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Bhopal: Continuing their fine form, the Indian women’s hockey team defeated Belarus 2-1 in the second of their five-match Test series here on Friday.<\/p>\nBhopal: Continuing their fine form, the Indian women’s hockey team defeated Belarus 2-1 in the second of their five-match Test series here on Friday.<\/p>\n
India got off to a good start by earning a penalty corner in the ninth minute when striker Rani successfully converted the penalty corner to take a 1-0 lead.<\/p>\n
However, Belarus did well in the next two quarters to contain the Indian women and not allow them too many chances in the striking circle with strong defence.<\/p>\n
The visitors equalised in the 36th minute when Sviatlana Bahushevicha, who also scored the lone goal for Belarus on Thursday, struck a fine field goal.<\/p>\n
They continued to hold the Indian eves right till the end but a 60th minute penalty corner proved to be crucial as India managed to seal the game with Lalremsiami converting it successfully to give the hosts a 2-1 win and a 2-0 lead in the series.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Bhopal: Continuing their fine form, the Indian women’s hockey team defeated Belarus 2-1 in the second of their five-match Test series here on Friday.<\/p>\n
India got off to a good start by earning a penalty corner in the ninth minute when striker Rani successfully converted the penalty corner to take a 1-0 lead.<\/p>\n
However, Belarus did well in the next two quarters to contain the Indian women and not allow them too many chances in the striking circle with strong defence.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":23832,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[466,18866,19558,3851],"class_list":["post-33791","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-hockey-hockey","tag-indian-sports-news","tag-indian-womens-hockey-team","tag-lalremsiami","tag-rani"],"yoast_head":"\n