{"id":232977,"date":"2024-01-23T00:17:48","date_gmt":"2024-01-22T18:47:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/?p=232977"},"modified":"2024-01-23T00:17:48","modified_gmt":"2024-01-22T18:47:48","slug":"indian-mens-hockey-team-starts-4-nation-tourney-with-easy-4-0-win-over-france","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/2024\/01\/23\/indian-mens-hockey-team-starts-4-nation-tourney-with-easy-4-0-win-over-france\/","title":{"rendered":"Indian men&#8217;s hockey team starts 4-Nation tourney with easy 4-0 win over France"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Cape Town, 22 Jan: Skipper Harmanpreet scored a brace as Indian men&#8217;s hockey team thrashed France 4-0 to begin its campaign in the Four-Nation Tournament on a rousing note here on Monday.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The Indian defence produced a resolute perfor-mance with France failing to get past veteran PR Sreejesh and Krishan Bahadur Pathak at the goalpost.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Harmanpreet (13th, 26th minutes) converted two pen-alty corners while Lalit Upa-dhyay (42nd) and vice-captain Hardik Singh (49) were the other goal-getters for India.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">India broke the deadlock two minutes from the first quarter through Harman-preet&#8217;s powerful dragflick. He doubled the lead in the second quarter, converting another penalty corner.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Lalit made the scoreline 3-0 after the change of ends when he found the back of the French goal through a penalty corner variation.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">In the final quarter, Hardik extended the lead to take the game beyond France&#8217;s reach by scoring a finely executed field goal.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The week-long tourna-ment features France, the Netherlands, India and hosts South Africa. India will face France again in their second match on Wednesday, followed by a match against hosts South Africa on Friday and then against the Nether-lands on Sunday. (PTI)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Cape Town, 22 Jan: Skipper Harmanpreet scored a brace as Indian men&#8217;s hockey team thrashed France 4-0 to begin its campaign in the Four-Nation Tournament on a rousing note here on Monday. The Indian defence produced a resolute perfor-mance with France failing to get past veteran PR Sreejesh and Krishan Bahadur Pathak at the goalpost. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-232977","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/232977","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=232977"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/232977\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=232977"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=232977"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=232977"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}