Indian women’s hockey team in Commonwealth ‘dishonest’ in semi-finals, Sehwag also angry

The Indian women’s hockey team was in excellent form in the 22nd Commonwealth Games being played in Birmingham, England. She reached the semi-finals due to this strong game. But here he had to be a victim of dishonesty. The brunt of which he had to pay with a loss in the semi-finals.

The match between India and Australia was a draw. After this, Australia won the match 3-0 in the penalty shootout. It was only in this penalty that there was dishonesty with the Indian team, due to which the morale of the whole team was broken. It has also been criticized by former Indian cricketer Virender Sehwag.

In this way the foul in the penalty shootout

In fact, on Friday (August 5) in the Commonwealth, the Indian women’s hockey team had a semi-final match against Australia. In this match, Australia was dominating 1-0 for the first three quarters, but in the fourth quarter, India leveled the match by scoring a goal.

This only goal was scored by Vandana Kataria in the 49th minute. After this the match ended in a draw after the end of full time. Due to this the match reached a penalty shootout. In Australia’s first penalty shootout, Indian captain and goalkeeper Savita Poonia saved the goal by showing agility. But here the referee told that the timer was not on. This was the reason why Australia had to take the same penalty again.

Australia won the match 3-0 on penalties

Now there was no fault of Team India here, but they had to bear the punishment for the mistake of the referee. When the penalty was again awarded, Australia did not make any mistake and scored the goal. From here the morale of the Indian players had fallen. This was the reason why Australia won the match 3-0. Fans including sports stalwarts are also badly annoyed by this whole incident. Let us tell you that earlier in the match also, the Indian team was fed the match till extra time.

Penalty miss hua Australia se and the Umpire says, Sorry Clock start nahi hua. Such biasedness used to happen in cricket as well earlier till we became a superpower, Hockey mein bhi hum jald banenge and all clocks will start on time. Proud of our girls 🇮🇳https://t.co/mqxJfX0RDq

— Virender Sehwag (@virendersehwag) August 6, 2022

‘If you become a superpower, then all the clocks will start on time’

In the video you can hear that the commentators are also saying the same thing that what is the fault of the Indian team in this. Virender Sehwag also expressed his anger by tweeting on this. He wrote – Penalty was missed from Australia and the umpire said, sorry clock did not start. Such favoritism used to happen in cricket as well, till we became superpowers. We will be in hockey too soon. Then all the clocks will start on time. Proud of our girls (players).