In the 26th Sultan Azlan Shah Cup which is scheduled to begin from the April 29 in Ipoh, Malaysia the Goalkeeper PR Sreejesh will be leading the 18-member Indian men's hockey squad.
The team features Gurinder Singh, midfielders Sumit and Manpreet, a 21-year-old goalkeeper from Mumbai Suraj Karkera, Harmanpreet Singh, Harjeet Singh and forward Mandeep Singh.
The chief coach Roelant Oltmans as per the sources news explained "The idea was to try out new combinations ahead of the three important tournaments this year, which are the World LeagueSemi Final, Asia Cup and the Odisha Men's Hockey League Final Bhubaneswar 2017. We have a few tournaments before these big events like we play Belgium and Germany before we play the World League Semi-Final and we play Belgium and Holland in August. These are good opponents against whom we can test ourselves to access whether the players are achieving what we expect out of them,"
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