![]() This is India's first match on the North pitch, which might explain the PC wobbles. This sucker punch has just summed up a surreal Sunday at the Games for India.Ĥ:30 p.m. Sreejesh takes a moment inside the net to catch his breath. He checks his run, feints to the left and then wallops the ball past Birendra Lakra. Sreejesh comes out to deny Tim Brand, as a careless India are unlocked by a superb lofted pass from deep inside Australia territory, but Brand sees him coming. INA FASSBENDER/AFP via Getty ImagesĤ:23 p.m. Mandeep Singh looks on during India's match against Australia. It's a marginal call, with the ball striking Surender Kumar, with Sreejesh diving behind him, but the video umpire reckons there's no certain way to confirm that Sreejesh would have saved it, in which case it would have been an Australia PC. Any hopes of a fightback are snuffed out with the third quarter still on, as Australia earn a penalty stroke. He comes in and dinks a slap into the net.Ĥ:10 p.m. ![]() Just before the second quarter ends, Eddie Ockenden deliberately runs across the young Indian in clear view of the umpire standing behind him, and that gives Dilpreet a green card. Young Dilpreet extracts a bit of revenge from the Aussies. That last shot is also called the Tomahawk, a term coined in Australia, and Joshua Beltz's goal is a perfect illustration why.ģ:54 p.m. Unforgiving drag flicks, a firm forehand on the run, and a reverse-hit that gives Sreejesh no chance. India have played their role in it too, with soft turnovers, poor halting off short corners, and indifferent decision-making inside the opposition circle, where they actually match Australia for numbers for most of the game, but rarely do enough with the ball.Īustralia, the top-ranked team, have shown the full range of goals in the meantime. Before half-time, Australia have made this into a no-contest. Surely 1-0 between such good teams isn't a mountain too high.ģ:33 p.m. ![]() Minutes later, Australia get their first PC, and even though the first shot is saved by first rusher Amit Rohidas, the team in yellow crowd the Indian half and when a loose ball falls to a player, he smashes it hard and at an angle across Sreejesh. India's first penalty corner (PC) sees the goal ruled out, as Harmanpreet Singh fails to take the first shot, and then ends up dragging his reverse-hit too high, even though it hits the roof of the net.
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