New Delhi: Hockey India Selection Committee has decided to prune down the list of Junior Women Core Group probables to 33 players during the two-day selection trials which concluded at the Aish Bagh Hockey Stadium and Mayur Park Stadium at Bhopal on 10 November.

Hockey India Selectors B.P Govinda, Savitry Purty and Surender Kaur alongwith Government Observer Harbinder Singh, Chief Coach Neil Hawgood and Coach Narinder Saini tested the fitness and performance of all players during the trials before pruning down the list of core probables to 33 in preparations for the FIH Junior Women World Cup 2013.

India has already qualified for FIH Junior Women World Cup 2013 by winning a silver medal at the recent Junior Women Asia Cup. The FIH Junior Women World Cup will be held in Germany during July 2013. The coaching camp as part of the preparations for the World Cup is already underway at SAI Centre, Bhopal which commenced on 27 October 2012.

List of 33 Probables is as under-

Goalkeepers:

1. Bigan Soy
2. Sanarik Chanu
3. Sukhmani Virk
4. Inderpreet Kaur

Defenders:

5. Apoorva Vishwarkarma
6. Sandeep Kaur
7. Sushila Chanu
8. Dibya Kerketta
9. Manjit Kaur
10. Navdeep

Midfielders:
11. Rukmani Dodray
12. Anju Dhiman
13. Nikki Pradhan
14. Manmeet Kaur
15. Renuka Yadav
16. Gurjit Kaur
17. Jyoti Sharma
18. Pooja Rani
19. Teena

Forwards:
20. Muthamma Paura
21. Surabhi Pradhan
22. Anima Minz
23. Pratibha Chaudhary
24. Jaswinder Kaur
25. Malkeet Kaur
26. Sabnam Lakra
27. Hardeep Kaur
28. Reena Khokhor
29. Ritusha Arya
30. Jyoti Gupta
31. Anu Bala
32. Neha Goyal
33. Navneet Kaur

By Indian Sports News Network