Police Games: a day of big wins at the IOB-CHA senior division hockey league, Police hockey team shines

It was a day of big wins at the IOB-CHA senior division hockey league, as IOB thrashed SAI ‘B' 8-1 while TN Police put nine across Chennai Port Trust without reply, at the Mayor Radhakrishnan Stadium on Monday.

TN Police opened the scoring fairly early on, with Mohan converting a penalty corner in the third minute. A few minutes later, Krishna Kumar was left with a tap-in as CPT's defence failed to cope with TN Police's slick passing. Sudharsan got his name on the score sheet in the 19th minute to put his side up 3-0.

Kandha Guru added another and with Sudharsan and Irudhaya Raj also finding the net, Police went into half-time leading 6-0.

Police made a few changes at half-time but continued to look going forward, with Gokul, who was impressive through the second period, adding to CPT's misery minutes after the restart. Kandha Guru and Krishna Kumar registered their second goals of the match to complete the 9-0 rout.

The results:

IOB 8 (Harmanpreet Singh 2, Rafeeq 2, Vinod Rayar, Arul Stalin, Muddappa, Pradhan Somanna) bt SAI 'B' 1 (Muthukumaran); TN Police 9 (Krishna Kumar 2, Sudharsan 2, Kandha Guru 2, Irudhaya Raja, Mohan, Gokul) bt CPT