~Neha performed her one hundred and fiftieth worldwide match when India took on the Netherlands within the Girls’s FIH Hockey Professional League 2023/24~
Bhubaneswar, 4th February 2024: Hockey India congratulated Neha on finishing 150 Worldwide Caps when India took on the Netherlands of their second match of the FIH Hockey Professional League 2023/24 on the Kalinga Stadium in Bhubaneswar on Sunday.
Neha, the 27-year-old from, is a midfielder for the Indian Girls’s Hockey workforce and has carried out immense justice to her position. Having made her debut in 2014, Neha was part of the squad that received the Gold within the 2016 South Asian Video games that occurred in Guwahati, India. She was additionally a part of the Indian Girls’s Hockey Workforce after they struck Gold on the 2017 Girls’s Hockey Asia Cup in Gifu, Japan the place they beat China within the finals.
The nimble midfielder performed a big position within the workforce that received the Silver medal on the 2018 Asian Video games in Jakarta and was additionally part of the squad that completed second within the 2018 Asian Champions Trophy at Donghae. Neha represented India on the 2018 Girls’s Hockey World Cup in London the place the workforce completed eighth and was additionally within the workforce that completed fourth within the 2018 Commonwealth Video games in Australia.
Neha was additionally part of the Indian Girls’s Hockey Workforce after they narrowly missed out on a medal as they completed fourth within the Tokyo Olympics 2020. Her contribution was essential in India profitable the Bronze medal on the 2022 Girls’s Hockey Asia Cup held in Muscat, Oman. The 2022 Commonwealth Video games in Birmingham, England noticed the Indian Girls’s Hockey Workforce ending in third place after beating New Zealand within the Bronze medal match and Neha was part of the squad.
In December 2022, Neha was part of the Indian Girls’s Hockey Workforce that beat the host nation Spain within the Girls’s FIH Hockey Nations Cup finals at Valencia to win the Gold medal. She was additionally part of the squad that received the Bronze medal within the Asian Video games in Hangzhou that led to October 2023. Successful the Gold medal with the Indian Girls’s Hockey Workforce on the 2023 Girls’s Asian Champions Trophy at Ranchi, Jharkhand was Neha’s most up-to-date achievement.
When requested concerning the great achievement, she mentioned, “I’m actually honoured that I’ve had the chance to signify the nation in 150 matches. It has include its fair proportion of challenges however I’m glad I’ve been capable of push by means of all of it. I owe a particular due to my household, buddies, teammates and assist workers. They may all the time maintain a particular place in my coronary heart for all of the assist they’ve given me through the years.”
Congratulating Neha on attaining this milestone, Hockey India President Dr. Dilip Tirkey mentioned, “This can be a enormous achievement for Neha and we’re extraordinarily pleased for and pleased with her. With the ability to maintain oneself for therefore lengthy takes a unique stage of effort and dedication and I’m positive she’s solely going to develop from power to power and proceed to serve the Indian Girls’s Hockey Workforce with unmatched dedication.”
