According to sources, John became heavily involved in team selections and added six players to the squad for India’s Europe tour last month against Oltmans’ wishes. This is the fourth consecutive year the Brit has taken pole at Monza which is widely regarded as the fastest circuit in the F1 calendar. Those results, coupled with the team’s inability to beat the top nations, made Oltmans’ position untenable, according to Hockey India. It’s 20 years since Peter Rasmussen won the world title defeating an Asian in this very city. “We have good attacking players but we need someone in the middle of the park who can spray the passes, switch the play quickly and play at a tempo that Gareth likes. ted him playing for Liverpool but not Brazil, his failure to force an exit has left him in an unexpected limbo. Sindhu adds another painful memory to the stadium where she couldn’t win the Commonwealth Games gold. The strategy paid off as she broke Pliskova in her first two service games to take a 3-1 lead and captured the first set with an emphatic overhead smash. Hockey India selection committee chairman Harbinder Singh too vouched for John and said the Australian has everything in him to produce results. the rest of the season and is expected back, probably on Thursday, after Brazil’s World Cup qualifier in Colombia.