India Men's Hockey team will look to level the series in their fourth game against Australia
(Courtesy : Hockey India)
Australia currently leads the series at 2-1.
India and Australia will lock horns for the fourth time in the five-match test series on 3rd December and the former needs to win to keep their hopes alive with Australia leading 2-1. India came back strongly in the third game beating Australia 4-3 scoring two goals in the last quarter and showing promising signs.
Harmanpreet Singh is known for his power during the penalty corners but scored in the last game merely by placing the ball in the right direction into the goal post. The defence has to show consistency and perform in a similar fashion.
Schedule
3rd December 2022 - 11:00 AM IST
Players to Watch
India
Akashdeep Singh
Akashdeep Singh has been one of the bright stars for India in this series having scored a hat trick in the first game itself. He was then made to rest in the second match but came back into the third match with great confidence. Singh scored the winning goal for India in the last minute of the match thereby breaking the 12-match unbeaten held by Australia. He has good support from Mandeep Singh who provided a crucial assist in the last game.
Australia
Tom Craig
Tom Craig has been in good touch since the start of the series and is Australia's main forward going ahead. Craig has been out of action for quite some time due to injuries and needs to look after himself with the world cup just a month ahead. With Glovers injured Craig would take up additional responsibility.
India Squad
Harmanpreet Singh (c), Amit Rohidas (v/c), Krishan Bahadur Pathak, Sreejesh Parattu Raveendran, Jarmanpreet Singh, Surender Kumar, Jugraj Singh, Mandeep Mor, Nilam Sanjeep Xess, Varun Kumar, Sumit, Manpreet Singh, Hardik Singh, Shamsher Singh, Nilakanta Sharma, Rajkumar Pal, Mohd Raheel Mouseen, Akashdeep Singh, Gurjant Singh, Mandeep Singh, Abhishek, Dilpreet Singh, Sukhjeet Singh.
Australia Squad
Jacob Anderson, Daniel Beale, Josh Beltz, Andrew Charter, James Collins, Tom Craig, Matthew Dawson, Johan Durst, Nathan Ephraums, Blake Govers, Jake Harvie, Jeremy Hayward, Tim Howard, Dylan Martin, Eddie Ockenden, Flynn Ogilvie, Ben Rennie, Lachlan Sharp, Jack Welch, Jake Whetton, Tom Wickham, Ky Willott, Aran Zalewski.
Prediction
India and Australia were cautious in the defence in the last encounter with India showing good consistency in the defence. Colin Batch’s side will come back harder after the loss in the third game and with Grover injured the coach has to rethink the strategy if the former is not available. India coach Graham Reid will be satisfied with the effort put in by the Indian side and now needs to work more on the secondary penalty corner specialist.
Prediction
Australia 4 - 3 India
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