CHENNAI: This is where the journey begins. World No. 4 India have earned their stripes as an Asian powerhouse with their consistent results and the sheer volume of top-flight match exposure in the recent past, but when it comes to the Olympic dream, qualification is never a walk in the park.
The Hangzhou Asian Games offer a golden opportunity to avoid going through qualifiers, and India will leave no stone unturned to try and come up trumps there. The Asian Champions Trophy thus serves as an apt way to gauge their preparations, and as skipper Harmanpreet Singh said, will be a “litmus test” of where they stand
