{"id":22615,"date":"2013-01-15T14:12:01","date_gmt":"2013-01-15T20:12:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.drishtikone.com\/?p=22615"},"modified":"2013-01-15T14:12:01","modified_gmt":"2013-01-15T20:12:01","slug":"hockey-india-league-starts-off-on-a-promising-note","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/drishtikone\/2013\/01\/hockey-india-league-starts-off-on-a-promising-note\/","title":{"rendered":"Hockey India League starts off on a promising note"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<\/head>


\n\"HIL\"<\/a><\/p>\n

Hockey India League is a professional league for\u00a0field hockey\u00a0competition in India. It is organised by\u00a0Hockey India.<\/p>\n

Each HIL franchise has 24 players which include 10 foreign and 14 Indian players. \u00a0\u00a0The players were acquired in an auction which was held on 16 December.<\/p>\n

A total of 246 players were available for the auction out of which 93 were foreign player and 153 local. \u00a0\u00a0Teun de Nooijer<\/strong>\u00a0is the highest paid player of the league who was bought by\u00a0Uttar Pradesh Wizards\u00a0whereas\u00a0Sardar Singh<\/strong>\u00a0is the highest paid Indian player bought by\u00a0Delhi Wave Riders. The participating players were given the privilege to choose their base price which will have four slabs.<\/p>\n

The Hockey India League is bringing the best coaches in the world \u2013 like Ric Charlesworth etc (see the profiles of the coaches in HIL here<\/a>)- and the top international players are coming over to be part of the whole Hockey League. \u00a0Will it be any better than the other two attempts at creating such leagues in India? \u00a0That is an important question for, Premier Hockey League (PHL)<\/em> and World Series Hockey<\/em> have been two other private leagues were started earlier. \u00a0The latter fizzled out and the latter hasn\u2019t really picked up at all.<\/p>\n

The teams \u2013 and their details \u2013 in the Hockey India League is given in the table below:<\/p>\n

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Three reasons why this league may be successful \u2013<\/p>\n