The Indian group has been assembled alongside England, New Zealand and China in pool B in the impending FIH Women’s Hockey World Cup, the nation’s administering body for the game said on Thursday.
The competition will be held in Spain and Netherlands from July 1.
The Indian group as of late gotten its capability for the World Cup subsequent to completing third in the Asia Cup in Muscat.
Talking about contest in their pool, India goalkeeper Savita said, “It is an intense pool with England (world No.3) and New Zealand (world No.8) who are positioned above us and China can continuously spring a shock.
“Collectively, we have consistently accepted we really want to zero in on ourselves and not what the adversary can do. However, since we know who we play in the pool stage, we can design our arrangements appropriately and we anticipate the test.”
The Indian ladies’ group accomplished a best-at any point fourth spot finish at the Tokyo Olympics last year.
The group likewise came to the main eight without precedent for the past version of the World Cup when they drew 1-1 with England, lost 0-1 to Ireland, who proceeded to play the last against title holders Netherlands, and attracted 1-1 against USA the gathering stage.
“It was an excellent competition for ourselves and it taught an incredible ability to be self aware conviction. Draw against England in their home ground was very critical for us in 2018 and we verged on beating Ireland in the quarterfinal however wound up losing in the shootout after a 0-0 draw,” Savita reviewed.
The senior player said the group is more ready this time.
“With the experience we have had over the beyond three-four years, especially in enormous occasions like the Olympic Games in Tokyo, I feel we are more ready intellectually to do well this time at the World Cup,” she added.
Savita further accentuated that the impending FIH Hockey Pro League matches will assist them with getting ready well ahead of the pack up to the lofty quadrennial occasion.
“We will play England at home in the Pro League matches in April and we have effectively played China. I think that playing other top groups of the world like Belgium, Argentina and so forth will help us in our arrangements for the World Cup,” she said.
Netherlands are assembled in pool A with Germany, Ireland and Chile.
In pool C, has Spain will go head to head against Argentina, Korea and Canada and in pool D, Australia, Belgium, Japan and South Africa will take on one another.
