Retirement talk follows Dan and Lee Chong Wei routinely and it even struck Lilyana Natsir — the Indonesian doubles great. The decision was taken after a three-day meeting of the Hockey India High Performance and Development Committee, which concluded today. Bharadwaj had to work hard to outmanoeuvre George 21-16, 20-22, 24-22 in a match that lasted an hour and three minutes here. Karolina Pliskova said that while she may appear stone-faced on the court there are plenty of emotions running through her veins. Dick Advocaat has told his players and Dutch supporters to forget Thursday’s 4-0 thrashing in France. Under him, India won a silver medal at the Champions Trophy last year for the first time in over thr. The radios are buzzing with the Glasgow club’s demolition of Kazakh side Astana and the World Championships week straddles the away leg which doesn’t end too bad at all. WFI blamed local organisers for not providing them good facilitiesfor Indian team’s preparations. The contest was 25-year-old Zhang’s best showing against the tournament’s top seed but she is now winless in five matches against Pliskova. at the removal of the Dutchman and said the “changing and chopping policy” will not do any good to the Indian team.