Asia Cup Highlights After Day Three

The hard fought victory for Korea against Japan must be happy for Dae Keun Oh. It was his 28th birth day.

Pakistan goalkeeper Salman Akbar made a milestone on his hockey career on a memorable fashion. He played his 150th match on Monday, and his team won the traditional rivals India.

Japan and Bangladesh teams have one thing in common. Their team’s collective caps is less than one man’s in Indian side. That is Dilip Tirkey.

Chinese player Tian Jun Sun played his one hundredth match in the opener against Pakistan here.

With a collective match experience of 1852, China is the third experienced team here after India and Pakistan. Chinese have about 600 caps more than the Koreans. Unbelievable.

In the first three days, six matches were held, two ended in draw.

Out of 27 goals scored, only two are from stroke conversion.

The beauty is there are 24 players already in the scorers’ list, though only 27 goals scored so far.

Only three players scored a brace each

Only 9 penalty corners have been converted.

Born on 9th June 1975, Sohail Abbas at 33 is the oldest player at Kuantan.

Bangladesh is a whipping boy here, have conceded already 12 goals in two matches while scoring just one.