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New Zealand’s breathtaking 3-3 gully against the higher-ranked Argentina — aft doubly trailing and past taking the pb — successful a FIH inferior men’s hockey World Cup Pool-C lucifer made for a compelling ticker astatine the SDAT-Mayor Radhakrishnan Stadium present connected Sunday.
With a triumph and a gully from its 2 matches, New Zealand is connected high. It inactive has to look Japan, which earlier scripted its archetypal win, a hard-fought 3-2 effect implicit China.
Ranked 12 to Argentina’s three, the aboriginal Black Sticks played bold attacking hockey, acknowledgment to a hat-trick by 21-year-old Jonty Elmes (his 2nd successful the competition). Given the information that the squad is funded solely by the players and their families, what it achieved connected this time was heartwarming.
Correa Bruno, right, of Argentina, who scored 2 goals against New Zealand during their FIH inferior men’s hockey World Cup successful Chennai connected Sunday, November 30, 2025. | Photo Credit: R. RAGU
At half-time, Argentina led 2-1. But New Zealand fought backmost and adjacent took the pb astatine 3-2 aft Elmes scored his third. Elmes’ 2nd extremity successful the 3rd 4th stood out. After receiving an aerial walk from Javahn Jones connected the archetypal bounce from an acute angle, the 21-year-old didn’t discarded overmuch clip uncovering the net.
Argentina past equalised done the immensely talented Bruno Correa, who pushed 1 into the nett aft an on-the-run walk from Matias Andreotti successful the 3rd quarter.
Amirul Islam scored his 2nd hat-trick of the contention arsenic Bangladesh fought backmost from being 0-3 to gully level against South Korea.
The scores: In Chennai: C: New Zealand 3 (Jonty Elmes 3, 31, 38) drew with Argentina 3 (Mateo Torrigiani 1, Bruno Correa 10, 29); Japan 3 (Shun Hara 18, Shu Ono 19, Kazuki Terasaka 49) bt China 2 (Ning Dongjun 10, 56-ps).
F: South Korea 3 (Lee Minheok 7, 16-ps, Seunghan Son 12) drew with Bangladesh 3 (Amirul Islam 35, 55, 55).
In Madurai: D: Namibia 4 (Liam Bruys 23, James de Jager 26, Josh van der Merwe 32, John-Paul Britz 60) bt Egypt 2 (Abdelrahman Kasem 28, Mohab Hegab 53); Spain 2 (Juan Prado 20, Bruno Avila 32) bt Belgium 0.
E: England 13 (George Fletcher 21, 27, Kaden Draysey 24, 25, 29, 53, Henry Markham 32, 38, 47, Michael Royden 36, Olly Bennet 40, Alex Chihota 49, Max Anderson 54) bt Austria 0; Netherlands 6 (Casper van der Veen 9, 10, Joppe Wolbert 20, 21, Thies Bakker 28, Pepijn van der Valk 42) bt Malaysia 0.
