Manpreet Singh (field hockey) Manpreet Singh (field hockey) Manpreet Singh, full name Manpreet Singh Pawar (born 26 June 1992) is an Indian field hockey player and current captain of India men's national field hockey team since May 2017. He plays as a halfback. He first played for India in 2011 at the age of 19. He represented India at the 2012 Summer Olympics and was named Asia's Junior Player of the Year in 2014. He was named in the Indian squad for the 2016 Summer Olympics. Manpreet Singh was born in a farming family in Mithapur village on outskirts of Jalandhar city of Punjab
Sport in India almost every school, although very few people follow it professionally. India has both men's and women's national basketball teams. Both teams have hired head coaches who have worked extensively with NBA players and now aim to popularise the game in India. Satnam Singh Bhamara officially marks the first player from India to be selected in the NBA by being taken by the Dallas Mavericks as the 52nd pick of the 2015 NBA draft, as well as the first player to be drafted straight out of high school as a postgraduate. The "Young Cagers", as the national team is nicknamed, made