Webdesk: On Saturday in Chennai, India overcame Malaysia 4-3 in a seven-goal thriller to win the Asian Hockey Champions Trophy 2023.
The Blues won the final against Malaysia after a stunning comeback.
India started well as Jugraj Singh converted a penalty corner in the 9th minute.
Azrai Abu Kamal scored his team’s first goal before the end of the first quarter to tie the game.
In the next quarter, Malaysia scored two more goals to make it 3-1.
Rahim Razie and Mohammad Aminuddin scored in the 18th and 28th minutes of the second quarter to give the visitors an advantage over the Blues.
However, India did not want to disappoint their home fans, so they charged against Malaysia and scored two goals in the last minute of the third quarter, with skipper Harmanpreet Singh and Gurjant Singh making it 3-3.
India’s Akashdeep Singh scored in the 56th minute to cap a stunning comeback in the final quarter.
Harmanpreet scored nine goals, four more than Pakistan’s Mohammad Sufyan Khan.
India scored 29 goals, the most in the Asian competition, and scored 16 penalty corner goals.
Pakistan finished fifth in the competition, winning two games against China. They drew Korea and Japan and fell to the finalists India and Malaysia.