150 Indian players, including top stars from the current national team have signed on and received advanced payments to play in World Series Hockey (WSH).
Most of the players have signed 3-year contracts.
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Prabhjot Singh said, "I'm really excited about playing in the inaugural edition of World Series Hockey. It's a great initiative for the sport of hockey and I can't wait to play alongside the best hockey players from India and around the world"
The other star Indian players to participate in the tournament include ace drag-flicker Sandeep Singh, current captain Rajpal Singh, goalkeeper Bharat Chetri and emerging champion Yuvraj Walmiki, who dazzled at the recently concluded Asian Champions Challenge.
WSH also marks the comeback of former India captains Viren Rasquinha and Dhanraj Pillay.
The league will also provide a platform for fledging talents like Gurjinder Singh, Kangujam Chinglensana Singh, forward Victo Singh and the best player of the last National Games, SK Uthappa.
The WSH will be held from December 17, 2011 to January 22, 2012 and will involve 200 leading players -- Indian and international -- who will showcase their talent in 61 matches. It will be a multi-city franchise-based League with players being allocated to the teams based on the internationally accepted and practised 'draft' system.
Indian players signed for World Series Hockey
A B Cheeyanna
Abhishek Singh
Adam Sinclair
Adrian D'Souza
Aijub Ekka
Ajitesh Roy
Akashdeep Singh
Alden D'Souza
Amar Aiyamma
Amardeep Ekka (IOB)
Amardeep Ekka
Amit Gowda
Amit Kumar Prabhakar
Anand Tirkey
Ankit Gulllia
Anup Anthony
Arjun Antil
Arjun Halappa
Armaan Qureshi
Baljeet Singh
Baljinder Singh
Barkat Singh
Bharat Chikara
Bharat Chetri
Bikash Topo
Bikramjit Singh
Birendra Lakra (Air India)
Birendra Lakra
Bruno Lugun
C S Khalkho
Cariappa A D
Chinthakunta Santosh Kumar
Conroy Remedios
Damandeep Singh
Danish Mujtaba
Deep Mahendrabhai Patel
Deepak Kullu
Deepak Thakur
Devesh Chauhan
Devinder Singh
Dhananjay Mahadik
Dhanraj Pillay
Dharamvir Singh
Dinesh Ekka
Diwakar Ram
Errol D'Silva
G M Hariprasad
Gagandeep Singh
Gaurav Tokhi
Gauravjeet Singh
Gurbaj Singh
Gurjinder Singh
Gurpreet Singh
Gurpreet Singh Guri
Gursev Singh
Gurvinder Singh Chandi
Hamza Mujtaba
Hansraj Jangra
Harbir Singh
Harmanpreet Singh
Ignace Tirkey
Imran Khan
Inderjit Singh
Inocent Kullu
Jagdeep Dayal
Jarnail Singh
Jasjit Singh Kular
Jaspreet Singh
Jaswinder Singh
Jay Karan
John Topno
K Victo Singh
Kangujam Chinglensana Singh
Kangujam Suresh Singh
Karan Pal Singh
Karmjit Singh
Kiesham Roshan
Kuttappa AC
Lalit Kumar Upadhyay
Lovedeep Singh
Mandeep Antil
Mandeep Singh
Manjeet Kullu
Manoj Antil
Mathias Minz
Mohd. Amir Khan
Mohd. Sahir
Mrinal Choubey
N Senthil Kumar
Nagalingaswamy B
Narad Bahadur
Nikkin Thimmaiah C A
Nitin Kumar
Nitin Thimmaiah
Niyaz Rahim Mumtazur Rahim
P R Sreejesh
P T Rao
Poonacha M G
Prabhakar
Prabhdeep Singh (BPCL)
Prabhdeep Singh
Prabhjot Singh
Prabodh Tirkey
Pradhan Somanna
Pramod Kumar
Preetinder Singh
Rafeeq S M
Raghunath V R
Rajesh Kumar
Rajpal Singh
Ramandeep Singh
Ranjan Lakra
Ranjodh Singh
Ravipal
Roshan Minz
Rupinderpal Singh
S Arumugam
S K Uthappa
S V Sunil
Sameer Dad
Samir Baxla
Sanawar Ali
Sandeep Antil
Sandeep Singh (International)
Sandeep Singh (IOC)
Sandeep Singh (Air India)
Sankalp Raghav
Sardar Singh
Sarvanjit Singh
Shashi Topno
Sher Singh
Shivendra Singh
Simrandeep Singh
Simranjeet Singh
Sudhir Raju Dixit
Sukhjeet Singh
Sunil Yadav
Sunny Samuel
Tushar Khandker
Tyron Pereira
V S Vinaya
V.Raja
Vickram Kanth
Vikas Sharma
Vikram Ramkaval Yadav
Vinayak Bijwad
Viren Rasquinha
Vivek Gupta
William Xalxo
Yuvraj Walmiki
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