Contemporary hockey world’s top notch player Jamie Dwyer’s team struggle in the hero Hockey India League. The team led by the famed Australian faced its third straight defeat today at Burton Park stadium, nowadays known as Olympian Surjit Singh Stadium in Jalandhar.

Playing their first match, Lucknow based Uttar Pradesh Wizard won their match today 2-1 after leading most of the times. Jamie’s team struck midway through third quarter, struck by Jamie himself, but it fell short of a goal.

Sure, this narrow loss gives the Punjab team one point,a s was the case with previous two matches. Whereas UPW collects full five points.

Earlier, Lucknow team struck through Jolen Hertzberger, who was also adjudged for being the best for having struck the beautiful goal.

The winning goal came through a timely deflection off a immaculate slap shot of captain Raghunath.

“We played well, and came up with goal when needed, said beaming captain VR Raghunath.

Jolie Wouter was declared “Man of the Match’.

Though both teams were rusty, Lucknow team improved co-ordianation as the match wore on and when faced with a flurry of attacks from their rival in the last quarter especially, they showed enough guts to stand up.

Punjab Warriors, who definitely had better ball possession, earned as many as three penalty corners as against nil by UPW, but they did not show good drill to convert them into any goal.

When just seven minutes remained for the hooter, Barry Dancer’s team even took the risk of playing without goalie, yet the improved field strength did not yield any result, if at all its actually their rival team that appeared more aggressive, missing out couple of solos one each by Nitin and Tushar.

Man of the Match: Jolie Wouter

Hero Goal of the Match: Jeroen Hertzberger

Scores:

Jaypee Punjab Warriors 1 (Jamie Dwyer 40) lost to Uttar Pradesh Wizards 1 (Jeroen Hertzberger 17, Jaap Stockmann 58 OG)

Tomorrow Ranchi Rhinos will take on Mumbai Magicians on their home turf at 8 p.m.