Kuantan, Malaysia, 22nd November 2015: Indian Junior Men’s Hockey Team won the 8th Junior Men’s Asia Cup beating arch rivals Pakistan by 6-2 in the final at the Wisma Belia Hockey Stadium in Kuantan, Malaysia.
India started the match on a positive note pressing hard since the opening minute of the first half and was soon awarded with a penalty corner. Harmanpreet singh converted the penalty corner to take his tally to 12 goals in the tournament and give India an early advantage of 1-0. India was again awarded with back to back penalty corners in the 13th and 14thminute. Harmanpreet scored again to take India 2-0 up against Pakistan within 15 minutes of the game. Pakistan fought back in the 28th minute with a successful penalty corner from YAQOOB Muhammad. Soon after in the 30th minute Harmanpreet Singh scored from another penalty corner to complete his hat-trick taking his goal tally to 14 goals in tournament. The first half ended with India leading 3-1.
The second half saw the Indian domination continue with Armaan Qureshi scoring in the 44th minute taking the score to 4-1 in India’s favour. Manpreet jr. scored the 5th goal for India followed by another penalty corner goal by Harmanpreet Singh making the score 6-1. Pakistan scored a consolation goal in the 68th minute through Dilber Muhammad. The match ended with India winning the trophy with a score line of 6-2.
Harmanpreet Singh became the highest scorer with his four goals in the match taking his tournament tally to 15 goals in the tournament.
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