Rajgir (Bihar) [India], August 31 (ANI): After India’s win over Japan within the ongoing males’s Hockey Asia Cup in Rajgir, on Sunday, Hockey India President Dilip Kumar Tirkey believed the hosts are performing effectively, and so they had a detailed encounter with Japan and Malaysia.
Team India continued their successful type within the Hero Men’s Asia Cup Rajgir, Bihar 2025, with a 3-2 victory towards Japan of their second Pool A fixture on the Rajgir Hockey Stadium.
‘We had a detailed match with Japan and Malaysia. China has given a troublesome combat. We can’t say that we’re the most effective on this planet, however we’re performing effectively,’ Tirkey informed the media.
Captain Harmanpreet Singh (5′, 46′) and Mandeep Singh (4′) scored targets for India whereas Kosei Kawabe (38′,59′) scored a brace for Japan.
With this win, India has secured a spot within the Super 4s stage as they progress forward within the event. The match additionally marked an necessary milestone for Indian goalkeeper Krishan B Pathak as he celebrated his one hundred and fiftieth worldwide recreation.
India will face Kazakhstan of their subsequent match of the Men’s Asia Cup, Rajgir, Bihar 2025, on Monday, September 1.
Tirkey confirmed that Team Gonasika and Odisha Warriors have withdrawn from the Hockey India League males’s and girls’s tournaments; he additionally stated Gonasika and Odisha will likely be put up for public sale.
‘When Odisha Warriors left, that group formally didn’t exist anymore. Now the gamers of the Warriors will likely be put up for public sale. Gonasika gamers are additionally up for public sale. The public sale dates haven’t been finalised but, however almost definitely it would occur on the finish of this month,’ he added.
Rarh Bengal Tigers went on to win the boys’s league. Meanwhile, Odisha Warriors are the winners of the inaugural girls’s event. (ANI)