Tim Brand (3′), Tom Wickham (20′, 38′), Joel Rintala (37′), and Flynn Ogilvie (57′) were the goalscorers for the hosts, while Gurjant Singh (47′) got a single objective for India.
The Indian hockey group went down 1-5 against Australia in their most memorable opening round of the five-match Test series here. Tim Brand (3′), Tom Wickham (20′, 38′), Joel Rintala (37′), and Flynn Ogilvie (57′) were the goalscorers for the hosts, while Gurjant Singh (47′) got a lone objective for India. In the initial quarter, India started with a procedure fixated on ball ownership and directing the game’s speed. In any case, in spite of their endeavors, it was Australia that held onto an early advantage in the match.
Tim Brand (3′) got through India’s protection on a quick counter-assault, tracking down the rear of the net and placing Australia leading the pack. Answering the mishap, India strengthened their hostile moves, mounting tension on the hosts. Australia, thus, inclined up their assaults, procuring two sequential punishment corners. By the by, India’s goalkeeper PR Sreejesh showed momentous expertise, upsetting Australia’s endeavors to extend their lead with two remarkable recoveries.
In the interim, the Indian group entered Australia’s protection and, surprisingly, won a punishment corner yet couldn’t gain by it. The main quarter finished with Australia having a 1-0 lead.
India started off the second quarter with a decided push to balance the score, embracing a forceful methodology. Notwithstanding acquiring an early punishment corner a valuable open door, they couldn’t profit by it. The host group, then again, kept on pushing forward, in the end receiving benefits when Tom Wickham (20′) executed a surprising stretch to score a magnificent objective, really multiplying Australia’s lead.
Following their fruitful development of the lead, the hosts moved their concentration to keeping up with ownership, actually smothering India’s hostile advances. As the halftime whistle blew, Australia easily held a 2-0 lead, solidly in charge of the procedures.
In the second from last quarter, Australia determinedly applied tension on India by squeezing them and testing their cautious capacities at continuous stretches. This persistent methodology delivered profits as they quickly added two additional objectives to their count. Joel Rintala (37′) and Tom Wickham (38′) profited by the potential open doors introduced, really extending Australia’s lead to 4-0 one after another.
In the fourth and last quarter, Australia won an early punishment corner, however the Indian group not just denied the hosts from exploiting it yet in addition pulled one back on a counterattack as Gurjant Singh (47′) got an objective through a strong shot. Be that as it may, Australia reestablished their four-objective lead as Flynn Ogilvie (57′) scored through a punishment corner to add to the hosts’ 5-1 win.
The group will take on Australia in their second round of the visit on seventh April 2024 at 14:00hrs IST.
All the matches of the India visit through Australia will be communicated on Sports18-3 and Sports18-1 HD. The matches will likewise be live-gushed on Jio Film.
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