Asian Games 2023: Harmanpreet, Mandeep hat-tricks see India men’s hockey team thump Singapore 16-1

India clinched a thumping 16-1 win over Singapore in males’s hockey event on the Asian Video games in Hangzhou. PTI

Harmanpreet Singh-led Indian males’s hockey crew continued their dominant run within the ongoing 2023 Asian Video games in Hangzhou, with a 16-1 win over Singapore on Tuesday.

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This follows India’s thumping of 16-0 over Uzbekistan simply two days again.

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Skipper Harmanpreet Singh (twenty fourth, thirty ninth, fortieth, 42^nd) led from the entrance, scoring as many as 4 targets in what was one more scientific effort from the Indians. All of Harmanpreet’s targets got here via penalty corners.

Mandeep Singh (Twelfth, thirtieth, 51^st) additionally netted a hat-trick whereas Abhishek (51^st, 52^nd) scored a brace. Lalit Upadhyay (16^th), Vivek Sagar Prasad (23^rd), Gurjant Singh (22^nd), Manpreet Singh (37^th) and Shamsher (38^th) have been the others who have been among the many targets.

Having leaked 14 targets, Singapore, who’re ranked a lowly forty ninth, lastly managed to attain their first aim of the match, and the event, when Zaki Zulkarnain slammed dwelling within the 53rd minute.

From being 1-0 up after Mandeep Singh’s Twelfth-minute strike, India pumped in 5 targets within the second quarter to take a commanding 6-0 lead going into the halftime.

India subsequent face Japan of their third group stage match on Thursday.

With inputs from PTI