Azlan Shah: India thrash Canada 7-3 to enter final

IPOH (Malaysia): Striker Mandeep Singh scored a hat-trick as India outplayed Canada 7-3 to go into the general of the Sultan Azlan Shah Cup hockey tournament on Wednesday. In the summit clash, they're going to face South Korea, who defeated Malaysia 2-1 within the ultimate match of the day.

A 3rd win each and every for India and South Korea took their issues tally to 10 apiece, with India ahead on goal difference. At six issues from 4 matches, third-placed Malaysia now can not chase the top two groups at the leaderboard.

After a leisure day, the round-robin league will finish on Friday when all six groups will play their respective ultimate match.

In India's dominating display, the 24-year-old Mandeep fired in 3 quick targets (20th, 27th and 29th mins), all of them coming in the second quarter, after Varun Kumar had given India the lead within the 12th minute of the high-scoring match.


At part time, India had been Four-Zero up within the match ahead of Canada diminished the margin thru a strike from Mark Pearson within the 35th minute.


Amit Rohidas (39th), Vivek Prasad (55th) and Nilakanta Sharma (58th) struck later to take the game beyond the achieve of the Canadians who scored two past due targets thru Fin Boothroyd (50th) and James Wallace (57th).


With the victory, India endured their unbeaten display within the tournament with 3 wins and a draw. South Korea have had a similar run of their 4 matches.


India play their ultimate league match towards Poland on Friday.
Azlan Shah: India thrash Canada 7-3 to enter final Azlan Shah: India thrash Canada 7-3 to enter final Reviewed by Kailash on March 28, 2019 Rating: 5
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