Pakistan Beat India 6-3 in Field Hockey, SALTA: Argentina: Pakistan beat India 6-3 to set up a final against New Zealand in Champions Challenge field hockey.
New Zealand held out two-time defending champion and host Argentina 3-2 to reach Sunday’s final, where the winner will qualify for the Champions Trophy next July in Moenchengladbach, Germany.
Pakistan took only two minutes to score, through Rehan Butt, who would collect a hat trick in another classic match between the archrivals.
While two Pakistan players were cooling off on cards, India forced a penalty corner and leveled through Dhananjay Mahadik. India continued to enjoy the run of play, but Pakistan nailed its chances with Butt shooting home and Sohail Abbas adding a penalty corner goal for a 3-1 halftime lead.
After the break, India dominated, but its desperation to score left the defense vulnerable, and Haseem Khan’s goal against the run of play made it 4-1. There were four goals in the last eight minutes, with Butt claiming his third and Abbas his second. Mahadik also finished with a pair for India.
As in the Pakistan-India semifinal, New Zealand scored quickly, with Andrew Hayward converting a penalty corner to hush the home crowd. Argentina’s penalty corner specialist Pedro Ibarra claimed his sixth goal of the tournament to draw level, but just before halftime Phillip Burrows finished a counterattack to send New Zealand ahead into the break.
After Shea McAleese’s penalty corner goal 10 minutes into the second half gave New Zealand 3-1, Argentina’s attack ramped up but continued to be bottled by the New Zealand defense until four minutes from the end, when Lucas Vila’s counterattack field goal gave the home side renewed hope, but without enough time.
was first posted on December 13, 2009 at 12:22 pm.
NAPIER: Butt and Farhat Halve Large NZ Lead, Pakistan’s batsmen openers scored 128 runs without loss at third day stumps as Salman Butt 66 and Imran Farhat 55 holding crease still 120 runs behind New Zealand’s 471 runs in first innings.
Captain Vettori 134, was the top scorer of the home side.
Pakistan opening pair applied themselves and with a determined performance cut the first-innings deficit by more than half though still trailing by 120 runs with two days remaining.
Earlier New Zealand was all out at 471 runs in their first innings. Daryl Tuffey, whose previous best was 35, almost reached his maiden Test hundred as New Zealand gained control of the deciding Test in Napier. It took a special catch to dismiss Daniel Vettori, and Tuffey was eventually left stranded on 80, but by then they had given New Zealand a first-innings lead of 248. Danish Kaneria took three wickets to complete a seven-wicket haul.
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