NEW DELHI, Aug. 7 -- As the Indian hockey team gears up for a gruelling stretch that includes both the World Cup (Aug 15-30) and Asian Games (Sept 19-Oct 4), a glaring tactical blind spot has forced a rethink inside the management. The issue? A vulnerability against the suffocating physical man-to-man marking systems favoured by European heavyweights. But the team is confronting the issue head on. The first half of the 2025-26 FIH Pro League season proved the same. At the home leg in Rourkela in February, India lost all four games against Belgium and Argentina (two each). In Hobart in the same month, the Harmanpreet Singh-led side performed better, suffering one outright loss, two shootout losses and one shootout win. But the Craig Fulton-c...