Faizal Saari of Malaysia may not be aware of the kind of statistical milestone one of his goals in the ongoing Dhaka Asia Cup has made, and how because of that his name will be etched in the pages of Asia Cup history evergreen. Malaysian match against Oman on the last day of Preliminary Round of Dhaka Asia Cup thus is important.
The talented forward’s 27th minute field goal against Oman is Asia Cup’s 1300th goal.
It took 211 matches for the milestone to occur.
So far the Asia Cup competition in its entirety has produced 1338 goals with six more matches to go.
Only twice, total goals in a single edition did not cross one hundredth mark, the Dhaka edition will thankfully cross the double-digit tomorrow.
The ongoing Dhaka Asia Cup has seen 99 goals so far in 18 matches, and it remains to be seen who will strike the 100th goal. The first goal of Saturday’s match will have the label.
India’s Harmanpreet Singh is leading Indian scorer’s list. So far Sukhbir Grewal, Rajpal Singh, Tushar Khandker, Mandeep Singh, V Raghunath, Rupinder Pal Singh have scored a total of six goals individually in an Asia Cup edition.
Prabhjot Singh’s 14 goals that he obtained in Chennai ten years ago is the highest individual score for India, followed by Md Naim’s 12 (Dhaka, 1985).
After second Action Day of Super 4s and Classification rounds, 64 field have been struck, 30 through penalty corners while just five from strokes.
Harmanpreet Singh’s 35th minute Penalty Corner conversion goal against Japan in the Dhaka Opener is India’s 250th goal.