Vandana Katariya scored a hat-trick to guide India to a thrilling 4-3 victory overt South Africa in the Olympics Pool A women’s hockey match, at Oi Hockey stadium, in Tokyo, on Saturday.
The dashing forward scored in the 4th, 17th and 49th minute to keep India’s hopes of advancing to the quarter-finals alive.
South Africa’s goals came from the sticks of Tarryn Glasby (15th minute), skipper Erin Hunter (30th) and Marizen Marais (39th).
India’s chances of going through depends on the result of the last Pool A match between Ireland and Great Britain, later in the day.
If Ireland loses or even draws against Britain, India’s women will make it to the knock-out stage for the first time.
India would not have been in this plight had they not lost their first three matches.
They started with a 1-5 thrashing from the Netherlands and lost 0-2 to Germany next.
The 1-4 beating from Great Britain only added to their misery before they got back to winning ways with a narrow 1-0 win against Ireland.
- TOKYO OLYMPICS
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