IND vs NZ Hockey World Cup Highlights: India lose shoot-out, bow out of WC

India vs New Zealand Crossover, Hockey World Cup 2023 Highlights: India will not finish on the podium once again and all the hype of a World Cup medal has come to an end as hosts lose 5-4 in shoot-out

7:54 PM

India vs New Zealand Live Score, Hockey World Cup Crossover: Lane scores, Kiwis back in it

 

IND 2-1 NZ

 

2nd Quarter

 

01 Minute to go 

 

New Zealand have come back in the game right at halftime as Simon Child, Finley and Sam Lane executed a great play to get the game. Finley got the ball near the Indian 30-meter mark and then passed it to Child who ran on the backline and passed it parallel to Krishan Pathak and past him to Lane on the far post who was kneeling with his stick on the hockey line and got the ball into the goal.

 

7:49 PM

India vs New Zealand Live Score, Hockey World Cup Crossover: Sukhjeet scores his first goal

 

IND 2-0 NZ

 

2nd Quarter

 

05 Minutes to go 

 

India finally score on the penalty corner although it has not come courtesy of Harmanpreet. Harmanpreet was on the battery and drag-flicked it straight into the goal. Dixon defended the ball and it rose up high in the air. Sukhjeet was placed right in front of the post and put the ball in the goal with an overhead smash. 

 

7:46 PM

India vs New Zealand Live Score, Hockey World Cup Crossover: Dom Dixon with a great save

 

IND 1-0 NZ

 

2nd Quarter

 

06 Minutes to go 

 

New Zealand goalkeeper Dom Dixon was excellent during the fourth Indian penalty corner as he saved brilliantly a drive from Lalit Upadhyay as India worked a variation in the PC

 

7:43 PM

India vs New Zealand Live Score, Hockey World Cup Crossover: Nilkanta Sharma’s goal disallowed

 

IND 1-0 NZ

 

2nd Quarter

 

06 Minutes to go

 

Nilakanta Sharma of India scored with a pass from the back line of the New Zealand defence after a penalty corner was saved by the Kiwi goalkeeper. The goal was given by the on-field umpire and New Zealand reviewed it. On the review, it came out as a back stick from India’s Abhishek and the goal was disallowed. 

 

7:38 PM

India vs New Zealand Live Score, Hockey World Cup Crossover: Penalty corner for India

 

IND 1-0 NZ

 

2nd Quarter

 

08 Minutes to go 

 

The Indian attack is now working in tandem as Lait and ABhsihesk work it around the backline and get a dangerous ball from the Kiwis to get India’s second PC. 

 

7:35 PM

India vs New Zealand Live Score, Hockey World Cup Crossover: Lalit Upadhyay scores, India take lead

 

IND 1-0 NZ

 

2nd Quarter

 

12 Minutes to go 

 

India are up and running in the second quarter as brilliant work from Akashdeep Singh has come off. He stole the ball in the Indian 23 and passed it to Abhishek who then passed to Lalit on his right. The experienced player just needed to put the goal past the Kiwi goal-keeper which he does and India are now 1-0 up 

 

7:31 PM

India vs New Zealand Live Score, Hockey World Cup Crossover: Kiwis waste another chance

 

IND 0-0 NZ

 

2nd Quarter

 

A great chance has gone begging for New Zealand as King Kingston needed to just hit the ball in the post as it was passed to him from the backline by Simon Child. 

 

7:29 PM

India vs New Zealand Live Score, Hockey World Cup Crossover: First quarter ends 0-0

 

IND 0-0 NZ

 

1st quarter ends

 

The first quarter of the cross-over game ended 0-0 as India wasted the only penalty corner of the quarter. New Zealand got the chance to have a shot at goal through Simon Child, but PR Sreejesh was uptight at the goalpost 

 

7:27 PM

India vs New Zealand Live Score, Hockey World Cup: Harmanpreet misses another PC

 

IND 0-0 NZ

 

1st quarter 

 

1 Minute to go

 

Harmanpreet Singh misses yet another penalty corner as his miserable run with the drag flicks in this World Cup continues and India waste another shot

 

7:25 PM

India vs New Zealand Live Score, Hockey World Cup: Penalty Corner to India

 

IND 0-0 NZ

 

Two minutes to go

 

Rajkumar Pal has been tickled in the 18-meter D and courtesy of that India have been awarded the first penalty corner of the game 

 

7:22 PM

India vs New Zealand Live Score, Hockey World Cup: Green card for Manpreet

 

It is going card for card it seems as India’s former skipper Manpreet Singh has been green-carded for playing the ball after the whistle 

 

7:21 PM

India vs New Zealand Live Score, Hockey World Cup: Nic Woods 2-minute suspension

 

New Zealand skipper Nic Woods has been sent off for two minutes as a green card was shown to him for a tackle on Indian striker Abhishek who was on the move to get the ball in the attacking third. 

 

7:18 PM

India vs New Zealand Live Score, Hockey World Cup: Great attempt by New Zealand

 

At the end of the first six minutes, New Zealand are the first side to get a real chance at the goal and it came through a lifted ball. Just after that shot on goal, India came running on the counter-attack but Lalit Upadhyay messed up a chance as well. 

 

7:13 PM

India vs New Zealand Live Score, Hockey World Cup: The lineups are out

7:11 PM

India vs New Zealand Live Score, Hockey World Cup: The national anthems are done

 

It was a great environment on the ground as the Indian national anthem was sung by almost the entire crowd at the Kalinga Stadium