Paris Olympics: India’s hockey team enters home stretch by taking on its kryptonite, Australia
The Indian Express -

The last time India toured Australia for a Test series, in late 2022, it was to 'desensitise' the players against the Kookaburras. "To make ourselves understand that we are good enough to beat them when we play well,” then-coach Graham Reid had said. “We need to make sure our game is bulletproof.” The reason to use that expression is because, for a while now, Australia has been the Indian men's hockey team's Kryptonite. There was just an aura around them that somehow weakened India. Two results...

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