India beats Hong-Kong China with highest ever victory margin at the Asian Games

Reigning Champions Indian Men’s Hockey Team continued their rampaging performance at the 18th Asian Games Jakarta-Palembang as they notched up a 26-0 victory against a hapless Hong-Kong China in their second Pool A match here on Wednesday. With this victory, India registered their highest ever victory margin in the history of the Asian Games.

Hong-Kong China had little chance against a strong Indian defence that kept them from entering the striking circle, and yet again the Indian goalkeeper was rarely tested with no potential shots on goal taken by Hong-Kong China. The Indian attackers, meanwhile, ran riot scoring insatiable goals at heady pace.

India’s dragflick expert Rupinder Pal Singh scored maximum of five goals (3’, 5’, 30’, 45’, 60’) while his young compatriot Harmanpreet Singh scored four goals (29’, 52’, 53’, 55’). A Hat-trick of goals were scored by striker Akashdeep Singh (2’, 32’, 35’) and Manpreet Singh (3’, 17’), Lalit Upadhyay (17’, 19’), Varun Kumar (23’, 30+) scored twice while SV Sunil (7’), Vivek Sagar Prasad (14’), Mandeep Singh (21’), Amit Rohidas (27’), Dilpreet Singh (48’), Chinglensana Singh Kangujam (51’), Simranjeet Singh (53’) and Surender Kumar (55’) too contributed to India’s scoreline. This performance took India’s total score in the tournament thus far to a marvellous 43 goals.