There was delight at Surbiton Hockey Club, based in Long Ditton, when all six of their Olympic hopefuls were selected for Beijing.

Richard Alexander, Matt Daly, Ben Hawes, Ben Marsden, Rob Moore and James Tindall were officially named in the Team GB squad of 16 for Beijing by the British Olympic Association yesterday (Tuesday) morning at 9.30am, the most players from any one club ever to make a Great Britain Olympic squad.

All six had already been told in strict secrecy the previous Friday after having had their last chance to book a place in Beijing when they played a one-off test match against New Zealand in Holland on Wednesday when chosen from the 22-strong Great Britain training squad to travel to Nijmegen to play the world's tenth-ranked hockey nation, whose assistant coach is the former Surbiton South African overseas' star Greg Nicol.

The Brits, who assume England's world eighth-ranking place, are one of 12 nations to have qualified for Beijing, where they are in the other six-team pool to the Kiwis.

GB won 1-0 on Wednesday evening with a spectacular individual goal scored by Tindall from open play in the 24th minute when he eluded two tacklers on the left hand side of the circle, then popped the ball over the stick of a third before volleying it high into the net.