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Salma to meet hockey players tomorrow

Singer-actor Salma Agha, who has offered to hold a series of fund raising concerts for the Indian hockey players, will tomorrow visit the Balewadi Sports Complex.

New Delhi: Singer-actor Salma Agha, who has offered to hold a series of fund raising concerts for the
Indian hockey players, will tomorrow visit the Balewadi Sports Complex where the World Cup preparatory camp for the national team will resume. The 48-year-old Salma will meet the players, who have agreed to join practice after a five-day deadlock with the federation ended in an amicable solution today, and will present a hockey stick to each of them as a goodwill gesture. Salma earlier said that she was planning to perform in concerts across the country to raise money for the Indian hockey players, who were boycotting the national camp to protest non-payment of their dues. She will also wish luck to the Indian players for the forthcoming FIH World Cup to be held here from February 28-March 13. Earlier, the biggest crisis to hit Indian hockey was today resolved after a compromise deal was worked out between the game`s administrators and the striking players who have been promised an immediate disbursement of Rs one crore. PTI