New face to head Hockey – SSP Kamal Pushpakumara

SSP Kamal Pushpakumara will be contesting for the post of President at the upcoming hockey elections with the vision of making Sri Lanka one of the best hockey playing nationals in Asia. The Hockey elections will be held via video conference on the 31st of May.

A Senior Superintendent of Police, Pushpakumara has a few tricks up his sleeve in order to make Sri Lanka a force to be reckoned with in the region in hockey.

A former First Class cricketer, SSP Pushpakumara also represented Police in Hockey and made several overseas tours. Sri Lanka won the Police Cricket World Cup in Worcestershire in England under his captaincy.

One of his main plans to improve the game in the country is to increase the number of kids playing the game by reaching out to new schools to join the game and sustaining them in the sport without giving up halfway through.

Improving the infrastructure at grassroots levels, making the role of umpires and technical support professional are other areas that have been looked at in a bid to create interest and make  improvements in the game.  Virtually, this can be termed as the short term goal. Forming an Elite Pool comprising 100 children from the age group of 16 to 19 to undergo a long term training program targeting future international events and developing infrastructure around the country are among his long term plans.