players. No player outside the list will ever be permitted to take part. Team management may change five players after every three rounds if need be.

TEAM MANAGEMENT: Each team to a pool of 4 managers and 4 coaches. For each match day, Coach / Manager should be allotted by the respective team management from the above pool. The event will be managed by Shri Nirmal Jeet Singh (Convenor) Shri Anil Khantwal (Co-convenor). Their primary work entail making fixture, running the program, oversight of technical aspects, selecting Best Players & suggest future  goals.

Delhi Hockey  may invite its Selectors for witnessing matches.

 

Selector and WC player Arvind Chhabra interacting with the team

FIRST ROUND RESULTS

Citizen XI beat OTHL XI 2-1

Delhi XI beat Faith Club 2-1

OTHL XI beat Faith Club 2-1

Citizen XIbeat Delhi Rest 3-2

OTHL XI beat Delhi XI 2-1

Faith Clubdrew Delhi Rest 2-2

Citizen XIdrew Faith Club 1-1

Delhi XI beat Delhi Rest 4-0

OTHL XIbeat Delhi Rest 1-0

Citizen XI beat Delhi1-0

MAN OF THE MATCHES

Match No.1

Match No.1

Match No.1 Not decided

Match No.2 Not decided

Match No.3  Sachin (OTHL)

Match No.4 Abhinandan (Citizen)

Match No.5 Abdul Qadir (OTHL)

Match No.6  Neeraj Rana (DR)

Match No.7 Manmeet Singh (FC)

Match No.8 Nitesh (DH)

Match No.9 Kamal (DR)

Match No.10 Mohit (DH)

FIRST ROUND SUMMARY: Eight of the ten matches produced outright results. Except one match, rest all tense encounters the winners getting a slender solitary goal difference. With ten poionts (3 wins and a draw), Citizen Xi led by Mohit Maurya stood top in the points table, following by 9-point OTHL (3 wins). Delhi XI which posted highest number of goals, 7, came third. It is to be noted here that nearly TEN rounds wil be played in the coming days.