{"id":415,"date":"2025-09-05T23:04:14","date_gmt":"2025-09-05T17:34:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/newsaxis.com\/?p=415"},"modified":"2025-09-05T23:04:15","modified_gmt":"2025-09-05T17:34:15","slug":"hockey-asia-cup-india-women-kickstart-campaign-with-thumping-win-over-thailand","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newsaxis.com\/?p=415","title":{"rendered":"Hockey Asia cup: India women kickstart campaign with thumping win over Thailand"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-gallery has-nested-images columns-default is-cropped wp-block-gallery-1 is-layout-flex wp-block-gallery-is-layout-flex\">\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"449\" height=\"299\" data-id=\"416\" src=\"https:\/\/newsaxis.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/Hockey.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-416\" srcset=\"https:\/\/newsaxis.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/Hockey.png 449w, https:\/\/newsaxis.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/Hockey-300x200.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 449px) 100vw, 449px\" \/><\/figure>\n<\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Hangzhou, The Indian women&#8217;s hockey team launched their Asia Cup 2025 journey in a dominating way as they defeated Thailand with a commanding scoreline of 11-0 in their Pool B fixture here on Friday.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Mumtaz Khan (7&#8242;, 49&#8242;), Udita (30&#8242;, 52&#8242;) and Beauty Dung Dung (45&#8242;, 54&#8242;) scored two goals apiece for India while Sangita Kumari (10&#8242;), Navneet Kaur (16&#8242;), Lalremsiami (18&#8242;), Sharmila Devi (57&#8242;) and Rutuja Dadaso Pisal (60&#8242;) also featured on the scoresheet.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>India asserted their dominance early on with two field goals from Mumtaz Khan (7&#8242;) and Sangita Kumari (10&#8242;) in the first quarter. The second quarter saw India further increasing their attacking intensity with three more goals to expand their advantage.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Experienced forward Navneet Kaur (16&#8242;) and midfielder Lalremsiami (18&#8242;) scored two back-to-back field goals followed by a penalty corner conversion from Udita (30&#8242;) to end the first half on a strong note.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The second half followed a similar trend with India&#8217;s constant attacks inside Thailand&#8217;s circle as they won four penalty corners in the third quarter through which Beauty Dung Dung (45&#8242;) scored her first goal in the 45th minute.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The final quarter of the match saw India score five goals on the trot to seal a big win in their opening encounter. Mumtaz Khan (49&#8242;), Udita (52&#8242;) and Sharmila Devi (57&#8242;) scored through penalty corners while Beauty Dung Dung (54&#8242;) and Rutuja Dadaso Pisal (60&#8242;) scored field goals for their side.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>India will next face Japan on Saturday in their second Pool B fixture.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The top two from pool A and B each will advance to a Super 4s pool stage, where the teams will compete in a secondary pool and get ranked from one to four. The bottom two teams from each pool, of the first pool stage, will play for classifications and world ranking points.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The winner of the women\u2019s competition will earn a coveted spot at the FIH Hockey World Cup Belgium and Netherlands 2026.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hangzhou, The Indian women&#8217;s hockey team launched their Asia Cup 2025 journey in a dominating way as they defeated Thailand with a commanding scoreline of 11-0 in their Pool B [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":416,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20,5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-415","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-display","category-sports","has_thumb"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsaxis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/415","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsaxis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsaxis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsaxis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsaxis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=415"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/newsaxis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/415\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":417,"href":"https:\/\/newsaxis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/415\/revisions\/417"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsaxis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/416"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsaxis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=415"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsaxis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=415"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsaxis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=415"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}