Hockey: India Junior Men record first win in Madrid
PTC News
June 15th 2019 07:12 PM --
Updated:
June 15th 2019 07:16 PM
Defending Junior (men) World Cup champions India redeemed some prestige by winning its first match in the 8-nation Under-21 Invitational Tournament in Madrid on Saturday. India defeated Austria 4-2 in a classification game for fifth to eighth position.
Earlier, India lost all its pool games. After going down 0-4 to Australia, India subsequently lost its games to the Netherlands 2-3 and Spain 1-3 to finish at the bottom of the pool with no point.
Austria had finished third in its pool as it had one win to its credit for having defeated Great Britain by a solitary goal.
Two penalty corner conversions by Sanjay, first in the 15th minute and the second in the 23rd minute, had given India a morale boosting lead before the Austrians hit back with a brilliant goal by Oliver Kern in the 34th minute.A minute later Rahul Raibahar again consolidated India's position with a field goal.