Indian group’s star hockey participant Rani Rampal has grow to be the primary lady within the sport to have a stadium named after her, in Rae Bareli. The MCF Rae Bareli has renamed the hockey stadium as ‘Rani’s Women Hockey Turf’. Rani shared images on her social media handles, the place she is seen interacting with the gamers and inaugurating the stadium alongside different workers members.

“Phrases appear too much less to precise my happiness and gratitude as I share that the MCF Raebareli has renamed the hockey stadium to “Rani’s Women Hockey Turf to honour my contribution to hockey,” Rani wrote on her Twitter deal with.

Expressing her gratitude additional, she stated, “It’s a proud and emotional second for me as I grow to be the primary lady hockey participant to have a stadium to my identify. I dedicate this to the Indian ladies’s hockey group and I hope this conjures up the following era of girls hockey gamers!” Rani made a comeback to the Indian group in the course of the tour of South Africa earlier this 12 months, when she was included in a 22-member squad.

Rani was returning to the squad after final taking part in towards Belgium within the FIH Ladies’s Hockey Professional League 2021-22, the place she received her 250th cap for India.

The 28-year-old had been coping with a damage because the Tokyo Olympics and was subsequently not noted of the World Cup and Commonwealth Video games 2022 squads.

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