Asia hockey Championship:Squad conquered disarray and took charge to win the Asian championship again and earn a spot in the 2026 World Cup

In the context of Indian hockey, the following words are rarely used combined in a same sentence: a brutal, unafraid effort in a major championship game. We haven’t seen Craig Fulton’s side avatar in a long time. It may have been a few years since the Asian Games final when they last delivered this type of faultless performance, or wire-to-wire supremacy, as Formula 1 refers to it.
India, which stumbled to open their Asia Cup campaign in Rajgir, won the continental crown for the first time since 2017 after shedding turmoil and embracing control to defeat Korea, the only team to hold them in this tournament, 4-1.