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The Indian inferior men’s hockey squad continued its unbeaten tally astatine the Sultan of Johor Cup with a comfy 4-2 triumph against New Zealand, successful Malayasia connected Sunday (October 12, 2025).
Arshdeep Singh (2nd minute), P.B. Sunil (15th), Araijeet Singh Hundal (26th) and Roman Kumur (47th) scored the goals for India, portion Gus Nelson (41st) and Aidan Max (52nd) recovered the nett for New Zealand.
India had earlier defeated Great Britain 3-2 successful their opening lucifer of the tournament.
The opening extremity for India came arsenic aboriginal arsenic successful the 2nd infinitesimal of the archetypal 4th with Arshdeep scoring from a escaped shot aft mediocre defending successful the ellipse by New Zealand.
He made a swift tally successful the ellipse from the close flank and took a changeable connected extremity but was initially saved by the New Zealand keeper, but helium managed to person from the rebound.
India was speedy to treble their pb successful the last infinitesimal of the 4th erstwhile Sunil scored from a good punishment country saltation erstwhile dragflicker and skipper of the side, Rohit, passed the shot to Sunil.
This was India’s 4th effort aft the archetypal 3 recovered the ft of the New Zealand archetypal rusher.
A debased snapshot by Sunil was conscionable astir capable to find the backmost of the net.
With a comfy 2-0 lead, India started the 2nd 4th utilizing the close combinations to make bully attacking chances. They recovered an accidental erstwhile Araijeet, who was unmarked successful the circle, took a changeable aft a speedy turnaround to instrumentality a palmy changeable connected goal.
New Zealand yet broke the gridlock connected the 3rd 4th erstwhile Nelson scored successful the 41st infinitesimal narrowing India’s pb to 3-1.
Rosan Kumur scored successful the 47th infinitesimal done a punishment country to manus India a 4-1 cushion successful the last quarter.
Max pulled 1 backmost for New Zealand successful the 52nd infinitesimal and it went connected to go rather an absorbing last fewer minutes with New Zealand trying to claw their mode backmost into the game, but Indian defence held strong.
India volition adjacent play Pakistan connected Tuesday (October 14).
