Delhi in last 8 of national hockey
Delhi crushed Jharkhand 4-1 to enter the quarterfinals of the 63rd senior national men’s hockey championship on Tuesday. Delhi, thus, became the seventh team to book a berth in the quarter-finals. The other teams which have already made it to the quarter-finals are Mumbai, Tamil Nadu, Chandigarh, Punjab, Haryana and hosts Madhya Pradesh State Hockey Academy (MPSHA), Bhopal.
For Delhi, Pradeep Kumar (4th minute), Rocky (29th), Amit Lochan (43rd) and Praveen (68th) were the goal scorers while Suman Tirkey scored the lone goal for Jharkhand in the 24th minute.
In another match, Orissa defeated Uttarakhand 2-1 to stay in the quarter-final race along with SAIL from Pool H. Lakra (16th minute) and Tirkey (26th) found the net for Orissa while Abdul Masid (4th minute) scored Uttarakhand’s only goal.
IHF junior team
The Indian Hockey Federation junior boys’ team has left for Chenai to participate in the 80th All India MCC Murugappa Gold Cup to be held from July 15-25. Probables for the team were camping at Sports Authority of India (SAI) centre, a press release said.
Squad: P Naveen Kumar, Abhinav Pandey, Amit Rohidas, Chandan Singh, Gurjinder Singh, Devendra Valmiki, Manpreet Singh, Pradeep More, Manmeet Raj Singh, Barkat Singh, Varinder Singh, Naveen Sangwan, Lalit Upadhyay, Gunasekar M, Alfan Yusuf, Sukhdev Singh, Anslam Hemran and Armaan Qureshi