Updated On: 14 January, 2013 09:21 AM IST | | IANS
Can Hockey India League (HIL) change the lifestyle of hockey players similar to cricketers who found an El Dorado in the Indian Premier League?
Not yet — the money involved in the HIL, beginning today, is nowhere near the mindboggling figures of the IPL, still it is good enough to motivate the Indian hockey players to improve their stick work. The players, who are paid a pittance for donning the national colours, were traded in big-time dollars at the auction last month.

Jamie Dwyer