The Netherlands have been at the forefront of developing handball over the past two decades in every discipline – in indoor and beach handball just as well as in wheelchair handball as, over the past few years, the Dutch Handball Association (NHV) made serious strides in developing a successful wheelchair handball team.

With a large pool of potential players, it was logical for India to create their wheelchair handball team, just in time for the inaugural edition of the IHF Four-a-Side Wheelchair Handball World Championship, with 10 players slated to make history at Egypt 2022.
 
The team was formed this year, but the players have plenty of experience in other sports, like wheelchair basketball or wheelchair badminton, sports that have been getting more exposure than handball in India over the last decades.

Wheelchair handball has been getting more and more popular throughout the whole world in the past 15 years, in different countries with different backgrounds. The countries where indoor or beach handball is popular have been at the forefront of the adoption of the new discipline, as highlighted by several countries in Europe.