Defending champions India began their Men’s Junior Asia Cup hockey marketing campaign on a rousing observe with a thumping 18-0 win over minnows Chinese Taipei on the Sultan Qaboos Youth Complex, right here on Wednesday.
The Indians toyed with the Chinese Taipei defence, scoring objectives at will.
Araijeet Singh Hundal (nineteenth, nineteenth, thirtieth, 59th minutes) and Amandeep (thirty eighth, thirty ninth, forty first) scored a hat-trick every, whereas Boby Singh Dhami (tenth, forty sixth) and Aditya Arjun Lalage (thirty seventh, thirty seventh) and skipper Uttam Singh (tenth, 59th) discovered the again of the online twice.
Sharda Nand Tiwari (eleventh), Angad Bir Singh (thirty seventh), Amir Ali (51st), Boby Poovanna Chandura (54th) and Yogember Rawat (sixtieth) have been the opposite goal-getters for India in the lop-sided Pool A contest.
India will subsequent play Japan on Thursday earlier than taking up arch-rivals Pakistan on Saturday and Thailand on Sunday.
India will goal to qualify for this 12 months’s Junior World Cup by profitable the match right here.
The match, whereas being a platform for younger gamers in the continent to showcase their abilities, can be essential because the top-three finishers will qualify for the Junior World Cup, scheduled to be held in Malaysia in December this 12 months.
