{"id":23852,"date":"2011-05-03T11:37:24","date_gmt":"2011-05-03T11:37:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/indiansportsnews.com\/?p=23852"},"modified":"2011-05-03T11:37:24","modified_gmt":"2011-05-03T11:37:24","slug":"hockey-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/indiansportsnews.com\/?p=23852","title":{"rendered":"Hockey"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" size-full wp-image-21982\" src=\"https:\/\/indiansportsnews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/05\/know-hockey-0.jpg\" alt=\"\" border=\"0\" width=\"170\" height=\"151\" srcset=\"https:\/\/indiansportsnews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/05\/know-hockey-0.jpg 170w, https:\/\/indiansportsnews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/05\/know-hockey-0-150x133.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 170px) 100vw, 170px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Hockey is a game played with a ball and a hockey stick.<\/li>\n<li>Two teams with eleven players each including a goal keeper.<\/li>\n<li>Five substitute can be used throughout the game.<\/li>\n<li>One can be substituted any time and as many times by the coach, except when a penalty stroke is being taken. Substitute has to enter the game at the center of the field.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Hockey stick:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Flat on one side and curved at the other<\/li>\n<li>It cannot weigh more than 737 gm<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Ball:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Weight- 156 to 163 grammes<\/li>\n<li>Circumference- 22.4 to 23.5 cm<\/li>\n<li>Colour-white or any other agreed or permitted<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Hockey Field:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Rectangular 91.4 meters long 55.0 meters wide<\/li>\n<li>Marked with 7.5 cm wide white lines<\/li>\n<li>Longer 91.4 meter lines are called side lines and shorter 55.0 meter lines are called back lines.<\/li>\n<li>There is a center line and two other lines (22.90) from the center.<\/li>\n<li>At the center of each back line are goals. It is rectangular in shape with 2.14 meters high and 3.66 meters apart.<\/li>\n<li>Goal lines are between the back line and the goal post<\/li>\n<li>Goals are surrounded by 16 yard semicircle or sometimes also reffered as &lsquo;D&rsquo; because of the shape it gives. These are shooting circles and a goal can not be score unless the shot came from within the circle. Width of the goals is 4 yard each.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Duration:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>International matches- 35 minutes each half<\/li>\n<li>Junior hockey- 20 minutes each half<\/li>\n<li>Intermediate and secondary hockey- 25 to 30 minutes<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Umpires:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>&nbsp; Two umpires<\/li>\n<li>&nbsp; Take half of the field each and work in their own half.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Governing body:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&bull;&nbsp;&nbsp; &nbsp;International Hockey Federation (FIH) an apex body governing at the top<br \/>&bull;&nbsp;&nbsp; &nbsp;Hockey India solely responsible for men and women hockey in India.<\/p>\n<h3>Major Hockey tournaments:<\/h3>\n<p>Though there are many tournament organized by international hockey federation and other hockey playing nations. But here are the few major tournaments of hockey<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>The Hockey World Cup (organized in between the Olympics years). The first hockey world cup was held in the year 1971.<\/li>\n<li>The Olympics- hockey as a sport was added in the Olympics in the year 1908.<\/li>\n<li>Champion&rsquo;s Trophy- held yearly by FIH in round robin format. It is the brain child of Pakistan<\/li>\n<li>Asian Games and the Asia Cup &#8211; to show their dominance in Asian sub continent.<\/li>\n<li>Sultan Azlan Shah Cup- held in Malaysia. Earlier organized once in two year, later made as the yearly event.<\/li>\n<li>Euro Cup in European countries<\/li>\n<li>The World Champion&rsquo;s Challenge- to improve the game of newly hockey playing nations. The tournament is held to help the teams, which rank between 7 and 12 to improve their game and ranking.<\/li>\n<li>The common wealth games hockey tournaments among common wealth nations.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Other major hockey games:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Ice hockey<\/li>\n<li>Roller hockey<\/li>\n<li>Sledge hockey<\/li>\n<li>Street hockey<\/li>\n<li>Beach hockey<\/li>\n<li>Underwater hockey etc&hellip;<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" size-full wp-image-21982\" src=\"https:\/\/indiansportsnews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/05\/know-hockey-0.jpg\" alt=\"\" border=\"0\" width=\"170\" height=\"151\" srcset=\"https:\/\/indiansportsnews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/05\/know-hockey-0.jpg 170w, https:\/\/indiansportsnews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/05\/know-hockey-0-150x133.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 170px) 100vw, 170px\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":21982,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[99],"tags":[12089,12087,243,12088],"class_list":["post-23852","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-know-your-sports","tag-how-to-play-hockey","tag-know-hockey","tag-know-your-sports","tag-learn-hockey"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v28.0 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Hockey - IndianSportsNews.com - Latest Updated Sports News &amp; 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