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Hockey

Posted: Wed Nov 08, 2017 1:46 pm
by Peregrine
News from Australia :

Australia score nine in Pakistan's worst-ever defeat

Pakistan were ripped apart by hosts Australia in their first match of the International Festival of Hockey at Melbourne's State Netball and Hockey Centre.

The 1-9 defeat is Pakistan's worst-ever in its hockey history. Pakistan's previous worst came when Holland defeated Pakistan 9-2 at the 2006 Champions Trophy in Terrassa, Spain. The team are a record four-time World Champions.

Australia, the reigning world champions, dominated the proceedings almost throughout the game.

Blake Govers, who scored a hat-trick, took two goals off penalty corners and a mesmerising field goal. Aaron Kleinschmidt had a brace for Australia.

The Kookaburras' first goal came in the eighth minute, off their first penalty corner, when an excellent top of the circle drill baffled Pakistan's defence and Hayward put his team ahead.

Within four minutes, Whetton doubled the advantage. After robbing a defender, he entered the circle from the left, immediately swerved and rattled the board.

The first half's last goal came off a wonderful Whetton assist. His inch perfect ball from the circle's top beat a crowded defence and Kleinschmidt easily scored from the middle of the scoring area.

In the first 30 minutes, Pakistan had just one open play attempt, when Arslan Qadir's full stretch effort eluded the target. They also wasted one penalty corner with the score at 3-0 at the end of the first half.

Two minutes into the second half, Abubakr brought a glimmer of hope for Pakistan when his forceful flick went high into the net off Pakistan's second penalty corner.

However, within a minute, the Aussies restored the three goal lead: Kleinschmidt had his second of the evening with a superb first time reverse-hander from the left of circle's edge which went into the roof of the far net.

Govers made it 5-1 with a penalty corner conversion with a flat forceful push.

Though Australia had most of the exchanges in the third quarter of the game, it still was the green shirts' best 15 minutes of the game. They had open play opportunities and a couple of penalty corners, and scored off one of them.

Pakistan's sloppy defending seemed to be theme of the day but in the last quarter, it completely melted away and conceded four more goals.

Arunasalam dived to avail a parallel pass sent from left before Govers scored the most memorable goal of the day.

Standing on the left side of the circle, the body feinted the defence and netted the ball, finding the narrowest of the narrow gaps between the near post and the net minder, all in one movement.

Soon, a reverse shot by Govers, across the face of the goal, was well flicked into the goal by Wickham.

Govers completed the tally and also his hat-trick in the last minute when his hard low push went past goalkeeper Amjad's left pad, off another penalty corner.

In the four-nation event, Pakistan play Japan — which held a strong New Zealand side 1-1 in their last match — on Thursday.

Scorers:

Australia: Blake Govers (3), Aaron Kleinschmidt (2), Jeremy Hayward, Jake Whetton, Kiran Arunasalam, Tom Wickham

Pakistan: Abubakr Mahmood

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Re: Hockey

Posted: Wed Nov 08, 2017 8:51 pm
by sbajwa
India (Junior Team) vs USA (22-0)

This is how you score 22 goals. But record of 1932 olympics still not beaten (24-1)

Hockey

Posted: Sun Nov 12, 2017 9:52 pm
by Peregrine
Pakistan finish last in hockey tournament after losing 2-1 to Japan

Japan thumped Pakistan 2-1 at the four-nation International Festival of Hockey at Melbourne's State Netball and Hockey Centre on Sunday.

With their second consecutive loss against Japan, the Green Shirts finished the tournament in the fourth spot, a press release by the Pakistan Hockey Federation (PHF) said.

In the first match, Pakistan received their worst-ever defeat in hockey against Australia when they lost 1-9 to the hosts. On Saturday, New Zealand beat Pakistan 3-2 in what was the latter's third successive defeat.

The match for the third place started at an electric pace with three shots on the goal within the first four minutes.

Lapses in Pakistan's defence gave Japan ample opportunities to strike in the first quarter. Ajaz Ahmed scored the first goal for Pakistan by firing it in the small gap between the goal keeper and the near post in the 13th minute.

Pakistan's joy was short-lived however, as Japan's Kenta Tanaka came back with vengeance in the very next minute to equalise the score.

In the third quarter, Pakistan missed three good chances to score. In the last three minutes, Kazuma Murata struck the final goal to confirm that Pakistan would finish the tournament with a wooden spoon.

Finally, Pakistan missed the golden chance to put it even via a penalty corner in the last couple of minutes.

The final of the tournament is being played between hosts Australia and New Zealand.

Scorers : Pakistan: Ajaz Ahmed (13') Japan: Kenta Tanaka (14') and Kazuma Murata (57')

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Re: Hockey

Posted: Mon Nov 04, 2019 5:16 am
by Muns
India men's hockey team thumps Russia to book Tokyo Olympics ticket

https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/spo ... 870348.cms

Thrashing to Russia by 7-1.