Indian women’s hockey team skipper Rani Rampal, leading the family and country

Rani Rampal, who will lead the Indian women’s national hockey team at the World Cup and Asian Games, has used her hockey career to help lift her financially struggling family as well.

Saurabh Duggal


Rani Rampal is currently the skipper of the Indian women’s hockey team.(Sonu Mehta/HT PHOTO)

Rani Rampal was a teenager when she was included as the youngest in the Indian women’s hockey squad for the 2010 World Cup. Adjudged ‘Young Player of the Tournament’, she was named in the Asian All Star and World XI teams as well that year.