{"id":3961,"date":"2012-03-28T05:53:59","date_gmt":"2012-03-28T05:53:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/indiansportsnews.co.in\/?p=3961"},"modified":"2012-03-28T05:53:59","modified_gmt":"2012-03-28T05:53:59","slug":"india-to-participate-in-azlan-shah-cup","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/indiansportsnews.co.in\/?p=3961","title":{"rendered":"Azlan Shah: India to play opening match against Kiwis"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"images\/hockey\/azlan_shah.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\"India to participate in Azlan Shah Cup\" style=\"float: left; margin: 6px;\" \/>New Delhi<\/strong>: India will participate in the 21st <a href=\"component\/search\/?searchword=Sultan+Azlan+Shah+Cup&amp;ordering=&amp;searchphrase=all\" title=\"http:\/\/www.indiansportsnews.com\/component\/search\/?searchword=Sultan+Azlan+Shah+Cup&amp;ordering=&amp;searchphrase=all\">Sultan Azlan Shah Cup Hockey Tournament<\/a> to be held at Sultan Azlan Shah Stadium, Ipoh from May 24 to June 3, 2012. India have been five time winners of this tournament, having annexed the title in 1985, 1991, 1995, 2009 and 2010.<\/p>\n<p>Besides India, the other teams who shall participate in this tournament are Great Britain, Korea, New Zealand, Pakistan, Argentina and host Malaysia.<\/p>\n<p>This seven nation tournament will be played on round- robin league format, culminating in positional playoffs on the last day.<\/p>\n<p>India will open their campaign against New Zealand on May 24 to be followed with matches against Korea, Great Britain, Malaysia, Argentina and Pakistan.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><strong>By Indian Sports News Network<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><strong><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"images\/hockey\/azlan_shah.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\"India to participate in Azlan Shah Cup\" style=\"float: left; margin: 6px;\" \/>New Delhi<\/strong>: India will participate in the 21st <a href=\"component\/search\/?searchword=Sultan+Azlan+Shah+Cup&amp;ordering=&amp;searchphrase=all\" title=\"http:\/\/www.indiansportsnews.com\/component\/search\/?searchword=Sultan+Azlan+Shah+Cup&amp;ordering=&amp;searchphrase=all\">Sultan Azlan Shah Cup Hockey Tournament<\/a> to be held at Sultan Azlan Shah Stadium, Ipoh from May 24 to June 3, 2012. India have been five time winners of this tournament, having annexed the title in 1985, 1991, 1995, 2009 and 2010.<\/p>\n<p>Besides India, the other teams who shall participate in this tournament are Great Britain, Korea, New Zealand, Pakistan, Argentina and host Malaysia.<\/p>\n<p>This seven nation tournament will be played on round- robin league format, culminating in positional playoffs on the last day.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[2991],"class_list":["post-3961","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","category-hockey-hockey","tag-azlan-shah-cup-hockey-tournament"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v28.0 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Azlan Shah: India to play opening match against Kiwis - IndianSportsNews.com - Latest Updated Sports News &amp; Sports Blogs of Cricket, Hockey, Golf, Football, Tennis &amp; Other Sports<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/indiansportsnews.co.in\/?p=3961\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Azlan Shah: India to play opening match against Kiwis - IndianSportsNews.com - Latest Updated Sports News &amp; Sports Blogs of Cricket, Hockey, Golf, Football, Tennis &amp; Other Sports\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"New Delhi: India will participate in the 21st Sultan Azlan Shah Cup Hockey Tournament to be held at Sultan Azlan Shah Stadium, Ipoh from May 24 to June 3, 2012. 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