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Hockey World Cup: India’s game of inches against England

15/01/2023 02:12 PM | Click to read full article

The long queues outside the majestic stadium will return on first Sunday of the tournament, when weekend festivities in the steel city will have hockey as the trending activity for locals, just like Friday, when Rourkela’s historic date with international hockey was lit up by India’s win over Spain in front of more than 20,000 fans. The hosts got the monkey off their back with a 2-0 win to settle down in the World Cup.

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