Quarter final famous victories of India against Great Britain rewrote the set structures and scripted one of Indian hockey’s most notable victories on Sunday. In Paris, Hardik Singh raised his chest and clenched his clenched hand towards the crowd. All Indian players gathered and wrapped their arms around each other. Without knowing the score you wouldn’t know that competition was still alive. This was 1-1 at full time between India and Great Britain. The fight was still to won. The shootout, or its outcome, didn’t matter however. The shots were fired earlier, and India were damaged in vigour. In this way Indian Hockey team now into the semi-finals of the Paris Olympics 2024.
Five minutes after India getting a red card to be a player down, Harmanpreet Singh’s right arm bender and curved with higher fury after he put his team a goal up changing the penalty corner. The leader was at it once more after putting his team a goal up again, and this time in the shootout. Harmanpreet while celebrating right by the face of England goalkeeper Ollie Payne feeling personal.
This was hockey, where tried bodies and minds usually shake hands or hug with competitor bodies.But this was not normal hockey match. This was the match in which at the start of just the second quarter basic premise of 11 versus 11 was thrown out of the window.This was the match in which Indian players, a man down with 43 minutes on the clock still to run down, get up overall running for their lives.It was the match in which India felt wrongly in various forms like red card, English goalie using an iPad at the start of the shootout, refereeing, still appeared the fight and the poise to come out at the final result.