Team India won the Asian Hockey Champions Trophy for the fourth time

By Ravi - August 13, 2023 - Last updated on Aug 13, 2023 01:22 PM
Team India won the Asian Hockey Champions Trophy for the fourth time

Team India won the Asian Hockey Champions Trophy for the fourth time

The Indian hockey team has won the Asian Champions Trophy 2023. India defeated Malaysia 4-3 in the final match played in Chennai, the Indian team has won the Asian Champions Trophy title for the fourth time. Akashdeep Singh scored the decisive goal for India

Indian hockey team has won the Asian Champions Trophy 2023

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Indian hockey team has won the Asian Champions Trophy 2023. India defeated Malaysia 4-3 in the final match played in Chennai on Saturday, 12 August. Jugraj Singh (19th minute), Harmanpreet Singh (45th minute), Gurjant Singh (45th minute) and Akashdeep Singh (56th minute) scored for India. On the other hand, Azrai Abu Kamal, Razi Rahim and M. Aminuddin scored for Malaysia.

The Indian team has won the Asian Champions Trophy title for the fourth time. Now it has become the team to win the title of this tournament for the maximum number of times, India has defeated Pakistan in this matter, which won the title on three occasions. Apart from India-Pakistan, only Korea has won this tournament on one occasion, Korea won the title in the year 2021 season.

India showed strong game after trailing 1-3

India started scoring goals in the final match. In the 9th minute of the game, Jugraj Singh scored this excellent goal on the penalty corner. Then in the 14th minute of the game, Azrai Abu Kamal scored a field goal to make the score 1-1. After this, the second quarter of the game was entirely in the name of Malaysia, in which the visiting team scored two goals. In the 18th minute, experienced player Razi Rahim converted the penalty corner into a goal. Then in the 28th minute, Mohammad Aminuddin also scored on the penalty corner. Malaysia were leading 3-1 at halftime

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In the third quarter, the Indian team made a great comeback. India scored two goals in the last minute of this quarter. First of all, captain Harmanpreet Singh scored a strong goal on the penalty stroke. After a few seconds, Gurjant Singh scored a field goal to level the match.Gave. Then in the last quarter, Akashdeep Singh scored the decisive goal for India.

There is an atmosphere of happiness in the whole country on the historic victory of the Indian team. Many celebrities including Prime Minister Narendra Modi, Union Sports Minister Anurag Thakur have praised the strong game of the Indian team. Team India has also been congratulated by the Indian National Congress.

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Total six teams participated

A total of 6 teams including India and Pakistan participated in this tournament. Out of this, the teams of Pakistan and China could not reach the knockout stage, all the teams played five matches each in the group stage. The Indian team reached the semi-finals by being on top with 13 points. Malaysia was at number two, with 12 points. At the same time, Korea, Japan and Pakistan had equal 5-5 points. Korea and Japan were also able to reach the semi-finals on the basis of better goal difference while China could take only one point. India defeated Japan and Malaysia in the semi-finals to make it to the title match

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