Published By: Ritayan Basu
Last Updated: May 19, 2023, 18:10 IST
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Men’s Junior Asia Cup 2023 Pool A has Taiwan, India, Japan, Pakistan and Thailand, whereas Pool B has Oman might be joined by Bangladesh, South Korea, Malaysia and Uzbekistan
Archrivals India and Pakistan have been grouped into the identical Pool within the 10-team Men’s Junior Asia Cup 2023 to be performed at Salalah, Oman from May 23 to June 1. They will conflict in a much-anticipated encounter on May 27 in a Pool-A match.
The finest younger Asian males’s hockey groups will compete within the high occasion for junior males within the continent for the title and the three spots up for grabs for the upcoming FIH Junior Hockey Men’s World Cup 2023, to be performed in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia.
The ten taking part groups have been break up into two swimming pools, with Pool A comprising Taiwan, India, Japan, Pakistan and Thailand. In Pool B hosts Oman might be joined by Bangladesh, South Korea, Malaysia and Uzbekistan.
Each staff within the pool stage will play the opposite 4 groups of their pool as soon as.
The high two groups in each swimming pools will qualify for the semifinals, whereas the groups in third and fourth positions will compete for the 5-8 place classification. The groups ending in fifth place in each swimming pools will go head-to-head to keep away from ending in tenth place.
The dropping semifinalists will play within the bronze medal match, with the 2 finalists and the bronze medalists qualifying for the FIH Junior Hockey World Cup 2023. Malaysia, as hosts, have already certified for the World Cup, so if Malaysia enter the semifinals of the Junior Asia Cup, all the opposite three groups making it to the last-four stage will achieve entry into the World Cup as effectively.
The FIH Junior Hockey Men’s World Cup 2023 might be performed in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia from 5-16 December 2023. Malaysia have certified because the host of the competitors.
Belgium, France, Germany, Netherlands and Spain have certified from Europe because the groups that had been categorised within the top-5 on the EuroHockey Junior Championship 2022. Australia and New Zealand have additionally certified by way of the Oceania Junior World Cup Qualifiers 2022. South Africa and Egypt are the qualifiers from Africa ending as the highest two groups on the Junior Africa Cup 2023. Argentina, Canada and Chile are the three qualifiers from Pan America. The three high groups from Asia will full the complete set of sixteen groups that may compete for the title on the FIH Junior Hockey Men’s World Cup 2023.
In Salalah, the Indian junior males’s staff will begin its marketing campaign in opposition to Chinese Taipei on May 24 and can tackle Japan on the subsequent day. After a day of relaxation, India will conflict with Pakistan on May 27 after which wrap up their marketing campaign in Pool A with a match in opposition to Thailand on May 28.
(This story has not been edited by News18 employees and is printed from a syndicated news company feed – IANS)
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