The Indian women's team to qualify for the 2018 Women's World Cup in London today left for the  Hockey World League Semi Final at Johannesburg.

The team's chief coach Sjoerd Marijne said "We played a couple of matches over the past one week against U18 Boys. The whole idea of playing these matches was to see how the team copes with handling speed considering the boys play faster hockey. The physical aspect too was put to test," 

"We would do four sessions a day and it is not easy training so hard at high altitude. The sessions were very challenging but the girls are eager and excited to earn a berth in the World Cup. Barring a couple of us on the team, most of them have not participated in a World Cup event and that anticipation is driving the team to give their 100 per cent each session, each match and I are confident of a good show," expressed skipper Rani.

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