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Punjab Sports Minister extends best wishes to Indian hockey squad selected for World Cup

Chandigarh, Nov 8 (UNI) The Sports Minister, Punjab, Rana Gurmit Singh Sodhi has extended his best wishes to the Indian squad announced on Thursday for the Hockey World Cup to commence this month. The 18 member squad announced has Manpreet Singh as it's Captain. The World Cup (14th Edition) would be played at Bhubneshwar in Odisha from 28th November to 16th December, 2018. A total of 16 teams are taking part in the sporting extravaganza and Indian team is placed in Group 'C'.
In a press communique issued here, Rana Sodhi termed it as the matter of pride for Punjab that 9 of its players with the inclusion of the Skipper Manpreet Singh have made the cut.
He also said that apart from Manpreet Singh, Akashdeep Singh, Mandeep Singh, Dilpreet Singh, Simranjeet Singh, Hardik Singh, Varun Kumar, Harmanpreet Singh and Krishna Bahadar Pathak hail from Punjab.
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