<p>Defending champions India bounced back from their loss to Great Britain in style with a 6-0 thrashing of arch-rivals Pakistan in their third match of the Under-21 Sultan of Johor Cup at the Taman Daya Stadium, here today.<br /><br /></p>.<p>The two teams played traditional hockey in the first 15 minutes but the Harjeet Singh-led side started its dominance soon after and the aggression paid off with a penalty-corner conversion by forward Imran Khan in the 22nd minute.<br /><br />The vice-captain's powerful strike was defended by Pakistan goalkeeper Muhammad Khalid but he had no answer to Imran's rebound, which gave India the lead.<br /><br />The Indian team soon doubled its score through Parvinder Singh from open play in the 34th minute.<br /><br />Armaan Qureshi continued India's surge with another field goal in the 49th minute.<br />India struck again four minutes later, this time through Harmanpreet Singh from a penalty corner. Varun Kumar converted another penalty corner in the 67th minute.<br /><br />Still hungry for more, Armaan netted his second goal of the match via a penalty corner to make it six-nil for India and coach Harendra Singh was sure satisfied with the performance.<br /><br />"It's good win but there's still lot of areas to improve," said Harendra.<br />"I'm happy we didn't lose our emotions. The input given to the players were well executed by them.<br /><br />"I have to give credit to my players. They switch from fast play to holding the ball very well. It was a display of maturity," he added.<br /><br />India, who beat New Zealand in their first league game, will take on hosts Malaysia on Friday.<br /><br />In another interesting game, the Australian U-21 side came from three goals down to edge past New Zealand 4-3 and stay atop the league table in the six-nation tournament.</p>
<p>Defending champions India bounced back from their loss to Great Britain in style with a 6-0 thrashing of arch-rivals Pakistan in their third match of the Under-21 Sultan of Johor Cup at the Taman Daya Stadium, here today.<br /><br /></p>.<p>The two teams played traditional hockey in the first 15 minutes but the Harjeet Singh-led side started its dominance soon after and the aggression paid off with a penalty-corner conversion by forward Imran Khan in the 22nd minute.<br /><br />The vice-captain's powerful strike was defended by Pakistan goalkeeper Muhammad Khalid but he had no answer to Imran's rebound, which gave India the lead.<br /><br />The Indian team soon doubled its score through Parvinder Singh from open play in the 34th minute.<br /><br />Armaan Qureshi continued India's surge with another field goal in the 49th minute.<br />India struck again four minutes later, this time through Harmanpreet Singh from a penalty corner. Varun Kumar converted another penalty corner in the 67th minute.<br /><br />Still hungry for more, Armaan netted his second goal of the match via a penalty corner to make it six-nil for India and coach Harendra Singh was sure satisfied with the performance.<br /><br />"It's good win but there's still lot of areas to improve," said Harendra.<br />"I'm happy we didn't lose our emotions. The input given to the players were well executed by them.<br /><br />"I have to give credit to my players. They switch from fast play to holding the ball very well. It was a display of maturity," he added.<br /><br />India, who beat New Zealand in their first league game, will take on hosts Malaysia on Friday.<br /><br />In another interesting game, the Australian U-21 side came from three goals down to edge past New Zealand 4-3 and stay atop the league table in the six-nation tournament.</p>