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CWG 2022 Men’s Hockey: Indian team thrash Canada

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 The Indian men’s hockey team came from the disappointment of a 4-4 draw against England provided a dominating display against Canada in their 3 rd Group match played at National Exhibition Centre on Wednesday. It was an aggressive start by the Indian team right from the word go putting enough pressure on the Canadian defense. After relentless attacks, India kept the pressure on the Canadian defense with successive penalty corners. Harmanpreet Singh converted a penalty corner in the 7 th minute. Varun Kumar produced a stunning long pass and Amit Rohidas shot it into a goal in the 10 th minute to give India a 2-0 lead. At the end of the first quarter, India led 2-0. The second quarter also saw the Indian team dominating Canada with their attacking play. Lalit Upadhyay scored from a brilliant rebound shot despite Candidan's goalkeeper making a good save to give India a 3-0 lead in the 20 th minute. Gurjant made a diving effort as Hardik entered inside D and passed it to Gurja...

CWG 2022 Women’s Hockey: Indian women’s team edge past Canada in a thriller

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 The Indian women’s hockey team showed their skills to edge past Canada in a must-win situation in the final Pool game played at National Exhibition Centre on Wednesday. It was an ideal start for the Indian team as they asked for a review before Salima Tete scored from a rebound shot after a good save by the Canadian goalkeeper. The Indian team kept the pressure on the Canadian defense as they did not allow their opponents to make circle penetrations. Canadian attackers tried to try, but Indian midfielders did a superb job. At the end of the first quarter, India led 1-0. The second quarter saw the Indian team dominate with circle penetrations. A superb pass by Lalremsaimi as Navneet Kaur left Candidan goalkeeper struggling in the 22 nd minute to give India a 2-0 lead. Canada made a strong comeback with a lovely goal via penalty corner by Stairs the next minute reducing the goal to 1. Canada put pressure on the Indian defense and kept the momentum going. At the end of the first...

Thomas Cup 2022 Day 2: Indian team seal the quarterfinals spot with another whitewash

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 The Indian men’s team produced another dominating performance as they whitewashed Canada in their second Group C tie of the Thomas Cup 2022 played at Impact Court Arena 2, Bangkok, Thailand on Monday. Kidambi Srikanth gave the Indian team an impressive start defeating Brian Young in three games. The Indian started off brightly before both players took alternate points till 8-8. Young took 3 points in succession to take an 11-8 lead at the interval. After the break, Srikanth leveled the score at 11-11 and put his opponent under pressure with brilliant smashes and drop shots. It was a closely fought affair between both these players as Young took the first game at 22-20. Brian Young started the 2 nd game on an aggressive note as the Indian committed lots of unforced errors. Yang also committed unforced errors to help Srikanth level the scores at 7-7. At the mid-game interval, Srikanth took an 11-9 lead. After the break, the Indian dominated the play and won the second game easi...