FIH Pro League: India women's team beats Argentina 2-1 in shootout

ROTTERDAM: The Indian women's hockey team fought back brilliantly from a goal deficit twice to hold champion-elect Argentina 3-3 in regulation time of their FIH Hockey Pro League match before claiming a bonus point by beating the Las Leonas 2-1 in the shoot-out here on Saturday.

India took an early lead through Player of the Match Lalremsiami in the 3rd minute. But Argentina came back strongly in the second quarter to level the score through Agustina Gorzelany in the 21st minute before taking lead twice, Gorzelany converting a penalty corner (36th min) and a penalty stroke (44th min) to complete a hat-trick and put Argentina in sight of victory.

But Gurjit Kaur converted two penalty corners in 36th and 50th minute as India roared back to hold the Tokyo Olympic Games silver medallists to a 3-3 draw. This was Argentina's third successive draw in regulation in this tournament. IANS

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