Indian crew’s star hockey participant Rani Rampal has turn into the primary girl within the sport to have a stadium named after her, in Rae Bareli. The MCF Rae Bareli has renamed the hockey stadium as ‘Rani’s Girls Hockey Turf’. Rani shared photographs on her social media handles, the place she is seen interacting with the gamers and inaugurating the stadium alongside different workers members.

“Words seem too less to express my happiness and gratitude as I share that the MCF Raebareli has renamed the hockey stadium to “Rani’s Girls Hockey Turf to honour my contribution to hockey,” Rani wrote on her Twitter handle.

Expressing her gratitude further, she said, “It is a proud and emotional second for me as I turn into the primary girl hockey participant to have a stadium to my title. I dedicate this to the Indian girls’s hockey crew and I hope this evokes the subsequent era of ladies hockey gamers!” Rani made a comeback to the Indian team during the tour of South Africa earlier this year, when she was included in a 22-member squad.

Rani was returning to the squad after last playing against Belgium in the FIH Women’s Hockey Pro League 2021-22, where she won her 250th cap for India.

The 28-year-old had been dealing with a injury since the Tokyo Olympics and was subsequently left out of the World Cup and Commonwealth Games 2022 squads.

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