Awful India Deserved to Lose to Malaysia

Jaspreet Sahni


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Ipoh: There's only defeat in waiting when you play the way India did on Friday. It was hustling hockey under the pressure of scoring. No design. No structure. Just a hustle to grab possession, roll the ball and ram into a Malaysian. Eventually the game saw a goal. But not from India. Malaysia scored the only strike of the 60-minute game, that can be put up as a tutorial on how not to play hockey.