Indian team reached semi-finals
Moqi (China): India defeated Pakistan 19-0 to reach the semi-finals of the Women's Junior Asia Cup on Thursday. The Indian team played aggressively from the beginning and scored goals in all four quarters of the match. On the other hand, Pakistan could not score a single goal in the entire match. India created pressure by winning 2 penalty corners in the first 5 minutes.
One goal was disallowed after video review. After this, Pooja Sahu gave India the lead in the 7th minute. After 2 minutes, Roshni scored the second goal and made the score 2-0. In the remaining time of the first quarter, Tanushree Kadu scored on a deflection, while Sukhbir Kaur converted a penalty stroke. India ended the first quarter with a 5-0 lead through Sanika Mane's goal.
Madhu Sidar and Geeta Yadav scored goals in the second quarter. After this, the score became 10-0 at half-time with goals from Sanika, Tanuja Topo and Pooja Malik. India scored 3 more goals in the third quarter. Purnima Yadav, Madhu and Supriya scored goals to completely destroy Pakistan's hopes of a comeback. India maintained pressure even in the last quarter. Krishna Sharma scored a goal, after which Pooja Malik completed her hat-trick.
Supriya scored the second goal, while Binima Dhan and Roshni scored the last two goals to make India's victory 19–0. Roshni scored India's 19th goal in the 60th minute. India won 18 penalty corners India won 18 penalty corners and one penalty stroke with 19 goals scored in the entire match. Pakistan neither got any goal, nor any penalty corner or penalty stroke in the entire match. India will face the winner of the quarter-final between Korea and Malaysia in the semi-finals on Saturday.