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Born | Lucknow, Uttar Pradesh, India | 15 January 2003||||||||||||||||
Playing position | Forward | ||||||||||||||||
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Current club | Indian Oil Corporation Ltd | ||||||||||||||||
Senior career | |||||||||||||||||
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Indian Oil Corporation Ltd | |||||||||||||||||
National team | |||||||||||||||||
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India U21 | |||||||||||||||||
2023– | India | 5 | (0) | ||||||||||||||
Medal record
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Mumtaz Khan (born 15 January 2003) [1] is an Indian women's field hockey player from Uttar Pradesh. She plays as a forward. She made her senior India debut at the FIH pro-league at Bhubaneswar. [2] She plays for Indian Oil Corporation Limited in the domestic tournaments.[ citation needed ]
Khan hails from Lucknow. Her parents, Kaiser Jahan and Hafiz Khan, sell vegetables on a push cart. She has five sisters Farha, Shanaz, Tarannum, Shireen, Sania and a brother, Armaan. Since the family has no house of their own, they stay in the house of her mother's brother (mama). [3] She started playing hockey in 2014. In 2023, she secured employment with Indian Oil Corporation.
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