Last Updated: January 28, 2023, 22:11 IST
India males’s hockey crew finishes ninth in FIH World Cup (Twitter/@TheHockeyIndia)
With round 60 per cent ball possession, the house aspect had 14 pictures at purpose as towards 9 by South Africa.
A dominant India scored twice within the first and fourth quarters to beat South Africa 5-2 in a classification match and end joint ninth within the FIH Men’s World Cup right here on Saturday.
World quantity six India earned six penalty corners within the match and scored one from them whereas South Africa, ranked 14th, obtained three PCs with out changing any one in every of them. India had 31 circle penetrations in whole whereas South Africa had 22.
With round 60 per cent ball possession, the house aspect had 14 pictures at purpose as towards 9 by South Africa.
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Abhishek, who was named participant of the match, opened the scoring for India within the fifth minute earlier than captain Harmanpreet Singh struck from his drag flick within the twelfth minute.
The second quarter didn’t yield any purpose from both aspect although India stored on attacking and made a number of circle penetration.
India, who led 2-0 at half time, had 15 circle penetration as towards eight by South Africa on the breather.
In the third quarter, Amit Rohidas was proven a yellow card and India needed to play one man brief for 5 minutes.
But as soon as Rohidas got here again, India scored a purpose within the final minute of the third quarter via Shamsher Singh (forty fifth).
The South Africans did higher within the second half as they made extra circle penetration than the primary half-hour.
The fourth quarter produced 4 targets — two from either side.
India’s fourth purpose got here within the forty ninth minute from a tremendous crew effort. Off a Raj Kumar Pal go, Jarmanpreet Singh despatched a low cross from close to the fitting aspect which Akashdeep merely tapped in.
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But just some seconds later, South Africa scored their first purpose of the match via Mvimbi Samkelo (forty ninth), who managed an extended scoop from a teammate contained in the Indian ‘D’ after which fired a strong shot previous India custodian PR Sreejesh.
Sukhjeet was suspended for 5 minutes within the fiftieth minute after getting a yellow card for a foul and India had been one man down. But South Africa didn’t capitalise on this.
Sukhjeet returned to attain India’s fifth purpose within the 58th minute. Akashdeep was concerned within the purpose as his reverse shot rebounded from the South Africa goalkeeper and Sukhjeet was on the proper place to slam the ball house.
South Africa earned a penalty stroke with only one minute left within the match after Sreejesh fouled Cassiem Mustaphaa within the Indian circle. Mustaphaa himself stepped up and scored from the spot because the Birsa Munda Stadium noticed India win for the ultimate time on this World Cup.
“We haven’t thought that we are going to end like this (at joint ninth). But now we have not misplaced a single match on this World Cup (misplaced to New Zealand in a penalty shootout after a 3-3 draw). Except for the third and fourth quarters (when India conceded a purpose every) towards New Zealand, now we have performed effectively,” captain Harmanpreet Singh stated.
“We could have done better in those two quarters against New Zealand. We created a lot of opportunities (to score) and we also defended well.” Harmanpreet stated it was a “good studying” for him.
“I will keep more focus and improve in future. Whatever weakness we have found out in this tournament we will try to fix before the next major tournament. There will be rest for 9-12 days and then we have to be at the national camp.” In the sooner matches of the day, Argentina thrashed Wales 6-0 to share the ninth spot with India, whereas Malaysia beat Japan 3-2 to finish their marketing campaign at joint thirteenth together with France, who emerged 4-2 winners over Chile.
Wales and South Africa completed at joint eleventh whereas Japan and Chile took the joint final (joint fifteenth) place.
India had completed ninth in 1998 and 2014 additionally. They had completed tenth in 1990 and 2002, eleventh in 2006 and twelfth in 1986.
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