Hockey News
At 2010 Sultan Azlan Shah Hockey Tournament, Ipoh, Malaysia

Monday 10th May 2010
India bt Australia 4-3

Goal Scored - Tushar Khandekar (IND) 19' and 32', Rajpal Singh (IND) 21', Shivendra Singh (IND) 61' and Trent Mitton (AUS) 36', Christopher Ciriello (AUS) 37' PC, Mark Paterson (AUS) 70'

In the beginning Australia penetrated Indian circle few times , India were lucky as once ball hit the post but our defenders and goalie were not giving much space for Australians in the circle ... Then Indians started with counter-attacks and were controlling the pace of the match ... We scored 2 goals in 3 minutes to take control then Tushar scored another opportunist goal in dying minutes of first half ... Sarwanjit Singh missed couple of sitter otherwise we would take much bigger lead ... But after long time we take 3-0 lead at end of the first half ... In second half Australians started attack from first minute ... Mitton scored field goal in second minute and on next minute Australians earned their first penalty corner and scored their 2nd goal through Ciriello ... After that Australians were continuously attacking Indian goal ... How much they were controlling the match at that time simply show from stats that we first-time managed to penetrate Australian circle in second half after 21 mins ... We scored fourth field goal from Tushar and Shivendra combination in 61 mins ... Australians kept attacking and scored last goal when 33 seconds were remaining.

This is our first win over Australia in last seven year ... Tushar Khandkar declared Man of the match but Sreejesh was also very good at goal-line ... Spirited performance from us to beat Aussies ... We need to improve on controlling the game/ ball after taking big lead ... We almost awarded match to Australia in first 20-25 mins of second half ... Both teams earned 3 penalty corners each, we still struggling with variations but good to see our players scoring lots of opportunist goals.