shes at two successive FIH events – bronze in the World League and silver in the Champions Trophy. But no player worth his salt and professional pride would like to be a serial bench-warmer. Yarmolenko opened the scoring in the 18th minute with his 30th international goal and added his seco. Oltmans has been in India for a fairly long time, and the team’s performance in his last assignment – the European tour – was decent. Also still in the top half of the men’s bracket are No. Ireland coach Martin O’Neill had warned about “some exceptionally good talent” in Georgia’s team and the draw appeared to prove him right. Some of the others present, which included Oltmans himself, have been part of his coaching and support staff, or have worked with him as selectors or government observers. Senior players gave their presentation along with the coaching staff. We also analyzed our performances at Azlan Shah, the three-nations after that and World League semifinals where we finished sixth out of 10. “Shikhar and Rohit, we know what they have done in the past together.