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Air-India (North) routs Mumbai Customs

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MUMBAI: Indian Airlines, playing under a new name — Air-India (North) — however, displayed the flowing passing and stunning goals of old at the Mahindra Stadium here to smother Mumbai Customs 7-2 in a Pool ‘B’ quarterfinal league match of the 46th Bombay Gold Cup hockey tournament.

Sameer Dad came up with three clever goals, plus a timely pass along the turf across the goalmouth for Ravinder to connect with a forward dive and sound the board.

Sandeep Singh scored twice despite a subdued role in the defence. Air-India (Mumbai), confirmed qualification for the semifinals from Pool ‘D’ by defeating Indian Navy 7-2 and topping the group ahead of Punjab Police.

The results:

Quarterfinal league: Pool ‘D’: Punjab Police 6 (Sukhdeep Singh 2, Gabbar Singh 2, Ravinder Singh, Satwinder Singh) bt Panposh XI 1 (Amyla Minz); Air-India (Mumbai) 7 (Len Aiyappa 2, Vinod Pillay 2, Alden D’Souza, Yuvraj Walmiki, Joga Singh) bt Indian Navy 2 (Pradeep Kullu, Rajan Lakra).

Pool ‘B’: Air-India (North) 7 (Sameer Dad 3, Sandeep Singh 2, Vikram Pillay, Ravinder Singh) bt Mumbai Customs 2 (Stanley Fernandes, Suresh Singh); Army XI 2 (Jerome Kujur, Sunil Ekka) bt Namdhari XI 1 (Karmjit Singh).

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