Men’s Junior Asia Cup hockey 2023 results today, points table, schedule, date, time, score, live streaming telecast

India established their dominance as reigning champions in the Men’s Junior Asia Cup 2023 hockey, with a thumping 18-0 victory over Chinese Taipei, find out Pool A standings, upcoming matches, full competition schedule, results, and more

The Men’s Junior Asia Cup 2023 hockey tournament serves as a qualifying event for the upcoming FIH Junior Men’s World Cup 2023.

Men’s Junior Asia Cup hockey 2023 results today, points table, schedule, date, time, score, matches, live streaming telecast

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The top three teams in the Men’s Junior Asia Cup 2023 and the hosts will qualify for the quadrennial event set to take place in Malaysia in December.

India secures crushing 18-0 victory over Chinese Taipei

The Indian national hockey team began their title defence at the Men’s Junior Asia Cup 2023 with a crushing 18-0 win over Chinese Taipei. The match took place at the Sultan Qaboos Youth Complex in Salalah, Oman on Wednesday.

India looked in strong from the very start with captain Uttam Singh (10’, 59’) opening the floodgates with his goal. Meanwhile, vice-captain Dhami Boby Singh (10’) scored India’s second goal in the same minute.

The rest of the goals came from Araijeet Singh Hundal (19’, 19’ 30’, 59’) who scored four goals,  Angad Bir Singh scoring one (37’), Aditya Arjun Lalage (37’, 37’) scoring twice, Amandeep (38’, 39’, 41’) three and Yogember Rawat (60’) scoring one.

From the 18 goals, only three of India’s goals came off penalty corners. The first penalty goal was Sharda Nand Tiwari’s strike (11’) in the first quarter. The other two goals came in the fourth-quarter from Amir Ali (51’) and Chandura boby Poovanna (54’).

Men’s Junior Asia Cup 2023 Pool A standings

Following India’s win over Chinese Taipei, they are now on top of Pool A with three points and a +18 goal difference. Pakistan on the other hand, defeated Chinese Taipei 15-1 on Tuesday, and are second with a goal difference of +14. Japan are third on the points table after beating Thailand 7-1 in their opening match. This means that Thailand are in fourth place while Chinese Taipei are last in the five-team Pool A.

Meanwhile, the Republic of Korea, Malaysia, Oman, Bangladesh and Uzbekistan make up the teams in Pool B.

Men’s Junior Asia Cup 2023 upcoming matches

Following the recent match, the Indian hockey team will next face against Japan on Thursday. The side will then face arch-rivals Pakistan on Saturday and then Thailand on Sunday for the last league stage match. After the end of the league stage, the top two teams from each pool will qualify for the knockout semi-finals.

Men’s Junior Asia Cup 2023 competition schedule and results

Given below is the full schedule and current results for the competition in IST:

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