Last Updated: January 23, 2023, 09:59 IST
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Hockey India president Dilip Tirkey lamented the missed probabilities because the hosts misplaced to New Zealand 4-5 on penalties
Hockey India president Dilip Tirkey on Sunday rued that the hosts wasted probabilities galore throughout their sudden loss of life defeat within the crossover match towards New Zealand as they made a shock exit from the hockey World Cup right here.
India allowed New Zealand to come back again from two-goal lead twice in regulation time because the match ended 3-3 after 60 minutes. India finally misplaced 4-5 in sudden loss of life.
“We received lots of probabilities to win the match. We have been speaking that penalty corners are essential to win matches, however we wasted one after the opposite,” Tirkey, also a former captain and one of the best defenders of his time, said in a video on his Twitter handle.
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“After that, we got the chance to win in the penalty shootout. We got two chances. Our goalkeepers saved twice in sudden death and we had the chance to win, that also we wasted,” he mentioned with out criticizing the group.
Tirkey, probably the most capped India participant with 412 worldwide matches, mentioned the group has learnt rather a lot from the defeat.
“I hope that we do properly within the subsequent match.”
India play Japan on January 26 in the inconsequential ninth to 16th place classification match.
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