New Delhi:Indian Hockey Team Thrash Pakistan 10-2 In Pool A .Captain Harmanpreet Singh scored four goals as India decimated neighbors Pakistan 10-2 in a Pool A encounter in the ongoing Asian Games 2023.India took the lead half-way through the first quarter through Mandeep Singh.
The duo of Mandeep and Abhishek combined well to run through the Pakistani defence and which set up a tap-in for Mandeep to give India an early lead.Late in the first quarter, skipper Harmanpreet doubled India’s lead with a brilliantly taken penalty stroke. In the second quarter, Harmanpreet found the back of the net once again, this time through a well-worked penalty corner.In the dying seconds of the second quarter, Sumit piled the misery on Pakistan by netting India’s fourth of the match. Sumit directed a powerful reverse hit by Lalit Upadyay past the Pakistani goalkeeper to give India a 4-0 advantage going into half-time.
