Monday, September 12, 2011

Hockey News
At Asian Champions Trophy, Ordos, China

Final
India bt Pakistan 4-2 (0-0)

India won the inaugural Asian Champions trophy With superb performance by goalkeeper S Sreejesh in penalty shoot-out ... He made two crucial save in penalty shoot-out ... Rajpal Singh, Danish Mujtaba, Yuvraj Walmiki and Sarvanjit Singh scored for India in the penalty shootout while Muhammad Rizwan and Waseem Ahmed scored for Pakistan ... India started badly in penalty shootout when Pakistan goalkeeper Imran Shah saved the shot from Gurwinder Singh Chandi but Sreejesh responded with a saving Haseem Abdul Khan's shot ... Then on third shot again Sreejesh made crucial save on shot from Shafqat Rasool.

In the match both teams had opportunities to finished match early ... Pakistan earned seven penalty corners to India's one but they failed to beat the Indian defence and the goalkeeper Sreejesh ... Pakistan started with more attacking game but our defence stood stong importantly young V Raghunath ... Both teams played fast pacd match but nobody managed to score in full-time or extra-time.

As per report, Pakistan's Dutch head coach Michel Henricus Maria was constantly abusing Indian players from the roof of the stadium ... Whenever there was an infringement from the Indian side, he used the 'F' word liberally and whenever the umpires blew against India, he hollered 'Thank You'.

Good start for Indian coach Nobbs to win title in the first tournament with young Indian side ... But still nothing to read from this performance, we need to improve lot to match against Europeans and Australian sides ... Now our first major task in qualifying for 2012 London Olympics.

Indian women finished on 4th position after losing to Japan 2-3 in extra-time ... At one-time Indian women were leading 2-0 before losing that lead.

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