Running in Ranchi, the capital of Jharkhand FIH Women’s Hockey Qualifier India entered the semi-finals with pride by defeating Italy 5-0. Now India will face Germany on Thursday. Japan will face America in the second semi-final. India won a penalty corner in the very first minute of the match and Udita Converted it into a goal and gave the team the lead. After this India also did not look back. India’s daughters performed brilliantly today and kept the ball in their possession most of the time. India did not give Italy a chance to score even a single penalty corner.
Deepika doubled India’s lead by scoring the second goal in the 41st minute. This was a penalty shootout. Jharkhand’s daughter Salima Tete scored a brilliant field goal in the 45th minute of the match, increasing India’s lead to 3. Navneet Kaur scored the fourth goal for India in the last quarter. He scored a brilliant field goal in the 53rd minute. For the fifth goal, the Indian team got full support from the spectators and the entire stadium was packed.