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Points table: India go top but with a few more matches played than their closest competitors. Not the most ideal performance tonight, but plenty of entertainment for sure.

Player of the match: Harmanpreet Singh

Shootout, India 3-2 England: SAM WARD MISSES THE STROKE! And India win it after a dramatic shootout (even if not the highest quality). Pathak brilliant in the end. Ward just missed the target.

Shootout, India 3-2 England: Pathak saves but he has played the ball away with his helmet on the ground! That’s a stroke on a technicality. Oh dear. This is going on and on. Ward on the stroke now.

Shootout, India 3-2 England: Abhishek with a solid finish, England have to score now.

Shootout, India 2-2 England: Oh, Griffiths with a crazy chip attempt! And it is just wide! That would have been some way to win it.

Shootout, India 2-2 England: Harmanpreet goes now as order reverses for sudden death... and Harmanpreet misses again. Both his chances have gone begging.

Shootout, India 2-2 England: Vivek dallies a bit too long, Payne does brilliantly. Sudden death time.

Shootout, India 2-2 England: Pathak went to ground early but recovered nicely to make the angle tigh, but Goodfield cannot score! Off the post. Vivek can win it for India now.

Shootout, India 2-2 England: Albery with a big finish, as Pathak came forward quite a bit. Abhishek scores too. Still going level.

Shootout, India 1-1 England: England lose their referral so that goes down as a good tackle by Pathak. Raj Kumar Pal for India now... And he scores. Nicely done. We are all level after 3 each.

Shootout, India 0-1 England: Pathak does his bit with a superb tackle. But England refer this for a stick check.

Shootout, India 0-1 England: Griffiths with a cheeky finish through Pathak’s feet. Shamsher has two shots at goal and he misses both. India poor in the shootout again so far.

Shootout, India 0-0 England: ...and Harmanpreet goes wide on the spin. Both teams miss.

Shootout, India 0-0 England: Not a goal, great review by Pathak! The ball was deemed to be tapped instead of a clean hit. Harmanpreet can put India ahead now.

Shootout, India 0-1 England: Krishan Pathak’s tackle results in a penalty stroke and Ward scores. But Pathak wants to review this one.

Time for the shootout. Pathak in goal for India. Payne for England.

FULL TIME STATS: You can’t begrudge a point for England here for the draw, they certainly deserved it.

Q4, India 3-3 England: GOAL ENGLAND! Sam Ward wasn’t going to miss was he. Pathak on goal. With 14 seconds now on clock... surely that’s shootout time.

Q4, India 3-2 England: PENALTY STROKE ENGLAND. 12 secs to go.

India review... match-deciding review.

Q4, India 3-2 England: Oh dear! There you go, England come at them... with 12 seconds to go a penalty stroke! Manpreet shouldn’t have lost the ball.

Q4, India 3-2 England: India can run down the clock now. 40 secs to go. Manpreet loses possession, uncharacteristically.

Q4, India 3-2 England: Into the last 90 seconds, India are pinned back. An English backstick relieves pressure.

Q4, India 3-2 England: Oh dear, that’s a bad miss for India. No goalkeeper in play, a PC won. Harmanpreet, one short of 100, selflessly sets up Jugraj but he is not able to get the shot away. Mandeep’s shot is then high. Will India rue that?

Q4, India 3-2 England: A bit more than three minutes left and England will come forward now, as they should. India might have counter chances.

Q4, India 3-2 England: GOAL INDIA! Unstoppable! What a goal that is from Harmanpreet. Stunning. Perfect placement into the left corner, low to the right of the GK. The ball hit the board and is rolling towards the half way line, such was the power.

Q4, India 2-2 England: Jugraj Singh takes this PC, deflected wide. India have another PC.

Q4, India 2-2 England: The first PC for India if we are not mistaken. Won by Harmanpreet, he’d be keen to have a go here. Oh what a save! Brilliant reflex by Oliver Payne, India win another PC.

Q4, India 2-2 England: Harman’s brilliant pass into the circle results in a couple of chances for India, Jaskaran with the final shot on goal saved. 10 mins to go now.

Q4, India 2-2 England: Gracious England have made it 10-10 each. Park with a green card.

Q4, India 2-2 England: Shilanand and Sanford involved in a nasty collision but is side on. As he gets up, Shilanand gets a green card and India are down to 10 for two mins.

Q4, India 2-2 England: The injection goes all wrong. India hang on to 2-2.

Q4, India 2-2 England: Surender does well to avoid getting his feet on the ball in the circle but then a stick tackle... India have to defend a PC again. Bandurak on a hat-trick. Pathak in goal.

End of Q3, India 2-2 England: Well, a rather ordinary quarter from an Indian perspective comes to an end. Decent defensively but their offensive play has been lacklustre, far too many incomplete passes. Can they find their groove in Q4? Still no PCs for India.

Q3, India 2-2 England: This is not a quarter Coach Reid can be happy with. Barely any control on possession for India. But defensively rather solid.

Q3, India 2-2 England: The visitors with more joy down the right flank. India scampering back to deal with it.

Q3, India 2-2 England: Oh brilliant England move down the left, Condon with a great run. Indian defence remains calm and deal with the situation.

Q3, India 2-2 England: Another rather cagey phase in the match. Neither side controlling possession.

Q3, India 2-2 England: Fine save by Sreejesh. India keep things in the balance.

Q3, India 2-2 England: Oh what an English move! Ward involved of course, and Goodfield nearly scores a good field goal. It is a PC for England.

Q3, India 2-2 England: Errors from both sides, Harmanpreet’s mistake not punished by England. Neither coach will be happy.

Q3, India 2-2 England: Shilanand slips as Abhishek tries to feed him through. Ball a bit behind him too. India have started well.

Both coaches want mistakes to be avoided. That would do it. India have finished games strongly, so they should still fancy this. Q3 begins, 2-2.

Coach Graham Reid: Not really happy to be honest, we need to get pressure on them, Had a good period in the middle of the second quarter and then made mistakes. Need to control the ball a bit better.

HALF TIME: A strange half of hockey in terms of the ebbs and flows, but exciting stuff nevertheless. England have done much better with the ball though. Coach Reid would want that to change. 2-2 at half time.

Half time, India 2-2 England: On the balance of play, 2-2 is a fair scoreline going into half time.

HALF TIME, India 2-2 England: A strange quarter of hockey comes to an end. Neither side took control in the early parts but it burst into life at the end.

Q2, India 2-2 England: GOAL ENGLAND! Nicholas Bandurak again. England earn a PC and this time the drag flick is low and straight and through Pathak in goal. Could he have done better? Perhaps, the rush missed the shot too and that didn’t help him.

Q2, India 2-1 England: GOAL INDIA!!! And England lose their referral. Shamsher gets the goal as there are no own goals in hockey. Shamsher hit the post with his shot, the ball came out back but the English defender is unable to clear it on time.

Q2, India 1-1 England: A goal is given to India after an almighty scramble, but it is reviewed immediately. A push? It has crossed the line... we wait.

Q2, India 1-1 England: OH, brilliant counter from India led by Jugraj out of the defence and then Gursahibjit Singh combines well. But there is a back-stick at the end.

Q2, India 1-1 England: India pegged into their own circle at the moment. 6 mins and a bit more to go in the half.

Q2, India 1-1 England: Alright, both Manpreet and Amit are on the bench. Should be fine. But nothing much to write about the match at the moment... England push forward as we say that. Brilliant save by Pathak as Ansell unleashes a powerful hit.

Q2, India 1-1 England: A bit cagey at the moment. 5 mins done in Q2. The commentator tells us Amit Rohidas has gone down the tunnel for some reason.

Q2, India 1-1 England: Krishan Pathak is in goal for India now, as they rotate the GKs per usual.

End of Q1: England got the first goal but India struck back through Abhishek. Sets up the match well.

Q1, India 1-1 England: GOAL INDIA! Fine finish by Abhishek. A brutal reverse hit to get the goal. Nice pullback reverse pass by Shamsher to set it up. It was all about the assist to be honest! India’s late pressure pays off.

Q1, India 0-1 England: Better from India as the quarter winds down. A bit more purpose to their possession.

Q1, India 0-1 England: Score correction. About 7 mins left in the quarter and India are yet to wake up.

Q1, India 0-1 England: GOAL ENGLAND! And that’s no less than what they deserved. Nicholas BANDURAK with a drag flick past Sreejesh, to the Indian GK’s left.

Q1, India 0-0 England: Another PC for England. This has been a good start by the visitors.

Q1, India 0-0 England: A deflection from Surender, it was going wide on the angle anyway.

Q1, India 0-0 England: Good review, there is indeed a back-stick. PC for England and the drag flick goes wide. Did it hit the post? Looked close.

Q1, India 0-0 England: Well if Reid wanted to see high energy from the start, he will be a bit disappointed. Manpreet of all people miscontrols the ball in midfield and England push forward, the defence holds on. Now there is a review from England for a PC against India.

Q1, India 0-0 England: Ansell and Sam Ward nearly combine brilliantly down the right. The cutback doesn’t get a final touch. Goes wide.

Q1, India 0-0 England: Pushback!

National anthems done! WE are all set (I think I spotted India coach Graham Reid mouthing the lyrics to Jana Gana Mana, that was nice to see!) A smattering of fans in the stadium, mostly from the hostels at the venue. Still no fans as we are used to at Kalinga.

via FIH Twitter

India coach Graham Reid: What I really want tonight, is a real energy with the ball. That’s what really going for, and a tighter defence. Make some tackles outside the circle.

Recent Head-to-Head: (This wouldn’t include India’s win against GBR at Tokyo 2020)

ICYMI: The scheduled FIH Pro League double-header between the women’s hockey teams of India and England was postponed on Tuesday due to a COVID-19 outbreak in the English camp. The matches, which were scheduled to be played before the men’s matches on April 2 and 3 at the Kalinga Stadium in Bhubaneswar, had been postponed “due to a high number of COVID cases and injuries affecting the English team.”

07.30 pm: Hello all and welcome to our live coverage of Indian hockey as Indian men’s team take on England for the first of back-to-back matches in Odisha this weekend in what promises to be another cracking set of FIH Pro League matches.

Currently placed second in the FIH Hockey Pro League points table, India has thus far registered five wins and two losses in eight matches (one draw resulting in a shootout defeat). They have beaten South Africa (10-2, 10-2) and registered mixed results in the double header against France (5-0, 2-5) held in South Africa in February, while in home games, they shared the honours with Spain (5-4, 3-5) and against Argentina they registered 2-2 (1-3 SO defeat) and 4-3 results in a thrilling two-legged tie.

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