Malaysia wins Sultan Azlan Shah Hockey Tournament 2022 and Pakistan takes Third position.

 

Sultan Azlan Shah cup was held in Malaysia from 1 November to 10 November 2022. Total 6 teams were playing this tournament. Teams participating in this tournament were the same from last year Pakistan, Egypt, Japan, Malaysia, South Africa and South Korea.

Malaysia were the winners of this tournament beating South Korea 3-2, and the runners up were South Korea, Pakistan being placed in third position. In this tournament there were total 18 matches played and 72 goals being scored in this tournament keeping an average of 4 goals per match.

Razie Rahim Malaysian Player was the top scorer of this Tournament scoring 6 goals.

Malaysia won the tournament for the first time in 39 years. ShelloSilverius scored the first goal in 14^th minute of the match for Malaysia but after a minute an equalizer was scored by Jang Jong-Hyun through a penalty corner goal, at the 44^th minute penalty was given to Malaysia which was taken by Razie Abdul Rahim who calmly scored it. It was a tense match between these 2 teams, Malaysia was not giving any chance to South Korea to score for another equalizer and Malaysia having a score up but was still craving for another goal and they breached the defense of South Korea and at the 47^th minute AminuddinMohd Zain scored a goal.

At this time the score was 3-1 and time was running short, South Korea were under pressure and at the 57^th minute Jeon Byungjin South Korea player scored a penalty corner goal and then after some time the match ended 3-2 resulting in Malaysia being the winner of this tournament. The tournament was held in Azlan Shah Stadium.

Umpires for the final match were Haroon Rashid from Pakistan and Raghu Parsand from India.

Pakistan beat Japan and takes third position in tournament. In 2011 Pakistan won a silver medal and after a decade Pakistan finish in the top 3 and earned its first medal in the championship. In the ninth minute FukuraKentaro scored a goal for Japan. In the eleventh minute the goal was equalized by Abdul Hanan Shahid.

At the 19^th minute Afraz Ahmad very easily not being under pressure scored a goal that led to 2-1, and Roman scored his first goal at 27^th minute 3-1.

After Yuma Nagai cut Pakistan’s lead to one in the 30^th minute, Rooman scored his second four minutes later to struggle to take the green shirts comfortable.
In the final quarter,

Japan made a great comeback as Nagai scored another into the basket in the 49^th minute before Pakistan’s Abdul Rana fired his team home.
It should be mentioned here that the team led by Umer-Bhutta finished fourth in the round robin phase of the tournament with six teams.

 

1.     Malaysia

2.     South Korea

3.     Pakistan

4.     Japan

5.     Egypt

6.     South Africa