India–Pakistan field hockey test series

India and Pakistan have played test series from 1978 to 2006 as part of their long standing rivalry in field hockey. They played eight test series in this span out of which Pakistan won six, India won one and one was drawn. Out of 52 matches played Pakistan won 25, India won 16 and 11 were drawn. The goal aggregation so far is Pakistan 124 - 104 India). In 1998, each country hosted four matches out of which Pakistan won four, India won three and one was drawn.^[1] The last was played in 2006 with three matches in each nation. Pakistan won three matches while India won one and two were drawn.^{[citation needed]}

Indo-Pak test series of field hockey was expected to restart from 2013 as declared by Hockey India.^[2] In 2004 test series both India and Pakistan used a foreign coach for the first time. Gehard Rach of Germany was coach for India while Roelant Oltmans of Netherlands was coach for Pakistan.^{[citation needed]}