{"id":6719,"date":"2012-05-29T02:57:40","date_gmt":"2012-05-29T02:57:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/indiansportsnews.co.in\/?p=6719"},"modified":"2012-05-29T02:57:40","modified_gmt":"2012-05-29T02:57:40","slug":"azlan-shah-cup-india-beat-malaysia-3-2-to-keep-hopes-alive","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/indiansportsnews.co.in\/?p=6719","title":{"rendered":"Azlan Shah Cup: India beat Malaysia to keep hopes alive"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"images\/hockey\/bharatchetri.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\"Sultan Azlan Shah\" width=\"200\" height=\"200\" style=\"float: left; margin: 6px;\" \/>Ipoh (Malaysia): <\/strong>Five-time champions India kept alive their hopes in the Sultan Azlan Shah Cup hockey tournament with a 3-2 win over hosts Malaysia here Monday.<\/p>\n<p>India, who lost to Britain Sunday, made a quick start and dominated the proceedings right from the start, but Malaysia came back strongly from two goals down but still missed out narrowly.<\/p>\n<p>Danish Mujtaba (9th), Shivendra Singh (12th) and Tushar Khandker (43rd) struck for India while Malaysia reduced the margin through Mohammed Amin Rahim (40th) and Mohammed Fitri Saari (57th).<\/p>\n<p>What also helped India&#8217;s cause was the tournament favourites were shocked 2-3 by Argentina making it an open race for the title clash.<\/p>\n<p>Danish and Shivendra put India 2-0 ahead with just 11 minutes into the game. In the 9th minute Danish scored in a goal-mouth melee after Sarwanjit&#8217;s shot rebounded off the Malaysian goalkeeper. Shivendra struck off a penalty corner India earned in the 11th minute, when he sounded the board from the top of the circle.<\/p>\n<p>The hosts Malaysia scored their first goal in the 40th minute through Mohd Amin Rahim, who scored off a penalty corner.<\/p>\n<p>However, Tushar made it 3-1 in the very next minute. The goal was set up by Indian centre-half Sardar Singh with a well-disguised reverse pass into the circle. Sunil collected it and took the initial strike that the goalkeeper stopped. The rebound fell in front of Tushar who slotted the ball in.<\/p>\n<p>Mohd Fitri Saari scored another goal for Malaysia in the 58th minute. 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