It will be the first time the two sides will be meeting since the Kookaburras beat India for the gold medal at the Commonwealth Games in Birmingham in August.
Our target is to win the gold medal at the Commonwealth Games. The rest will depend on our performances: Surender
England took the lead through Isabella Petter in the ninth minute before Vandana equalised for India in the 28th minute.
India and USA are once again set to lock horns in the second match of the tie on Wednesday.
India's men's & women's hockey teams have flown out to Belgium to compete in the FIH Pro Hockey league which will give them enough game time ahead of the mega event.
The Indian women's team is comfortably placed at the third spot in the FIH Pro League table with 22 points in eight games. As of now, they are just behind table toppers Argentina (38 points) and the Netherlands in second place (26 points).
The experienced goalkeeper was asked to step in as captain in place of the team's captain Rani Rampal, who is recovering from an injury in Bengaluru.
Olympic Bronze Medalist Vivek Sagar Prasad to captain the squad and defender Sanjay will shoulder the duties of vice-captain; India will begin the campaign on 24 November with their opening match against France.
Gurjit Kaur (Women) and Harmanpreet Singh (Men) fetched 'Player of the Year' honour in their respective categories.
The Odisha government is the official sponsor of the Indian Hockey Teams since 2018.
Kaushik, who guided the Indian men's team to 1998 Asiad gold medal in Bangkok, was 66 and is survived by his son and wife.
The oxygen saturation level of the 66-year-old, a member of the 1980 Moscow Olympics gold-medal-winning Indian team, keeps fluctuating, according to his family.
In January, the Indian women's team had toured Argentina where they played seven matches against their junior, 'B' and the senior team, ranked No. 2 in the world.
Deepika (40th minute) and Gagandeep Kaur (55th) led India's fight back after Chile had taken the lead twice.
Kindo, a full back in his playing days, was a member of the team that won the lone World Cup for India in 1975 in Kuala Lumpur.
Having been in the national camp for over four months now amid the Covid-19 pandemic, Lalit feels the core group has improved in fitness levels especially in comparison to when they began the camp in August.
In the four years since making her debut as an 18-year-old against Australia, Rashmita has only been able to play two more tournaments for the country.
Since returning to the national coaching camp in August after a six-week break, the core group has been working towards achieving their previous form and match-fitness.
Karkera was part of the Indian team that won bronze in the 2017 Hockey World League Final and was part of the team that witnessed Asia Cup success in Dhaka in 2017.
Having had time to address a variety of key areas, Gursahibjit believes that physical strength plays an important role for an international striker.
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