The FIH Girls’s World Cup didn't go as anticipated for the Indian girls’s hockey group however striker Navneet Kaur on Thursday stated the facet will look to raised its efficiency on the Commonwealth Video games in Birmingham. India completed ninth within the World Cup.
The group started the marketing campaign with a 1-1 draw towards England. In its subsequent match, it was held to a 1-1 draw by China. India’s last group stage match resulted in a 3-4 defeat to New Zealand.
India had an opportunity to go to the quarterfinals regardless of ending third within the group stage. Nevertheless, they missed out on the chance to complete within the prime 8 after a 0-1 loss to Spain.
Talking about India’s loss to Spain, Navneet stated, “After we misplaced the match towards Spain, we have been completely disenchanted however knew we needed to shortly put that match behind us and concentrate on the upcoming video games towards Canada and Japan.
“The one factor we needed was to register good wins towards these two groups and end our World Cup marketing campaign on a constructive word,” she continued.
Of their Ninth-Sixteenth place sport, India defeated Canada 2-3 through shootout after the sport was tied at 1-1 on the finish of regulation time.
Following that, India defeated Japan 3-1 within the Ninth-Twelfth place match on Wednesday night time on the Estadi Olimpic de Terrassa to complete ninth within the last standings.
“I really feel we might have carried out even higher towards Canada and never let the match go right into a shootout. However we missed many probabilities within the circle. In opposition to Japan, it was essential we improvised our probabilities and we pushed them from the phrase go,” Navneet additional stated. India will kick off their CWG marketing campaign towards Ghana on July 29.
