Mumbai, Tamil Nadu, Chandigarh, Punjab and hosts Madhya Pradesh have entered the quarter-finals of the 63rd Rangaswami Cup Senior National Men’s Hockey Championship being played at the Aishbagh Stadium here.
Mumbai qualified by crushing Manipur 4-1 while Tamil Nadu made its place in the last eight by defeating Maharashtra 2-1 yesterday.
Punjab, Chandigarh, and hosts Madhya Pradesh State Hockey Academy (MPSHA), Bhopal have already entered the quarter-finals earlier.
The sixth team for the quarter-finals would be decided from Karnataka and Haryana after their this evening’s fixture while one team each would come from Pool A and Pool H in which matches will begin today.
Pool A contains Delhi, Jharkhand, Pondicherry and Tripura while Orissa, Uttarakhand and SAIL are in Pool H.
For Mumbai, Jaiyesh Jadhav, Alden and Gursev Singh converted penalty corners in the 44th, 52nd and 58th minutes while Amit hit a brilliant field goal in the 49th minute and took a lead of 4-0.
The lone goal for Manipur was scored by R K Anandjeet through penalty corner in the 66th minute and reduced the margin 4-1.
Till breather, no team was able to open their account.
In another fixture, the lone field goal for Mahrashtra was hit by Santosh in the 32nd minute and took a lead of 1-0.
However, in the second half, Tamil Nadu played an attacking game and scored two field goals in a span of three minutes through Adam Sinklaiyer and R Sathyarajan in the 57th and 60 minutes and ensured their team’s victory.
In other matches, Rajasthan trounced Madhya Pradesh 5-1 and Haryana crushed Andhra Pradesh 10-1.
