Who: India vs Pakistan
What: Males’s Asian Champions Trophy round-robin match
When: Saturday, September 14, 3:45pm (07:45 GMT)
The place: Moqi Hockey Coaching Base, Hulunbuir, China
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South Asian sports activities followers can anticipate a mouthwatering contest on Saturday between India and Pakistan. The competition, although, will play out on the blue synthetic pitch of a hockey floor and never the grassy inexperienced cricket venues which might be synonymous with India-Pakistan encounters.
Three months after their matchat the Worldwide Cricket Council (ICC) Males’s T20 World Cup in New York, the neighbours will renew their rivalry in Hulunbuir – a northeastern Chinese language metropolis within the Interior Mongolia autonomous area – through the round-robin stage of the Asian Hockey Federation (AHF) Males’s Asian Champions Trophy.
Right here’s every thing it’s good to know concerning the sport, the event and the upcoming match:
Are India and Pakistan good at hockey?
You wager. Merely put, the 2 South Asian sides dominated the world of hockey till the early Nineties. Up till the 1947 partition, which led to the creation of Pakistan, the then-Indian crew included gamers from each side of the border that now divides them and received gold on the 1928, 1932 and 1936 Olympic Video games.
Between them, India and Pakistan share 11 Olympic gold medals, 5 world titles, three FIH Champions Trophy titles and dozens of hockey legends.
It’s price mentioning that hockey – not cricket – is the nationwide sport of each India and Pakistan.
Olympic gold medals
World Cups
Champions Trophy
Sultan Azlan Shah Cup
Asia Cup
Asian Champions Trophy
Asian Video games gold medals
South Asian Video games
India vs Pakistan: Hockey rivalry and historical past
The 1947 partition led to the creation of two separate states, India and Pakistan. It additionally gave start to a decades-long largely political rivalry that spilled over into sport.
The Nineteen Fifties and Nineteen Sixties noticed India and Pakistan win 5 Olympic gold medals between them. They clashed in three finals, of which India received two.
The groups have solely met as soon as within the World Cup closing – in 1975, when India received. Whatever the event and the event, their conferences all the time garner peak curiosity and result in sold-out video games and widespread media protection.
India vs Pakistan: Head-to-head report
Matches performed: 180
Gained by India: 66
Gained by Pakistan: 82
Drawn: 32
Objectives scored by India: 377
Objectives scored by Pakistan: 402
Kind information: India
India have been producing higher outcomes of the 2 South Asian neighbours up to now few years.
Most just lately, India received the bronze medal on the Paris Olympics 2024 and are the reigning champions of the Asian Video games, Asian Champions Trophy and Commonwealth Video games.
The boys in blue are undefeated of their 4 video games on the present event.
Final 5 outcomes:
- India 3-1 South Korea
- India 8-1 Malaysia
- India 5-1 Japan
- India 3-0 China
- India 2-1 Spain (Paris Olympics)
Kind information: Pakistan
Of late, Pakistan’s kind and returns on the hockey pitch have been blended. The Greenshirts have received two and drawn two of their 4 round-robin stage matches on the ongoing event.
Shockingly, Pakistan have failed to qualify for the final three Olympic Video games and two of the final three World Cups.
Final 5 outcomes:
- Pakistan 1- China
- Pakistan 2-1 Japan
- Pakistan 2-2 South Korea
- Pakistan 2-2 Malaysia
- Pakistan 2(1)-2(4) Japan (Sultan Azlan Shah Cup)
What’s discipline hockey and the way is it performed?
Merely referred to as hockey, the 11-a-side sport is performed on an artificial pitch – often known as Astroturf – between two groups.
All 11 gamers transfer a hockey ball with a hockey keep on with the goal of slotting it into the again of the opposition’s objective. The crew scoring extra objectives wins.
Hockey sticks are constituted of a mix of fibreglass, carbon and aramid and embrace a protracted deal with that results in a curved head that’s used for manoeuvring the ball on the sector and hitting it into the objective.
The worldwide governing physique of the game is the Worldwide Hockey Federation (FIH).
How is a objective scored in hockey?
A objective can solely be scored from contained in the putting circle and may come from direct play, penalty corners or penalty strokes.
How lengthy is a hockey match?
A hockey match is performed over 60 minutes, divided into 4 quarters of quarter-hour every. Half-time is taken between the second and third quarters and lasts quarter-hour. Two-minute breaks are taken after the primary and third quarters.
Stoppages in play on account of accidents or the ball being out of play result in the halting of the clock, which normally makes the sport last more than the stipulated 60 minutes.
Up till 2019, the sport was performed throughout two halves of 35 minutes every with a five-minute break in between.
What’s the Asian Champions Trophy event?
A continental hockey event that started in 2011, this contest is performed amongst the six finest groups within the area.
All groups face one another in a round-robin format and the highest 4 qualify for the semifinals.
Which groups are taking part in within the Asian Champions 2024?
- China
- India
- Japan
- Malaysia
- Pakistan
- South Korea
Who’re the previous winners of the Asian Champions Trophy?
- 2011: India
- 2012: Pakistan
- 2013: Pakistan
- 2016: India
- 2018: India and Pakistan (joint winners)
- 2021: South Korea
- 2023: India
India squad
Harmanpreet Singh (captain), Krishan Bahadur Pathak, Suraj Karkera, Jarmanpreet Singh, Amit Rohidas, Jugraj Singh, Sanjay, Sumit, Rajkumar Pal, Nilakanta Sharma, Vivek Sagar Prasad, Manpreet Singh, Mohammed Raheel Mouseen, Abhishek, Sukhjeet Singh, Araijeet Singh Hundal, Uttam Singh, Gurjot Singh
Pakistan squad
Ammad Butt (captain), Abdul Rehman, Ajaz Ahmad, Ghazanfar Ali, Muhammad Hammaduddin, Zikriya Hayat, Abdullah Ishtiaq Khan, Sufyan Khan, Arshad Liaqat, Abu Mahmood, Nadeem Ahmad, Faisal Qadir, Rana Waheed Ashraf, Sulman Razzak, Rooman, Hannan Shahid, Moin Shakeel, Muneeb-ur-Rehman