CWG 2022: Indian hockey team’s disappointing performance, lost chance of victory against England

Birmingham Commonwealth Games 2022 India has faced disappointment in hockey. Indian men’s team lost a good chance of victory against England in their pool match and had to work out a 4-4 draw. In this match held on Monday 1 August in Pool B, the Indian team made several mistakes one after the other in the last quarter, due to which it had to play with 9 players for a long time and England took advantage of this by scoring three goals and drawing the match. Succeeded in getting it done. After this result, the Indian team lost its chance to go to the top of the pool.

In the match, the Indian team took a 2-0 lead in the first quarter itself, which pushed England on the back foot by achieving 3-0 at the end of the second quarter. England, however, took the first step towards a comeback in the third quarter and made the score 3–1. Then in the fourth quarter, India immediately reduced the score to 4-1, but in the last 10 minutes the Indian players kept on fouling, due to which they had to go out. Due to fewer players, the team could not defend properly and the entire lead was over.

India started the match very fast and took the lead within three minutes. Star forward Lalit Upadhyay made a strong start for the team by scoring a goal on the rebound. In the 11th minute of the same quarter, Mandeep Singh also doubled India’s lead by putting the ball into the goal on the basis of excellent ground move. The first quarter ended 2-0.

In the second quarter also Mandeep also scored another goal for India. In the 22nd minute of the match, Mandeep made India’s lead 3-0 with another open play move. It seemed that Team India’s dominance would continue, but the situation started changing from the third quarter. During this, both the teams created some more chances but could not convert them into goals. In the last moments of the third quarter, Liam Ansel scored the first goal for England and brought the match to a score of 1-3.

The real game took place in the last quarter, where Harmanpreet Singh scored a goal from the penalty corner for India to take the lead 4-1, but due to the yellow card shown to Varun Kumar and then Gurjant Singh, India had 9 players for most of the time. had to play with. England took advantage of this and scored 3 goals within 7 minutes to level the match 4-4.