The Indian women’s hockey team, which has been content with a bronze medal in the Women’s Hockey Asia Cup, has started fighting for its next title, bypassing the Asia Cup defeat. The Indian women’s hockey team made a winning start to their campaign by defeating China by a huge 7-1 margin in their first match of the FIH Pro League. After defeating India in the Asia Cup, the Chinese team did not look anywhere in this match.
In this entire match, the Indian women’s team was seen to be heavy on China. Not a single time did it feel like the team was getting weak. At the same time, the Chinese team made some attempts to score goals, but was successful only once. While Navneet Kaur, Neha, Vandana Kataria, Gurjit Kaur, Sushila Chanu scored one goal each and Sharmila Devi scored two goals for India. At the same time, Deng Xu scored the only goal for China.
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Talking about the match, India dominated from the very beginning. Ravneet in the 5th minute of the match, then Neha in the 12th minute and then Vandana Katariya in the 40th minute of the match gave India a strong 3-0 lead. Exactly 3 minutes later, Danz Yue scored the first goal for China. However, the Indian women’s team continued to attack and in the 47th minute, Sushil Chanu made a penalty stroke to take the lead 4-1. After this, the very next minute Devi Sharmila scored the 5th goal for the team, then Kaur Gurjeet in the 50th minute, then Sushil Chanu scored her second goal in the 52nd minute to take a 7-1 lead. Sharmila Devi was awarded the Player of the Match award.