JOIN US Ajay Kumar hammered in five goals, including a hat-trick, as title favourites Punjab crushed Gujarat 10-0 in the 62nd All-India police hockey championship here at the KSHA stadium on Monday.
Amandeep Singh, Jagjit Singh Simranjit Singh, Harinder Singh and Jagmeet Singh scored goal apiece in Punjab’s demolition job.
Results: CRPF: 2 (Prasan Tirkey 26th, Nemhas Khakha 39th) bt Manipur: 1 (Jupitor 23rd); Uttarakhand: 2 (Prakash Singh Mehra 32nd, Own Goal 47th) bt Tamil Nadu: 1 (Kandha Guru 54th); Maharashtra: 2 (Sandeep Swant 5th, Vinod Manukade 49th) bt ITBP: 0; Andhra Pradesh: 4 (Krishna Kishore V 8th, 32nd, 52nd; Ram Kiran K 59th) bt Bihar: 2 (Suleman Herman H 30th, Anil Ordan 50th); Chandigarh: 3 (Jaspal Singh 6th, Amit Kumar 37th, Gautham 47th) bt RPF: 2 (R Sarvanana 19th, P Vetrivel 27th); Punjab: 10 (Amandeep Singh 2nd, Ajay Kumar 4th, 7th, 9th, 13th, 14th, Jagjit Singh 11th, Simranjit Singh 17th, Harinder Singh 23rd, Jagmeet Singh 46th) bt Gujarat: 0; SSB: 4 (Surachandra Singh 2nd, O Gunamani Singh 25th, L Joy Chandra Singh 46th, 57th) bt Tripura: 0.