The Indian hockey team is aiming to win the forthcoming FIH Women's Nations Cup in order to advance to the Pro League, which, in the opinion of head coach Janneke Schopman, will give her team the ideal prep for the Asian Games in 2023 and the upcoming 2024 Summer Olympics in Paris.

The coaches of the Indian men's and women's hockey teams, Graham Reid and Janneke Schopman, were chosen as the FIH Coaches of the Year for their respective divisions on Thursday. Reid has won prize twice in a row, whereas ex-India coach Sjoerd Marijne was the Women's Coach of the Year last year.

Sometimes as sports journalists we tend to forget, why we entered this field; after working all these years, that love for sports waned, and the rat race for numbers took over. So this diary is an attempt to rekindle that love and talk about what's good, bad, and ugly in Indian sport.