Indian midfielder Baljeet Kaur has expressed confidence within the ladies’s hockey squad forward of FIH World Cup 2026 Qualifiers right here, emphasising the crew’s “younger and speedy” composition as a key benefit for securing a spot in the principle event.

Because the crew gears up for the Qualifiers in Hyderabad, the 24-year-old Kaur is among the many gamers desirous to make an impression and assist India safe qualification to the Ladies’s FIH Hockey World Cup later this 12 months.

“Our purpose is to win and qualify for the World Cup. We need to carry out nicely and provides our greatest in order that we are able to convey a medal for the nation,” Kaur mentioned.

She additionally believes the present squad has the precise stability to attain one thing particular.

“There are a lot of younger and speedy gamers within the crew and it’s an excellent mixture. The circulate inside the group is sweet and the health stage is excessive,” she famous.

Additional reflecting on the preparations main as much as the event, Kaur expressed satisfaction with how the crew approached coaching.

“The camp went very nicely and the coaching classes have been good. We labored on completely different features, together with our capturing, and all the pieces progressed nicely,” she shared.

She additionally highlighted the areas she targeted on forward of the event.

“Earlier than coming to the camp, one in all my primary focus areas was enhancing my health, and I labored quite a bit on that through the coaching interval,” Kaur added.

Her journey in hockey started greater than a decade in the past in her village Kaka Kandiala in Punjab, when she was learning within the seventh normal. What started as curiosity quickly became a deep ardour for the game.

“I began taking part in hockey in 2012. My uncle’s daughter used to play hockey, and I might at all times ask her the place she was going early within the morning. She would inform me she was going to the bottom to observe, and that sparked my curiousity and made me need to begin taking part in as nicely,” Kaur recalled.