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However, there will be no matches on April 6 as it a polling day. A total of 12 teams will take part in the tournament, which will be organised on a league-cum-knockout basis with two pools. The top two teams in each pool will qualify for the semi-finals.
All matches will be hosted on the newly-laid Astro-Turf, with the summit clash on April 9 being presided over by International Hockey Federation and Indian Olympic Association president Narinder Batra. Batra will also inaugurate the CSS Baskaran High Performance Hockey Academy at the same time.
Olympian V Baskaran, the Director of Hockey at the Centre for Sports Science (CSS), will be the organising secretary for the competition while Moghul Mohammed Muneer, a FIH world-panel technical official, will be the tournament director.
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