Hyderabad Sultans

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The Hyderabad Sultans was the Indian Premier Hockey League team from Hyderabad.Script error: No such module "Unsubst". The squad was captained by Sardara Singh in the 2008 edition. They were winners of the first Premier Hockey League in 2005.[1]

History

Founding

The club was formed in year 2005. Sultans, led by ever-dependable Dilip Tirkey, were crowned the champions of the inaugural PHL at home ground,[1] held at the sprawling Gachibowli Sports Complex, with penalty corner specialist Sohail Abbas and Waseem Ahmad who helped the team score crucial wins with their combined moves in the first year. Sohail Abbas became the joint top-scorers of the league.[2][3]

Loss of form and players exodus (2006–2007)

In the second year too, Hyderabad Sultans played well and were in contention for the final berth, but were edged out by Bangalore Lions on goal average. They won five out of the eight matches and had 13 points, just one less than the table toppers Chandigarh Dynamos and Hyderabad Sultans finished third in league.[4] In the third year, Hyderabad Sultans failed miserably, winning just one match in the new format. They also lost their skipper Dilip Tirkey and many experienced players who joined Orissa Steelers, as they were promoted to the Premier division. Sultans ended at the bottom of the table, avoiding relegation as Second division was scrapped.[5]

2008

In the season of 2008 young Sardara Singh led the team, along with his brother Didar Singh, Bikas Toppo and Pawal Lakra, who were capable of making inroads into any defence. The team had an emerging drag-flicker in Diwakar Ram. The players to watch out were upcoming Promod Kumar, who was the fulcrum of the team, the foreign players Adnan Maqsood and Kamran Ahmed, along with Dutch goalkeeper Oscar Ter Weeme. The team also had a new coach in Madhukaran who was assisted by Alphonse Lazarus and they finished fourth, qualifying for play-off where they lost to Chandigarh Dynamos.[6][7][8]

Season by season performance

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Season Played Won Draw Lost ET-W ET-L GF GA GD Points Position
2005 8 6 0 2 - - 24 17 7 19 Champions
2006 8 5 0 3 - - 10 9 1 13 Third
2007 12 1 0 9 1 1 11 26 -15 6 Seventh
2008 6 3 0 2 1 0 11 7 4 11 Fourth

Players

As of 2008[9]

Name Country
Sardara Singh (captain) Template:Flagicon
Dinesh Ekka Template:Flagicon
Samir Baxla Template:Flagicon
Jasbir Singh Template:Flagicon
Diwakar Ram Template:Flagicon
Johnson Ekka Template:Flagicon
Anand Tirkey Template:Flagicon
Nitin Kumar Template:Flagicon
Didar Singh Template:Flagicon
Pramod Kumar Template:Flagicon
Bikas Toppo Template:Flagicon
Pawal Lakra Template:Flagicon
Veer Singh Template:Flagicon
Kulbhushan Template:Flagicon
K M Chengappa Template:Flagicon
Kamran Ahmed Template:Flagicon
Adnan Maqsood Template:Flagicon
Oscar Ter Weeme Template:Flagicon

Note: List of players is obtained from PHL website. The list might change in the near future.

Personnel

Former players

[3][4][5][10]

Former players
Name Career Country
Dilip Tirkey 2005–2006 Template:Flagicon
S Rajasekhar 2005 Template:Flagicon
Inderjeet Singh Chadha 2005 Template:Flagicon
Ajitesh Rai 2005–2007 Template:Flagicon
Harsha Vardhan 2005 Template:Flagicon
Chandan Singh 2005 Template:Flagicon
Suresh 2005 Template:Flagicon
Lazarus Barla 2005–2006 Template:Flagicon
Sameer Dad 2005–2006 Template:Flagicon
Cyril Ekka 2005 Template:Flagicon
Sreejesh 2005 Template:Flagicon
Nitya Jayanand 2005–2006 Template:Flagicon
Susan Topno 2005 Template:Flagicon
Devesh Chauhan 2006–2007 Template:Flagicon
Nitin Kumar 2006 – present Template:Flagicon
Johnson Ekka 2006 – present Template:Flagicon
Former players
Name Career Country
Prabhakar Singh 2006 Template:Flagicon
Amit Srivastava 2006 Template:Flagicon
Vikram Pillay 2006–2007 Template:Flagicon
Veer Singh 2006 and 2008 Template:Flagicon
M A Aleem 2006 Template:Flagicon
Devender Pal Singh 2006 Template:Flagicon
Pekrelo 2007 Template:Flagicon
M. Nagraj 2007 Template:Flagicon
Saranjeet Singh 2007 Template:Flagicon
Didar Singh 2007–present Template:Flagicon
Sardara Singh 2007 – present Template:Flagicon
Vivek Gupta 2007 Template:Flagicon
Rajinder Singh 2007 Template:Flagicon
Maryland Amir Hayat 2007 Template:Flagicon
Diwakar Ram 2007 – present Template:Flagicon
Baljit Singh Chandi 2007 – present Template:Flagicon

Goal keepers

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Dates Name Country
2005 Suresh Template:Flagicon
2005 Ahmed Alam Template:Flagicon
2006 Salman Akbar Template:Flagicon
2006–2007 Devesh Chauhan Template:Flagicon
2007 Pfkerlo Template:Flagicon
2008 Oscar ter Weeme Template:Flagicon

Club captains

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Dates Name Country
2005–2006 Dilip Tirkey Template:Flagicon
2007 Devesh Chauhan Template:Flagicon
2008 – present Sardara Singh Template:Flagicon

International players

[3][4][5][10]

Name Career Country
Waseem Ahmad 2005 Template:Flagicon
Ahmed Alam 2005 Template:Flagicon
Sohail Abbas 2005 Template:Flagicon
Salman Akbar 2006 Template:Flagicon
Jorge Lombi 2006 Template:Flagicon
Shakeel Abbasi 2006–2007 Template:Flagicon
Ramón Alegre 2007 Template:Flagicon
Sebastian Westerhout 2007 Template:Flagicon
Tariq Aziz 2007 Template:Flagicon
Kamran Ahmed 2008 Template:Flagicon
Adnan Maqsood 2008 Template:Flagicon
Oscar Ter Weeme 2008 Template:Flagicon

Honours

See also

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References

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