India vs South Africa Highlights, Hockey World Cup
Team India finished its Hockey World Cup campaign with a 5-2 win over South Africa to finish joint 9th alongside Argentina. For this edition, classification matches were reduced in number by the International Hockey Federation.
As a result, there were no classification matches for places 5-8th and then the matches for places 9-16th were also reduced in number and joint winners were declared for places, 9th and 13th. As a result, the teams which lost in the classification games for the 9th and 13th positions respectively were jointly given the 11th and 15th position.
Thus, while India finished ninth Jointly with Argentina which beat Wales, Malaysia finished 13th, jointly with France as they beat Japan and Chile respectively in their matches. Earlier in the 9-16th place classification matches, India beat Japan, South Africa defeated Malaysia, Argentina beat Chile and Wales went past France.
On the final day of the tournament i.e. on Sunday, Australia will face the Netherlands in a bronze medal match while Germany will try and stop Belgium from winning back-to-back World Cups as the two teams meet in the final.
India Hockey World Cup Squad
P.R. Sreejesh, Krishna Pathak, Jarmanpreet Singh, Surender Kumar, Harmanpreet Singh (Captain), Varun Kumar, Amit Rohidas (Vice Captain), Nilam Sanjeep Xess, Manpreet Singh, Rajkumar Pal, Nilakanta Sharma, Shamsher Singh, Vivek Sagar Prasad, Akashdeep Singh, Mandeep Singh, Lalit Kumar Upadhyay, Abhishek, Sukhjeet Singh
South Africa Hockey World Cup Squad
Bili Ntuli, Jethro Eustice, Brad Sherwood, Keenan Horne, Connor Beauchamp, Mustapha Cassiem, Dan Bell, Nic Spooner, Dayaan Cassiem(captain), Peabo Lembethe, Estiaan Kriek(gk), Ryan Julius, Gowan Jones(gk), Sam Mvimbi, Guy Morgan, Sihle Ngubane, Jacques van Tonder, Tevin Kok, Anton van Loggerenberg, Taine Paton, Clayton Saker, Trevor de Lora, Dan Sibbald, Tyson Dlungwana, Luke Wynford, Zenani Kraai
India vs South Africa, 9-12th place Classification Highlights: Catch all the updates from the match at Birsa Munda International Hockey Stadium in Rourkela below
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