Hyderabad Sultans

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Hyderabad Sultans
Full nameHyderabad Sultans
League Premier Hockey League
Founded2005
Dissolved2008 [1]
Home ground Gachibowli Hockey Stadium
Hyderabad
(Capacity 8,000)
Personnel
Captain Sardara Singh
Manager Madhukaran

The Hyderabad Sultans was the Indian Premier Hockey League team from Hyderabad.[ citation needed ] The squad was captained by Sardara Singh in the 2008 edition. They were winners of the first Premier Hockey League in 2005. [2]

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History

Founding

The club was formed in year 2005. Sultans, led by ever-dependable Dilip Tirkey, were crowned the champions of the inaugural PHL at home ground, [2] held at the sprawling Gachibowli Sports Complex, with penalty corner specialist Sohail Abbas and Waseem Ahmad who helped the team score crucial wins with their combined moves in the first year. Sohail Abbas became the joint top-scorers of the league. [3] [4]

Loss of form and players exodus (2006–2007)

In the second year too, Hyderabad Sultans played well and were in contention for the final berth, but were edged out by Bangalore Lions on goal average. They won five out of the eight matches and had 13 points, just one less than the table toppers Chandigarh Dynamos and Hyderabad Sultans finished third in league. [5] In the third year, Hyderabad Sultans failed miserably, winning just one match in the new format. They also lost their skipper Dilip Tirkey and many experienced players who joined Orissa Steelers, as they were promoted to the Premier division. Sultans ended at the bottom of the table, avoiding relegation as Second division was scrapped. [6]

2008

In the season of 2008 young Sardara Singh led the team, along with his brother Didar Singh, Bikas Toppo and Pawal Lakra, who were capable of making inroads into any defence. The team had an emerging drag-flicker in Diwakar Ram. The players to watch out were upcoming Promod Kumar, who was the fulcrum of the team, the foreign players Adnan Maqsood and Kamran Ahmed, along with Dutch goalkeeper Oscar Ter Weeme. The team also had a new coach in Madhukaran who was assisted by Alphonse Lazarus and they finished fourth, qualifying for play-off where they lost to Chandigarh Dynamos. [7] [8] [9]

Season by season performance

[4] [5] [6] [8]

SeasonPlayedWonDrawLostET-WET-LGFGAGDPointsPosition
20058602--2417719Champions
20068503--109113Third
200712109111126-156Seventh
2008630210117411Fourth

Players

As of 2008 [10]

NameCountry
Sardara Singh (captain) Flag of India.svg
Dinesh Ekka Flag of India.svg
Samir Baxla Flag of India.svg
Jasbir Singh Flag of India.svg
Diwakar Ram Flag of India.svg
Johnson Ekka Flag of India.svg
Anand Tirkey Flag of India.svg
Nitin Kumar Flag of India.svg
Didar Singh Flag of India.svg
Pramod Kumar Flag of India.svg
Bikas Toppo Flag of India.svg
Pawal Lakra Flag of India.svg
Veer Singh Flag of India.svg
Kulbhushan Flag of India.svg
K M Chengappa Flag of India.svg
Kamran Ahmed Flag of Pakistan.svg
Adnan Maqsood Flag of Pakistan.svg
Oscar Ter Weeme Flag of the Netherlands.svg

Note: List of players is obtained from PHL website. The list might change in the near future.

Personnel

Former players

[4] [5] [6] [11]

Former players
NameCareerCountry
Dilip Tirkey 2005–2006 Flag of India.svg
S Rajasekhar 2005 Flag of India.svg
Inderjeet Singh Chadha 2005 Flag of India.svg
Ajitesh Rai 2005–2007 Flag of India.svg
Harsha Vardhan 2005 Flag of India.svg
Chandan Singh 2005 Flag of India.svg
Suresh 2005 Flag of India.svg
Lazarus Barla 2005–2006 Flag of India.svg
Sameer Dad 2005–2006 Flag of India.svg
Cyril Ekka 2005 Flag of India.svg
Sreejesh 2005 Flag of India.svg
Nitya Jayanand 2005–2006 Flag of India.svg
Susan Topno 2005 Flag of India.svg
Devesh Chauhan 2006–2007 Flag of India.svg
Nitin Kumar2006 – present Flag of India.svg
Johnson Ekka 2006 – present Flag of India.svg
Former players
NameCareerCountry
Prabhakar Singh 2006 Flag of India.svg
Amit Srivastava 2006 Flag of India.svg
Vikram Pillay 2006–2007 Flag of India.svg
Veer Singh 2006 and 2008 Flag of India.svg
M A Aleem 2006 Flag of India.svg
Devender Pal Singh 2006 Flag of India.svg
Pekrelo 2007 Flag of India.svg
M. Nagraj 2007 Flag of India.svg
Saranjeet Singh 2007 Flag of India.svg
Didar Singh 2007–present Flag of India.svg
Sardara Singh 2007 – present Flag of India.svg
Vivek Gupta 2007 Flag of India.svg
Rajinder Singh 2007 Flag of India.svg
Maryland Amir Hayat 2007 Flag of India.svg
Diwakar Ram 2007 – present Flag of India.svg
Baljit Singh Chandi 2007 – present Flag of India.svg

Goal keepers

[4] [5] [6] [11]

DatesNameCountry
2005 Suresh Flag of India.svg
2005 Ahmed Alam Flag of Pakistan.svg
2006 Salman Akbar Flag of Pakistan.svg
2006–2007 Devesh Chauhan Flag of India.svg
2007 Pfkerlo Flag of India.svg
2008 Oscar ter Weeme Flag of the Netherlands.svg

Club captains

[4] [5] [6] [11]

DatesNameCountry
2005–2006 Dilip Tirkey Flag of India.svg
2007 Devesh Chauhan Flag of India.svg
2008 – present Sardara Singh Flag of India.svg

International players

[4] [5] [6] [11]

NameCareerCountry
Waseem Ahmad 2005 Flag of Pakistan.svg
Ahmed Alam 2005 Flag of Pakistan.svg
Sohail Abbas 2005 Flag of Pakistan.svg
Salman Akbar 2006 Flag of Pakistan.svg
Jorge Lombi 2006 Flag of Argentina.svg
Shakeel Abbasi 2006–2007 Flag of Pakistan.svg
Ramón Alegre 2007 Flag of Spain.svg
Sebastian Westerhout 2007 Flag of the Netherlands.svg
Tariq Aziz 2007 Flag of Pakistan.svg
Kamran Ahmed 2008 Flag of Pakistan.svg
Adnan Maqsood 2008 Flag of Pakistan.svg
Oscar Ter Weeme 2008 Flag of the Netherlands.svg

Honours

See also

References

  1. Brahma, Biswajyoti (16 January 2010). "Dhanraj Pillay bats for hockey league in India". The Times of India. Retrieved 22 February 2020.
  2. 1 2 3 Hyderabad Sultans win PHL
  3. Sohail Abbas becomes joint top scorer of league [ permanent dead link ]
  4. 1 2 3 4 5 6 PHL 1 - 2005 Season Review [ permanent dead link ]
  5. 1 2 3 4 5 6 PHL 2 - 2006 Season Review [ permanent dead link ]
  6. 1 2 3 4 5 6 PHL 3 - 2007 Season Review [ permanent dead link ]
  7. PHL 4 Sultans Team Archived 2008-02-16 at the Wayback Machine
  8. 1 2 PHL 4 League Standing Archived 2008-02-09 at the Wayback Machine
  9. PHL 4 Match Results Archived 2007-11-29 at the Wayback Machine
  10. Current Hyderabad Sultans Squard Archived 2008-02-16 at the Wayback Machine
  11. 1 2 3 4 PHL 4 - 2008 Season Sultans Team Archived 2008-02-16 at the Wayback Machine