Pakistan to participate in 2nd International Festival Hockey
The second International festival hockey tournament will be played at Melbourne and Bendigo, Australia. 4 nation men and 6 nation women event will start from 5th November to 12th November 2017.
Pakistan, Japan, New Zealand and hosts Australia will take part in men hockey event. The event will be played on round robin bases. Pakistan and Japan are participating for the 1st time in this tournament. Last year India and Malaysia participated in the tournament.
Australia is the defending champions while New Zealand were the runner-ups in 2016. India defeated Malaysia to secure the 3rd position and Malaysia remained on the 4th position of 2016's International Festival Hockey tournament.
Pakistan will play its first match against the hosts and defending champions Australia on Wednesday 8th November 2017.
Schedule of Pakistan’s matches
Date Match Time (PST)
8th November Pakistan Vs Australia 12:00 pm
9th November Pakistan Vs Japan 09:00 am
11th November Pakistan Vs New Zealand 9:30 am
Top two teams will qualify for the final of the tournament for gold medal. Final of the tournament will be played on Sunday 12th November.
Schedule for gold and bronze medal matches are:
Date Match Time (PST)
12th November Bronze Medal 9:00 am
12th November Gold Medal 10:45 am
Pakistani 16 member squad for the event is:
- Muhammad Irfan (sr), Captain
- Umar Bhutta, Vice Captain
- Amjad Ali
- Abubakr Mahmood
- Atif Mushtaq
- Hassan Anwar
- Ammad Shakeel Butt
- Tasawwar Abbas
- Rizwan Jr
- Arslan Qadir
- Shajeeh Ahmed
- Shan Irshad
- Atiq Arshad
- Ajaz Ahmed
- Bilal Qadir
- Khizer Akhtar
Team officials are:
- Farhat Khan (manager/head coach)
- Malik Shafqat (coach)
- Muhmmad Sarwar (coach)
- Dr Atif Bashir (team doctor)
- Abuzar Umrao (video analyst)
