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2012 World Series Hockey.

History

2012 WSH better known as Bridgestone World Series Hockey, was the first season of the hockey tournament World Series Hockey, a professional league for field hockey in India. The tournament was to take place from 17 December 2011 to 22 January 2012 but later was postponed to 29 February 2012 The inaugral season of the WSH was won by Sher-e-Punjab by defeating Pune Strykers 5-2 in the final at Mahindra Hockey Stadium, Mumbai and thus became the first champions of WSH.Chandigarh Comets' drag-flicker Gurjinder Singh was named WSH Rockstar Player of the tournament 19 goals in 15 matches who also shared the golden stick with Pakistan national field hockeyteam|Pakistan's Syed Imran Warsi for 19 goals apiece.After 59 matches & 327 goals.

Format & Rules

All the matches are of 70 minutes each but instead of two halves, the games are divided into four quarters of 17-and-a-half minutes each to give more rest to players during a game. Each team can have a maximum of 25 registered players out of which 18 can play. Time-outs (2 minutes) can be called by the teams, once in each half although are not mandatory. There are video umpires in all games and video referrals can be only called by umpires either at their own or as requested by a team (one per match) for goal line decision only. Each team has five penalty shoot-outs where 5 players are nominated. Each player, with the ball on the 23 m line, the goalkeeper/defending player on or behind the goal‐line between the goal posts, starts with the umpire's signal and has a maximum of 8 seconds to score a goal with only the goal keeper defending the goal. A penalty stroke is awarded in case of intentional foul by the goal-keeper and used only in the knockout stage.

Competition

World Series Hockey will be a multi city franchise-based league with the players allocated to the teams based on the internationally accepted and practiced draft system. World Series Hockey consists of 8 teams representing 8 cities/states of India. The Event will be played in two phases over 34 days and consist of a total of 59 matches.

League Phase

Each team will play the other twice; home and away and thus will play 14 league matches; 7 home and 7 away. The League Phase will consist of 56 matches and will be played from the 29 February to 2 April. Points in the league phase were awarded as follows: 3 points for a win, 1 point each for a draw. Top four teams qualify for the semi-finals. If at the end of the league phase two or more teams have the same number of points, Then Goal difference,: Higher number of wins, Head to head record Etc.

Playoffs

The 4 teams with the best record after the league phase qualify for the playoffs. In the Semis, the No.1 team plays the No. 4 team, and the No. 2 team faces No. 3 team. The Final is played between the winners of each of the semis. The team which wins the Final are declared the Champions.

Venues

Following eight venues will host the matches of eight franchises on a home and away basis: Delhi, Mumbai, Pune, Bhopal, Jalandhar, Chandigarh, Bangalore and Chennai will host the matches of eight franchises on a home and away basis.

Dhyan Chand National Stadium, Delhi
Bangalore Hockey Stadium, Bangalore
Mayor Radhakrishnan Stadium, Chennai
PCMC Hockey Stadium, Pune
Mahindra Hockey Stadium, Mumbai
Sector 42 Stadium, Chandigarh
Surjeet Hockey Stadium, Jalandhar
Aishbagh Stadium, Bhopal

Originally, nine venues were selected and upgraded with floodlights, replay screens, and scoreboards but organisers decided not to have any matches in Hyderabad.

Captain & Coach

Team	Captain	Coach
Bhopal Badshahs	IND- Sameer Dad	IND- Vasudevan Bhaskaran
Chandigarh Comets	PAK-Rehan Butt	IND- Harendra Singh
Chennai Cheetahs	AUS-Brent Livermore	ESP- Jose Brasa
Delhi Wizards	PAK-Shakeel Abbasi	NED- Roelant Oltmans
Karnataka Lions	IND- Arjun Halappa	IND- Jude Felix
Mumbai Marines	IND-Adrian D'Souza	GER-Andrew Meredith
Pune Strykers	CAN-Ken Pereira	IND- Gundeep Singh
Sher-e-Punjab	IND-Prabhjot Singh	IND- Rajinder Singh

League Phase-56 Match

Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts
Chandigarh Comets	14	9	1	4	46	34	+12	28
Sher-e-Punjab	14	8	1	5	45	35	+10	25
Karnataka Lions	14	7	0	7	34	40	-6	21
Pune Strykers	14	6	3	5	41	42	-1	21
Delhi Wizards	14	6	1	7	36	37	-1	19
Chennai Cheetahs	14	6	1	7	41	43	-2	19
Bhopal Badshahs	14	5	2	7	32	37	-5	17
Mumbai Marines	14	4	1	9	32	39	-7	13

						Qualified for Semi-Finals
						Eliminated

SemiFinal

Season	SemiFinal
Season	Won	Result	Lost
2012 World Series Hockey	Sher-e-Punjab	4 – 1	Karnataka Lions

Season	SemiFinal
Season	Won	Result	Lost
2012 World Series Hockey	Pune Strykers	(4-4)3 - 2 Penalty Shoot-out	Chandigarh Comets

Final

Season	Final			Man of the Tournament
Season	Champions	Result	Runners-up	Man of the Tournament
2012 World Series Hockey	Sher-e-Punjab	5 – 2	Pune Strykers	IND- Gurjinder Singh (Chandigarh Comets) (19 goals in 15 matches)

Team'sPerformance

Team	Matches	Won	Drawn	Lost	For	Against	Win%	Best	Titles
Sher-e-Punjab	16	10	1	5	54	38	66.67%	Champions	1
Pune Strykers	16	7	3	6	47	51	53.85%	Runners-up	0
Chandigarh Comets	15	9	1	5	50	38	64.29%	Semi-finalists	0
Karnataka Lions	15	7	0	8	35	44	46.67%	Semi-finalists	0
Delhi Wizards	14	6	1	7	36	37	46.15%	5th of 8	0
Chennai Cheetahs	14	6	1	7	41	43	46.15%	6th of 8	0
Bhopal Badshahs	14	5	2	7	32	37	41.67%	7th of 8	0
Mumbai Marines	14	4	1	9	32	39	30.77%	8th of 8	0

Leading Goal Scorers

Most Goals
Player	Team	Goals
Gurjinder Singh	Chandigarh Comets	19
Syed Imran Warsi	Chennai Cheetahs	19
Len Aiyappa	Karnataka Lions	13
Deepak Thakur	Sher-e-Punjab	12
Gurpreet Singh	Pune Strykers	12
Vikramjeet Singh	[Delhi Wizards	12

Prizes

Team	States	Prize	Name & Awards	Prize Ind.
Sher-e-Punjab	Champions	Rs.4 Crores	Gurjinder Singh-19 Goal (WSH Rockstar)	Rs.1 Crores
Pune Strykers	Runners-up	Rs.2 Crores	Roshan Minj (Indian Super Star)	Rs.50 Lakhs
Chandigarh Comets	Semi-finalists	Rs.1 Crores	Gurjinder Singh & Imran Warsi, Golden Stick (Highest Goal Scorer 19-19)	Rs.25 Lakhs
Karnataka Lions	Semi-finalists	Rs.1 Crores	Shakeel Abasi,(Game Changer)	Rs.25 Lakhs
-----	-----	-----	Lalit Upadhiae, Rookie of the Year (Best emerging player under 21)	Rs.10 Lakhs

Cards

Total Cards

2	110	33	145

Discipline

Jarnail Singh Red card (Karnataka Lions)(Two Match Suspension),& Bikash Toppo (Pune Strykers),Rajpal Singh, (Delhi Wizards),Arjun Halappa (Karnataka Lions),Tariz Aziz (Sher-e-Punjab)(Each One Match Suspension).

Broadcast Rights

Country	Broadcaster
India	NEO Sports, NEO Cricket
Pakistan	GEO Super
Live Streaming (World Wide)	YouTube