Following India’s win against Malaysia in their opening incident of the Bihar Women’s Asian Champions Trophy 2024, Director General of Bihar Sports, Ravindran Shankaran told that in 2025 a lot of national and international tournaments will take place in the state.
The Indian Women’s Hockey Team started their Bihar Women’s Asia Champions Trophy 2024 campaign with a 4-0 win over Malaysia in Rajgir on Monday (11th November 2024).
“The Asian Women Hockey Champions has been inaugurated with so much enthusiasm by the Chief Minister in the electrifying atmosphere for the first time Bihar and its people are getting to spot this. This is just the beginning. A lot of events are going to come and in the next year a lot of national and international championships are going to happen,” Ravindran Shankaran said ANI.
Udita (44′), Preeti Dubey (43′) and Sangita Kumari (8′,55′) establish the back of the net in a game that saw India create numerous chances and put on a solid defensive performance to walk away with three points.
India were slow to begin the game and Malaysia’s Nur Mohd was presented with the first opportunity to score after a clever run in behind the defence but Savita who is Indian goalkeeper was on hand to bail the team out and save them from early turns.
Malaysia earned a penalty corner soon after but the shot was diverted wide. Jolted into action, India wrestled back control over the ball and earned two penalty corners in quick succession. On the second incident after a groped stop. Deepika shot the ball towards the goal and Sangita Kumari who was wary to slot the ball into goal from close range and make it 1-0 for India.
India continued to press down the Malaysian team and created two chances for Preeti Dubey to score but Preeti was unable to convert it to the opportunity. Captain Salima Tete earned a penalty corner with 10 seconds to go but India couldn’t take advantage of.
India board shipped on another quick transition with Sangita who weaved past two defenders into the shooting circle and unleashed a reverse tomahawk to make it a brace for her on the day and end the game in India’s support.