Hockey News
At 12th FIH World Cup 2010, New Delhi, India

Group B

England bt South Africa 6-4
Pakistan bt Spain 2-1

India l Australia 2-5

Goal Scored - Vikram Pillay (IND) 35', Rajpal Singh (IND) 53' and Liam De Young (AUS) 2', Glenn Turner (AUS) 9' PC & 43', Desmond Abbot (AUS) 26', Luke Doerner (AUS) 42' PC

Forgettable performance by Indians in their second match against Australia ... In this match our defense was in total disarray, we were doing stupid mistakes to gave penalty corners to Australians ... Also our goal-keeper Adrian D'Souza had a bad day ... He should at least stop couple goals from Australian but he also had his moments in the match with couple of good savings and also saved penalty stroke by Jaime Dwyer in late of the match.

Today our players did poor marking, played self-centric game, stopping and tapping were poor, no co-ordination between defense or forwards, had poor game plan to counter-attack Australian strategy, poor defending and poor goal-keeping ... Hoping lot more improvement in next important match against Spain.

FIH panel reduced Shivendra Singh's ban to 2 matches from 3, still very harsh penalty for unintentional foul where nobody hurt badly.