Get Instant News Updates
Enable
x
Notification Settings X
Time Settings
Done
Clear Notification X
Do you want to clear all the notifications from your inbox?
Settings X
For Quick Alerts
ALLOW NOTIFICATIONS  
For Daily Alerts

India Vs Australia: Shootout controversy mars Champions Trophy final

By Ians English

London, June 18: The Champions Trophy final saw controversy and high drama when the Indian hockey team lodged a protest during the penalty shootout before finally settling for a historic silver after the jury announced that the 1-3 result against Australia would stay.

Champions Trophy: India lose final to Australia after protesting in shootoutChampions Trophy: India lose final to Australia after protesting in shootout

Champions Trophy: Twitterati congratulate Indian Hockey team for winning medal after 34 years

The jury then cited this as the reason why the shootout was re-taken and declared the Kookaburas as the gold medallists.

Earlier, after the 60 minutes of regulation play remained goalless, Australian goalkeeper Tyler Lovell denied SK Uthappa, SV Sunil and Surender Kumar in the penalty shootout to drive Australia to their 14th Champions Trophy title -- the most by any side.

Harmanpreet Singh was the only scorer for India, while Aran Zalewski, Daniel Beale, Simon Orchard succeeded for Australia. Sreejesh could only deny Trent Mitton.

However, it was India's best performance in the history of the tournament. India's previous best performance at the Champions Trophy was a bronze medal in 1982.

IANS

Story first published: Tuesday, August 8, 2017, 10:59 [IST]
Other articles published on Aug 8, 2017