CT2012 bronze-medalist Pakistan jump to 5th in FIH World Rankings

FIH Press Release

MELBOURNE, Australia (TheSportsNEXT) December 11, 2012: The International Hockey Federation announced latest edition of its FIH Men’s World Rankings on Tuesday after the Champions Trophy 2012 came to its conclusion on Sunday.

While the top four positions in the FIH Men’s World Rankings remained unchanged, it was Pakistan who made the most promising run in the top ten as it jumped from ninth to fifth position.

The London 2012 Olympic Gold medallists Germany are still holding the number 1 spot followed by Champions Trophy winners Australia (2nd), Olympic and Champions Trophy Silver medallists The Netherlands (3rd) and England (4th) are occupying the top four positions.

Success in the Champions Trophy for the Kookaburras has seen them slightly narrow the gap between themselves and Germany, while recent strong performances from the Dutch have seen them increase their advantage over England.

Thanks to their brilliant Bronze medal at the Champions Trophy, Pakistan are the most improved nation in the top ten having leapt from 9th place to 5th.

New Zealand continue to hold 6th place ahead of Spain (7th), Champions Challenge finalists Korea (8th), Belgium (9th) and Champions Challenge winners Argentina (10th).

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PHF announces probables for Champions Trophy Hockey

By Babar Malik

Is this the end of Sohail Abbas' international hockey career?

ISLAMABAD, Pakistan (TheSportsNEXT) October 26, 2012: The Pakistan Hockey Federation (PHF), on Thursday, named 27-man probables for the 34^th Champions Trophy Hockey Tournament to be played in Melbourne from December 1-9, 2012.

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The PHF selectors have excluded veterans Rehan Butt and Sohail Abbas but Mohammad Imran, Wasim Ahmed, and Imran Shah managed to find a place in the squad.

The training camp will commence from October 31 in Johar Town Hockey Stadium in Lahore.

Pakistan squad for Champions Trophy Hockey 2012 includes Mohammad Salman Hussain, Waqas Liaqat Butt, Imran Junior, Ahmed Zubair, Usman Rafiq, Ali Hassan, Talal Khalid, Kashif Ali, Sibtain Naqvi, Abdul Haseem Khan, Mohammad Rizwan Junior, Ali Shan, Mohammad Ateeq, Mohammad Nawaz, Waseem Ahmed, Mohammad Tauseeq, Fareed Ahmed, Mohammad Waqas, Shafqat Rasool, Umar Bhutta, Imran Shah, Imran Butt, Irfan Senior, Kashif Shah, Mohammad Imran senior and Mohammad Rizwan senior.

Pakistan is participating in the Champions Trophy Hockey Tournament 2012 after International Hockey Federation (FIH) invited them to be part of the competition after finishing seventh at the Hockey even of the London 2012.

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Official email address of Pakistan Hockey Federation hacked

By AM Khan

LAHORE, Pakistan (TheSportsNEXT) October 3, 2012: The official email address of Pakistan Hockey Federation (PHF) has been hacked and the federation is facing greater difficulty due to the fraudulent emails being sent from the address to various individuals and national hockey federations across the world.

 

Some hackers hacked our email address on Tuesday afternoon and sent spurious emails to different people and national federations whose email addresses were saved in the folder for official correspondence, said PHF secretary M Asif Bajwa here on Tuesday.

PHF was using Pakhockeyfederation@yahoo.com which is no more the valid email address of PHF which has created the new address of pakhockeyfederation@gmail.com.

“We immediately informed the International Hockey Federation (FIH), Asian Hockey Federation (AHF) and all the affiliated national hockey federations across the world about the hacking and asked them not to give any importance to what so ever emails or messages they are receiving from the old address. By the time, the PHF introduced its new email address the hackers sent a number of emails to create confusion,” he added.

Bajwa said they had acquired the services of IT experts to determine who is behind the hacking of their email address.

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