Tokyo Olympics: Hockey LIVE Day 12 — India to play Great Britain for Bronze - Lose Semifinal 1-2 - Updates, score, results, blog
Welcome to our Live Blog coverage of the Semifinal of the Women's Field Hockey competition at Tokyo 2020
Indian Women Hockey Team (Source: Hockey India)
The fearless Indian women's hockey team take on an Argentinian side that clinically decimated the Germans by a 3 -0 margin in the quarterfinals of the Field Hockey competition at Tokyo Olympics 2020.
Gurjit Kaur made up for a missed penalty stroke in the group game against Germany by scoring the all-important winner in the biggest match of all beating Aussie goalkeeper Kathryn Lynch by virtue of well-directed PC.
Rani and co. are now up against a team that have displaced Australia from the World No 2 spot and the Los Leones women will attempt to justify their revised rankings by making it to the Olympic final.
Expect the Indians to play their heart out and take the attack to the opposition while Argentina attempt to control the pace of the match.
There is no way you can miss this historic clash as Sjoerd Marijne's team who have now risen three slots to an all-time best ranking of World No 7 go about making more history.
The match begins at 1530 IST so stay with us as we bring you all the updates.
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INDIA WILL NOW PLAY GREAT BRITAIN FOR THE BRONZE MEDAL ON FRIDAY AFTER A VALIANT SHOW AGAINST WORLD NO 2 ARGENTINA
THANK YOU FOR JOINING US DURING OUR LIVE UPDATES. WE WILL BE BACK WITH MORE UPDATES WHEN THE INDIAN MEN PLAY GERMANY IN THE BRONZE-MEDAL MATCH ON THURSDAY AT 0700 IST
STAY TUNED WITH US
59' INDIA HAVE A LONG CORNER AS ARGENTINA PROTEST!!!!
INDIA DENIED A PC!!!! INDIA DENIED A LONG CORNER!!! VIDEO UMPIRE IN THE ACTION!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
59' NAVNEET TRIES A DIVING REVERSE - INDIA WANT A PC!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
58' LOS LEONES CONTROL POSSESSION AS THE CLOCK TICKS DOWN AT THE OI HOCKEY STADIUM!!!
57' THE BLACK SHIRTS KEEP THE BALL TO THEMSELVES AS THE INDIANS TRY IN VAIN TO WIN POSSESSION!!!
56' TRINCHENNITI IN THE INDIAN CIRCLE - SAVITA RUSHES OUT!!!
INDIA 1 - ARGENTINA 2
53' LOS LEONES IN CONTROL IN THE INDIAN CIRCLE BUT THE INDIAN DEFENDERS HOLD FORT
51' PC SAVED BY THE ARGENTINE GOALIE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! SUCCI SAVED ONE FROM OPEN PLAY AS WELL!!