Aichi-Nagoya [Japan], September 24 (ANI): Indian girls’s hockey participant Deepika Sehrawat credited her constant drag-flicking and centered preparation for her spectacular goal-scoring run on the Aichi-Nagoya Asian Video games 2026, saying the crew’s consideration stays on sustaining their model of play forward of the more durable matches.
Deepika Sehrawat has already scored 20 targets in three matches for the Indian girls’s hockey crew on the Asian Video games 2026. She netted a document 9 targets towards Thailand on Wednesday, turning into the primary Indian girl hockey participant to attain 9 targets in a single Asian Video games match.
India’s girls’s hockey crew continued its goal-scoring spree on the Asian Video games, thrashing Thailand 20-1 of their Pool B match on the Kawasaki Juko Stadium. Whereas Deepika led the cost with 9 targets, Navneet Kaur scored 4 and Rutuja Dadaso Pisal added three. Lalremsiami, Neha, Sakshi and Salima Tete additionally discovered the web as India registered their third consecutive emphatic victory within the competitors.
Thailand’s solely purpose got here by Samanso Supansa within the 57th minute.
In a video uploaded by Hockey India on X, Deepika stated her drag-flicking has been going easily and attributed her success to the steering offered by the teaching workers earlier than each sport.
“It is simply that my drag-flicking goes very easily proper now. I really feel relaxed about it, and my focus is sharp. Earlier than each match, Coach decides the place to intention and reveals us how one can beat the primary rushers, so I feel that makes issues so much simpler. We have now powerful matches lined up forward, so let’s see-all the preparation is aimed in direction of these video games,’ she stated.
The Indian crew will subsequent face hosts Japan on Friday earlier than taking up Singapore on Sunday of their remaining Pool B matches.
Deepika stated Japan are a powerful aspect however pressured that India’s focus will stay on their very own sport. She stated the crew must proceed changing possibilities, keep self-discipline, push up in defence, assault and defend as a unit, and keep on with their model of hockey to safe victory.
“Japan is undoubtedly a powerful aspect, however greater than focusing an excessive amount of on them, we have to concentrate on ourselves. Simply as we have been changing possibilities, we have to maintain scoring targets like that, keep disciplined and push up in protection, assault as a whole unit, and defend as a whole crew. They’re a superb crew, indubitably, but when we keep on with our model of hockey and play our personal sport, we will certainly win that match,’ she added.
India had earlier opened their marketing campaign with a 19-0 win over Uzbekistan, with Deepika scoring eight targets and Ishika finishing a hat-trick. They adopted it up with a 17-goal efficiency towards Indonesia earlier than including 20 towards Thailand. (ANI)
