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Men's Hockey Team Start Tokyo 2020 Campaign With 3-2 Win Over New Zealand

The Quint
·1 min read

The Indian men's hockey team opened their Tokyo Olympics campaign with a 3-2 victory over New Zealand in a Pool A match on Saturday morning at the Oi Hockey Stadium.

Harmanpreet Singh scored two goals off penalty corners as India survived some anxious moments to start with a win.

Rupinderpal Singh had equalised for India in the 10th minute after New Zealand had gone ahead off a penalty corner conversion by Kane Russel.

Harmanpreet scored off successive penalty corners in the 26th and 33rd minute to give India a 3-1 lead.

Stephen Jenness reduced the margin for New Zealand. The Black Sticks created a lot of pressure in the fourth quarter but could not find the equaliser.

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Graham Reid's Indian team are ranked fourth in the world while New Zealand are eighth. Even in head-to-head matches, India have won 21 of the 41 encounters while New Zealand have won 15. Five ended in draws.

The two teams are in Pool A with Australia (No 1), Argentina (7th), Spain (9th) and hosts Japan (15th).

Though the team is a little bit short on the match practice -

The European teams -- Netherlands, Germany, Belgium, Great Britain, and Spain had participated in the European championships. The Indians had a lengthy camp at Bengaluru, playing intra-squad matches to simulate match situations.

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