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This is an archive article published on March 7, 2008

India lose to Great Britain

Rob Moore scored in the last minute to give Great Britain a 3-2 win against India and virtually...

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Rob Moore scored in the last minute to give Great Britain a 3-2 win against India and virtually assure them of a berth in the final of the World Hockey Qualifying tournament at the Prince of Wales Country Club ground on Thursday.

The result provided Britain their fourth win in the league while India remained on nine points from three wins and now need to beat hosts Chile on Saturday to qualify for the final the following day.

For India, V Raghunath converted two penalty corners in the 2nd and 64th minutes to keep them in the game.

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Britain keeping their composure despite the early reverse, hit back through Richard Mantell (15th) and Jonty Clarke (45th) before Moore came up with the match-winner.

India blew an early lead and failed to perform to the expected levels nor was there much discipline, especially in the first-half during which they received two yellow card suspensions.

Britain played a far more constructive game and stuck to their gameplan of attacking from the wings to wear down the Indian defence.

The first-half proceedings were rather scrappy with neither team able to get into any sort of rhythm. While an early goal failed to inspire India, the British displayed resilience to keep chipping away at the rival defence to eventually score the equaliser.

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The Indian team failed to show much discipline in their overall game that was punctuated by needless physical play leading to yellow card suspensions to Vikram Kanth and Shivendra Singh.

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