IPOH, Malaysia: Pakistan defeated their arch rivals India 3-1 in a crucial match of the Azlan Shah Hockey Cup here on Wednesday. India made breakthrough when Rupinderpal Singh scored the first goal in the 22nd minute and India were leading 1-0 at the half-time. But after 27 minutes, Pakistan hit back strongly scoring three goals in eight minutes. First, Muhammad Zubair leveled the score in the 49th minute, then Muhammad Imran netted second goal in the 55th minute and two minutes later, Sohail Abbas made the third goal for Pakistan. Source Geo News

Pakistan Hockey team has defeated Malaysia in Asian Games of 2010 in Guangzhou by 2-0 score. This long awaited victory has sparked widespread celebrations all over Pakistan. The last time Pakistan had won the Asian Games was in 1990, in Beijing when Pakistan Hockey team defeated India by 3-2.
Malaysia had gone into the final as the only unbeaten team in the competition with four wins and a draw.
This is the second Asian Games Gold medal for Pakistan in a day, interestingly Pakistan Squash team also defeated Malaysia to hold the top position on victory stand of Squash.
With this victory Pakistan has qualified for Olympics. This is the same team who was ranked at 12 in previous Hockey World Cup and Hockey was not even include in the national games of Pakistan in 2010.
Sohail Abbas was the one to score first goal in the 28th minute when he converted from a penalty corner whereas Rihan Butt scored second and decisive goal in the beginning of second half of the match when he hit a close-range goal from open play.
But Salman Akbar, goalkeeper of Pakistan Hockey team, is considered to be the actual hero and main character in this victory. He saved two definite goals for Pakistan in the final match. It was his extraordinary performance in the semi finals against South Korea who brought Pakistan in the finals when he saved 4 out of 7 penalty strokes.  He was no doubt the best player of this tournament.
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LAHORE: The national hockey team returned home after bagging great victory of test series against England, Geo News reported Sunday. National team Coach Shahid Ali Khan said despite partial umpiring, Pakistan defeated England at their home ground. The national hockey team including 17 players, three officials including Coach Shahid Ali, arrived home in Lahore this morning by Pakistan International Airlines. While, Goalkeeper Salman Akbar and Asif Bajwah did not accompany the team from London. Talking to media at Allama Iqbal International Airport, Shahid Ali said the team played very well, adding the combination of junior and senior players turned out very good. The future of hockey is bright in Pakistan, he added. Captain Zeeshan Ashraf Pakistan Hockey Federation should hold matches with strong teams of Holland and Germany, so that the fitness and game of the players could be enhanced.

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LONDON: Pakistan hockey team has defeated England convincingly in the second test mach here by 3-2 goals, thus bagging the three-match test series by 2-0 on Friday, Geo news said.
In the thirteenth minute of the first half, Waqas Shareef scored first goal from Pakistan while Muhammad Imran, scoring second goal from Pakistan in the twenty-fifth minute of the first half, got Pakistan 2-0 lead.
The team gradually lost grip on the match in the second half but in the fifty-fifth minute of the match, Hafeez Khan made the third goal from Pakistan however, English team, coming back into the game, had managed to score two goals thirteen minutes before the final whistle of the match.
Consequently, Pakistan hockey thrashed England by 3-2 in the second test match, winning the test series by 2-0.

Pakistan Beat Argentina

KARACHI ( 2009-06-11 20:14:33 ) : Pakistan junior hockey team beat Argentina by 3-2 today in Junior Hockey World Cup in Johor Bahru, Malaysia.

Pakistan has won Junior World Cup title 30 years back in 1979.

Pakistan has defeated Russia and Egypt earlier in the tournament formidably by 7-2 and 3-0 respectively. Haseem Khan scored a hat-trick in the first match while in the second match he scored two goals.

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LAHORE: Pakistan cruised to the final of 8th Men’s Asia Cup after beating hosts Malaysia by 4-2 in the second semi-final at Kuantan, Malaysia on Thursday. Earlier, Korea beat China by 5-1 in the first semi final.
The final match between Pakistan and Korea will be played on 16th May. According to the information received from Malaysia, the match between Pakistan and Malaysia match was played at a fast tempo.
Pakistan outplayed Malaysia in all fields. The match was tied by 1-1 at the end of the first half. Abu Ismail of Malaysia scored the first goal in 3rd minute. Rehan Butt leveled the goal in 18th minute. Akhtar Ali scored the second goal from Pakistan in 46th minute.
Rehan Butt scored the third goal in 63rd minute, while Abdul Haseem Khan scored the fourth goal in 67th minute. Malaysia got its fourth penalty corner in the last 70th minute of the match. Angkoo Malek scored the second goal on that penalty corner. India and
Japan will play the match for 5th and 6th position on Friday. Final match between Pakistan and Korea will be played on 16th May at 1730 (PST), while bronze medal match will be played between China and Malaysia at 1500 (PST) on Saturday.

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KUANTAN: Pakistan crushed Malaysia 4-2 to qualify for the final of the Asia Cup Hockey Tournament here on Thursday.
They will now meet South Korea in the final on Saturday.
In the semi-final, three-time champions Pakistan outplayed hosts Malaysia by a convincing margin of 4 goals against two.
For Pakistan, Rehan Butt scored two goals while haseem Khan and Akhtar Ali netted one goal each.
On the other hand, Ismail Abu made both goals for Malaysia.
This may be recalled that Pakistan after a long period have entered the final of any international tournament.
In the other semi-final, South Korea defeated China 5-1 while India beat Bangladesh 11-1 to secure the seventh position in the tournament.

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Pakistan Junior Hockey Team

Pakistan Junior Hockey Team won the four nation junior hockey tournament after beating India in the final match by 3-2 at Johor Bahru,
Malaysia on Sunday.
Pakistan got victory in the extra time. India was leading by 1-0 at the half time, while the score was 2-2 at the end of the full time. Captain Abdul Haseem Khan scored two goals in 37th and 72nd minute, while Muhammad Zubair scored a goal in 71st minute. Both goals were scored by India in 22nd and 46th minute by Mandeep Patel.
Coach Pakistan Junior hockey team Khawaja Muhammad Junaid said in a statement that Pakistan team played the tremendously in the the match. This is the good sign for Pakistan team to win the first tournament before the junior world cup in June. He hoped that Pakistan team will also win the five nation tournament in Egypt starting from 21st March.
Meanwhile, President Pakistan Hockey Federation Qasim Zia, Secretary Muhammad Asif Bajwa, Olympian Rana Mujahid Ali and Chief selector Hassan Sardar congratulated the Pakistan junior team for winning the tournament. They said that after this win the moral of the players will boost up for the junior world cup.

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