Haryana post 2-1 victory over Bhopal

BANGALORE, September 23, 2012: Defending champion Haryana rallied from a goal deficit to beat Bhopal 2-1 in its opening Group A league game in the 2nd Hockey India National Championship for Senior Men here today. Didar Singh and Mandeep Antil scored for Haryana after Affan Yousuf put the debutant team ahead in the 10th minute.

The results:

Pool A: Haryana: 2 (Didar Singh 20, Mandeep Antil 51) bt Bhopal: 1 (Affan Yousuf 10); Puducherry: 7 (Kamala Kannan 5, 17, 43, 59, Karthigeyan 12, Jairaj 13, 53) bt Maharashtra: 2 (Irshad Mirza 64, Vijay Tapa).

Pool C: Punjab 12 (Gurjinder Singh 9, Prabhdeep Singh 15, 43, own goal 24, Talwinder Singh 25, 59, 61, Ravipal Singh 26, Akashdeep Singh 30, Sarvanjit Singh 50, 67, Vikramjit Singh 56) bt Jammu and Kashmir 1 (own goal42). Chattisgarh w.o. Arunachal Pradesh.

Pool E: Rajasthan 6 (Naresh 14, 17, 54, OG 48, Harpreet 62, Jaisham 68) bt Nagaland 1 (Keduneizo 29);

Pool G: Kerala 11 (Muhammed Murthla 2, 16, 47, 62, E. Sarin 6, 52, 57, S. Adarse 15, Joshan George 24, S.S. Vishnu 60, 63) bt Gujarat: 0. Odisha 2 (Amit Rohitdas 12, Mikhal Barla 18) drew with Tamil Nadu 2 (Rupinderpal Singh 38, 43).

A HI Press release