India vs Indonesia: The Indian women's hockey team's excellent performance continues in the Asian Games 2026. The team maintained its dominance by defeating Indonesia 17-1 in its second match of Pool B. Deepika Sehrawat and Rutuja Pisal were the most outstanding players in this victory. This first team had defeated Uzbekistan by a huge margin of 19-0.
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Deepika's stellar form continued in this match too, scoring a record-breaking eight goals against Uzbekistan in India's 19-0 win. He scored three more goals together with Rutuja; Other big names like Sunilita Toppo, captain Salima Tete and Sakshi Rana were also included among the goal scorers. Against Indonesia, Deepika started her scoring streak with a brilliant drag-flick from a penalty corner in the eighth minute. India rained goals in the next seven minutes.
Sunelita Toppo (11th minute), Lalremsiami (penalty goal in 13th minute) and Rutuja Pisal (15th minute) made the score 4-0 at the end of the first quarter. Lalremsiami's goal came when Navneet's penalty corner shot was blocked by the goalkeeper, but Lalremsiami scored on the rebound. Rutuja's first goal also came on a rebound from close range; Deepika's shot was stopped by the goalkeeper.
A long, low pass intercepted by the goalkeeper early in the second quarter was intercepted by the Indian forwards and Lalremsiami took the ball and scored his second goal in the 16th minute with a reverse hit. In the 20th minute, Neha came into the circle with the ball and passed it to Rutuja, who made the score 6-0 with a shot without any mistake. Sakshi Rana got her name on the scoring sheet in the 25th minute and Deepika (28th minute) and Sunelita (30th minute) scored two successful penalty corner goals.
At half-time the score was 9-0 and India had complete dominance over Indonesia. After which Ines Adiita opened Indonesia's account by scoring a goal in the 32nd minute. Then India started raining goals again. Captain Salima Tete (34th minute), Navneet (35th minute), Ishika (36th minute), Rutuja (39th minute) and Deepika (40th minute) scored to take the score to 14-1. Navneet (56th and 57th minutes) and Sakshi Rana (57th minute) scored more goals for India.
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Let us tell you that the Indian women's hockey team had defeated Uzbekistan by a huge margin of 19-0 in its very first match in the Asian Games 2026. Forward Deepika was the star of this match; He scored eight goals, five of which came from penalty corners. At the same time, Ishika also scored a hat-trick and India played a one-sided game. Deepika made the record of scoring the most number of goals by a player in a single match of the Asian Games. Now the team will play its next match against Thailand on 23 September.