Asian Games: Harmanpreet hits four as India record biggest-ever win over Pakistan in hockey | Asian Games 2023 News
The win marked India’s biggest-ever conquer the arch-rivals and secured them a spot within the semifinals of the boys’s hockey competitors.
Harmanpreet went all out towards Pakistan, scoring within the eleventh, seventeenth, thirty third, and thirty fourth minutes.
Varun Kumar contributed with two objectives within the forty first and 54th minutes whereas Mandeep Singh (eighth), Sumit (thirtieth), Samsher Singh (forty sixth), and Lalit Kumar Upadhyay (forty ninth) too added their names to the scoresheet.
Pakistan managed to cut back the margin with objectives from Muhammad Khan within the thirty eighth minute and Abdul Rana within the forty fifth minute however India managed the sport for almost all of their penultimate pool match.
This was the one hundred and eightieth match between the 2 groups and the 8-goal margin win was the biggest-ever within the historical past of India-Pakistan hockey.
India’s earlier greatest victory margin was 7-1 towards Pakistan registered in 2017.
Pakistan’s 7-1 win within the last of 1982 Asian Video games in New Delhi was their greatest win towards India.
India, thus, exacted revenge of that humiliating loss 41 years in the past although Saturday’s match.
India collected 12 factors from 4 consecutive wins to remain on high of the pool. India will play Bangladesh on October 2 of their final Pool A match.
India took the lead when Abhishek made a nice activate the left facet into the opponent’s placing circle and his go was deflected into objective within the eighth minute by Mandeep.
Pakistan made some threatening strikes and earned their first penalty nook within the eleventh minute however India goalkeeper Krishan Bahadur Pathak was upto the duty.
India doubled their lead within the 11 minute after they have been awarded a penalty stroke and Harmanpreet made no mistake.
Harmanpreet scored his second objective and sixth of the match within the seventeenth minute by changing India’s first penalty nook of the match with an correct drag-flick.
Pakistan attacked principally from the left facet however didn’t get a transparent shot on the Indian objective.
Pakistan earned their second penalty nook within the twenty eighth minute however didn’t get previous veteran Indian goalkeeper PR Sreejesh.
Simply seconds earlier than half-time, Sumit struck with a fierce reverse hit. The Pakistanis went for a assessment however misplaced and trailed 0-4 on the midway mark.
India made it 5-0 three minutes after the change of ends with Harmanpret changing one other penalty stroke after the ball hit a Pakistani participant’s foot.
Initially, the referee gave a penalty nook however India efficiently reviewed for a penalty stroke.
It was a rout for Pakistan as India earned three back-to-back penalty corners and Harmanpreet struck his fourth objective of the day with a nice drag flick. Varun, Shamsher and Lalit too joined the social gathering with area objectives within the forty first, forty sixth and forty ninth minutes.
Varun discovered the web for the second time within the day when he transformed a penalty nook six minutes from the ultimate hooter.
(With inputs from PTI)
