World Cup-winning striker Ashok Kumar, son of the legendary Major Dhyan Chand, on Tuesday said it is high time India ...

The quest to solve the 2026 World Cup's turf problem has led to a high-stakes experiment, with the solution set to debut at ...

He says the World Cup win marked the last era of ... Within months of our triumph, the world hockey body decided to replace grass with astroturf. How else would the Europeans beat India and ...

In the early 1970s, Indian hockey faced challenges, winning only an Olympic bronze after Tokyo 1964. The 1975 World Cup victory in Kuala Lumpur, led by captain Ajit Pal Singh and key players ...

The refrigerated trucks will rumble down a thousand miles of highway, tracked by the minute and packed with rolls of the most precious grass in sports ... to a 2026 World Cup problem: turf.

Their 2026 World Cup venues come with different capabilities and climates. Among those 16, they’ve taken an “à la carte” approach, even to seemingly simple things like grass type.