Year in Review 2017: Men's hockey team showed promise, but must translate them to performances
Sundeep Misra
India's Sumit Kumar fights for the ball with Germany's Dan Nguyen during their third place play-off of the Hockey World League match in Bhubaneswar. AFP
Recalibration is on the cards. Actually, it’s underway; a new act that will dawn on Indian hockey in the New Year. Once the pack assembles back in Bengaluru, team members will understand their roles. It’s vital as 2018 is a make-or-break year. How many times have we said that and tried to make sense of it? Yet we plod on, somehow or the other keeping our head above water. Surviving. Like a mountaineer caught in a gale while tethering on the edge of an outcrop.