{"id":24361,"date":"2018-03-10T11:20:23","date_gmt":"2018-03-10T11:20:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/punjabnews24.com\/?p=24361"},"modified":"2018-03-10T11:20:23","modified_gmt":"2018-03-10T11:20:23","slug":"hockey-india-thrash-ireland-to-finish-5th-at-sultan-azlan-shah-cup","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/hockey-india-thrash-ireland-to-finish-5th-at-sultan-azlan-shah-cup\/","title":{"rendered":"Hockey: India thrash Ireland to finish 5th at Sultan Azlan Shah Cup"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Defender Varun Kumar scored twice through penalty corners while Shilanand Lakra and Gurjant Singh chipped in with a goal each as India thrashed Ireland 4-1 fifth at the Sultan Azlan Shah Cup hockey tournament in Ipoh on Saturday.<\/p>\n<p>Julian Dale exploited some poor marking by the Indian defenders to get a consolation goal for the European minnows in the final quarter.<\/p>\n<p>India thus avenged the 2-3 loss to Ireland in their last league stage match on Friday which had eliminated their already slim chances of qualifying for the medal rounds.<\/p>\n<p>Ireland finished sixth in the tournament.<br \/>\nSaturday&#8217;s match capped a rather insipid campaign for India during which the only positive results were a 5-1 rout of hosts Malaysia and a 1-1 draw with European powerhouse England.<\/p>\n<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on the_content -->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Defender Varun Kumar scored twice through penalty corners while Shilanand Lakra and Gurjant Singh chipped in with a goal each as India thrashed Ireland 4-1 fifth at the Sultan Azlan Shah Cup hockey tournament in Ipoh on Saturday. Julian Dale exploited some poor marking by the Indian defenders to get a consolation goal for the [&hellip;]<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":24362,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[122],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-24361","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24361","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=24361"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24361\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":24363,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24361\/revisions\/24363"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/24362"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=24361"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=24361"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=24361"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}