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| Full name | Sandeep Singh Saini | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Born |
27 February 1986 Shahabad, Haryana, India | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Height | 1.84 m (6 ft 0 in)[1] | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Playing position | Fullback | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Senior career | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Years | Team | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 2013 | Mumbai Magicians | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 2014–2015 | Punjab Warriors | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 2016 | Ranchi Rays | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| National team | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Years | Team | Caps | Goals | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 2004–2012 | India | 186 | (138) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Medal record
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| Last updated on: 21 January 2016 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Sandeep Singh (born 27 February 1986) is an Indian professional field hockey player from Haryana and an ex-captain of the Indian national hockey team.[2] He generally features as a full back and is a penalty corner specialist for the team. He has been dubbed "Flicker Singh" in the media for his specialization of the drag-flick, one of the fastest in the world.
Singh holds a DSP rank in the Haryana Police. He has been elected as MLA in 2019 from Pehowa constituency in Kurukshetra, Haryana from Bharatiya Janata Party. He served as the Sports Minister of Haryana and resigned from the post on 1 January 2023, after the Haryana police registered a case against him for a sexual assault complaint.[3][4]
- ^ "CWG Melbourne: Player's Profile". Archived from the original on 24 April 2012. Retrieved 15 January 2013.
- ^ "Sandeep Singh named captain of the hockey team". 10 January 2009.
- ^ "Former hockey player Sandeep Singh named Haryana sports minister". Bridge.in. 17 November 2019.
- ^ "Haryana: 10 ministers take oath in Manohar Lal Khattar's 17-day-old cabinet". thestatesman. 14 November 2019.