Indian hockey team beats South Africa in warm-up match
December 3rd, 2009 - 10:06 pm ICT by IANS ( Leave a comment )New Delhi, Dec 3 (IANS) Indian hockey team beat South Africa 3-1 in their first warm-up game before the Champions Challenge tournament at Salta, Argentina, Thursday.
V.Raghunath scored a brace while Gurvinder Chandi struck one goal.
India led 1-0 at half time after Chandi, set up by Roshan Minz who snatched the ball from a South African defender, sounded the board in the 19th minute.
After the break, Raghunath sank a penalty corner in the 45th minute to make it 2-0, but South Africa reduced the margin from their third corner.
Raghunath found the target again in the 60th minute.
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