“Your hockey corpondent maintains that this Indian team is a poor one and therefore any success by Canterbury and New Zealand teams is because of weak opposition. This Indian team completed its sixteenth match on Saturday against Otago and has scored 97 goals. In 1958 the Pakistan team, playing on smooth grounds in April and May, scored 93 (and this team went on to win the Asian Games and the Olympic gold medal), while the 1955 Indian team scored 95 goals in the first 16 matches. The overseas international experience our players have had of recent years has surely raised our standard ail round (which was obvious to anyone who saw Canterbury play India) and still this Indian team can score more goals than the two previous teams. Does your correspondent know that 14 of the 16 players were selected by the Indian Hockey Federation's selection panel and that 10 to 12 of them are expected to be in the All-India teem for the Asian Ganws next year?—B FAIR. ”
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Press, Volume C, Issue 29554, 1 July 1961, Page 5
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