Australia are the Defending Champions
6 countries participate in this year's tournament:
India stun world champions Australia
Young striker Nikkin Thimmaiah scored a hat-trick as India produced their best performance of the tournament to stun world champions and title holders Australia 4-2 on Saturday April 11,2015 and secure a place in the third and fourth place play-off
The win gave also gave India's new chief coach Paul van Ass his best moment of a short career with the Indian team.
India
scored a goal each in all the four quarters through VR Raghunath (1st
minute), Nikkin (23rd, 32nd, 60th), while Australia's goals came from
the sticks of Daniel Beale (14th) and Matt Gohdes (53rd).
By
virtue of this win, India finished their league engagements with seven
points from five game and will now face either Korea or New Zealand in
the third-fourth place classification match tomorrow.
By virtue of this win, India avenged their 1-2 loss to Australia at the FIH Champions Trophy in Dec 2014
India claim bronze beating South Korea on penalties
After the regulation period ended in a 2-2 draw identical to the result of the league phase encounter between the two, India outclassed the Koreans in penalty shootout, where PR Sreejesh once again turned out to be the hero making as many as three saves.
For India, Akashdeep Singh, Sardar Singh, Rupinderpal Singh and Birender Lakra scored in the shootout to give India the win.
India's vice-captain and goalkeeper P R Sreejesh had a fantastic day under the bar as he not only made numerous saves in the entire 60 minutes, but also turned out to be India's hero in the shoot-out, denying two Korean efforts to help his side register the much-needed victory.
NZ beats Australia and win 2nd Azlan Shah title
New Zealand surprised world champions Australia 3-1 in the penalty shoot-out in a keenly-contested summit clash to claim their second Azlan Shah Cup hockey title on Sunday April 12,2015
Goalkeeper Devon Manchester starred for the Black Sticks under the woodwork to secure the hard-earned win in the shoot-out against defending champions Australia after both the teams were tied 2-2 in regulation 60 minutes.
Drag-flicker Andy Hayward (5th minute, 58th) scored New Zealand's both goals while Australia struck late through Jacob Whetton (50th) and Mark Knowles (60th) to take the match into the shoot-out.
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