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FIH Pro League: India loses to Australia in shootout - HIGHLIGHTS
Indian men's hockey team suffered their second consecutive defeat on a penalty shootout against Australia in Rourkela on Saturday.
Indian men's hockey team takes on Australia in FIH Hockey Pro League (source: Hockey India)
The Indian men's hockey team played Australia in their third match of the FIH Pro League Rourkela leg but suffered their second consecutive lose on a penalty shootout.
India coming into the fixture with two back-to-back penalty shootout matches against Spain and Netherlands will be disappointed to take another match into shootout despite leading by a goal till 55 minutes.
The Indian team will play their final match of the Rourkela leg against Ireland tomorrow at 7:30 PM IST.
As it Happened:
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- 24 Feb 2024 3:31 PM GMT
47' Australia starts the final quarter with a full on aggressive play
Q4: India 2-1 Australia
- 24 Feb 2024 3:27 PM GMT
End of third quarter: Q3: India 2-1 Australia
No goals from the quarter but it as a very entertaining quarter with both teams getting few good chances to score but a good goalkeeping skills from both the keepers, kept the scorecard unchanged.
- 24 Feb 2024 3:00 PM GMT
Half-time: India 2-1 Australia
An exciting second quarter with three goals in it, all of them from the set-pieces.
Firstly, Harmanpreet gave India the lead in the early minutes of the quarter which quickly equalised by a penalty stroke conversion from Blake govers.
Then, Amit Rohidas scores second goal of the match for India in the dying moments of first half to take his side with a lead in the half-time.
- 24 Feb 2024 2:55 PM GMT
29' Amit Rohidas tack india back in lead
Amit Rohidas scores his first goal of the match to take India back in the lead with a down the line dragflick on goalkeeper left side.
Q2: India 2-1 Australia
