News for 06 September 2020
All the news for Sunday 6 September 2020
Hoofdklasse hits the turf for new season on Sunday with array of stars on display
The Dutch Hoofdklasse competitions return on Sunday for the first time since March with fresh faces and fresh hopes for a new season.
The women’s league starts the action at 12.45pm (CET) with five matches with leading lights Den Bosch hosting Victoria, the former being labeled by hockey.nl as the favourites for the title.
Laura Nunnink is a marquee addition to their team and she joins a team with world class strikers Lidewij Welten and Frédérique Matla continuing their fearsome front-line partnership.
AH&BC Amsterdam’s date with HGC has unfortunately been called off due to positive tests for coronavirus in the Amsterdam camp with the game pushed back to midweek.
Amsterdam have seen Charlotte Vega and Kimberly Thompson retire over the summer while Kelly Jonker goes to Pinoké following the birth of her first child with Freeke Moes, Hester van der Veld and Fay van der Elst coming in.
At SCHC, coach Lucas Judge’s first challenge is the visit of Bloemendaal to Bilthoven. Club legend Carlien Dirkse van den Heuvel has stopped, putting more emphasis on the likes of Caia van Maasakker and Yibbi Jansen who offer probably the most fearsome corner battery.
Sunday’s other games see Oranje-Rood face off against Laren with Pinoké taking on Kamping and HDM meeting Hurley.
The men’s competition has a new sponsor in Tulp and all their first round of games take up their usual 2.45pm time slots. Reigning champions Bloemendaal are unbeaten since May 2019 and they could be even stronger now with Jorrit Croon and Floris Wortelboer both available after injury for the tenure of coach of Rick Mathijssen. Their first game is against Almere at home.
SV Kampong are always contenders but will have a new coach at the helm for the first time in many years with Roelant Oltmans taking over from Alexander Cox.
Young talents Derck de Vilder, Bram van Battum and Silas Lageman are big prospects to go with key figures like Robbert Kemperman, Bjorn Kellerman, Jip Janssen and Sander de Wijn. Their first challenge is against an ambitious Klein Zwitserland who have brought in a number of new faces including the EHL’s second highest goalscorer Marco Miltkau.
Among the challengers, Den Bosch did enough last season to earn a place in the EHL Cup for the first time and Eric Verboom’s side will aim to a playoff contender but Joaquin Menini (Rotterdam) and Sebastién Dockier (Pinoké – Den Bosch’s first opponent) have moved on.
Rotterdam have rung the changes with Mark Ingram, Sean Murray, Hugo Inglis, Kilian Pöhling, Blair Tarrant and Kane Russell finding pastures new. Thijs van Dam will be a key figure along with Justen Blok and Tjep Hoedemakers.
Their opening game is a big challenge at Oranje-Rood but the Eindhoven side will miss the corner cannon that is Mink van der Weerden whose debut in the German league yielded two goals for Rot-Weiss Köln.
HGC meet Tilburg and Amsterdam face Hurley in a local derby, kickstarting a potentially thrilling season of one of the world’s best leagues.
Euro Hockey League media release
EH Champs day 1 champions decided
Men’s Over 50s T1 Final – Indian Gymkhana 2-2 Stourport (Stourport win penalty shootout 3-2)
The opening match of the weekend saw Stourport take victory in the Men’s Over 50s T1 Final as they defeated Indian Gymkhana in a penalty shootout following a 2-2 draw.
Though Stourport took an early lead, it was swiftly dashed out as Chaudhry Nisar danced around the defence before stroking the ball into the backboard.
Indian Gymkhana had all the momentum as the first-half drew to a close with numerous penalty corners and reaped the rewards with a second goal.
Having hit the crossbar after a devastating counter-attack, Stourport were still firmly in the match and bagged an equaliser with less than 10 minutes remaining to take the game to a penalty shootout where the team prevailed to lift the trophy. 
EH Champs 2020 Stourport
Men’s Over 60s T1 Final – Reading 5-0 Iceni Rex Essex
Reading stormed their way to the title in the Men’s Over 60s T1 Final with a 5-0 victory over Iceni Rex Essex.
Going into the break 1-0 to the good, the team continued to press on in attack and asserted their dominance with a flurry of goals and solid defence.
Reading showed no mercy in a relentless second-half with Robert Gregory bagging a brace, the second of which a sublime finish in which he displayed great control before tucking the ball past the goalkeeper.
Adrian Radnedge added gloss to the score line with a late goal to secure a thoroughly deserved victory.
EH Champs 2020 Reading
Women’s Over 35s T1 Final – Olton & West Warwickshire 11-2 Clifton Robinsons
Olton & West Warwickshire looked unstoppable in the Women’s Over 35s T1 Final as they crushed Clifton Robinsons 11-2.
Sally Walton (5) and Rachel Gatherer (3) were looking sharp in front of goal, netting eight of the team’s goals in a lethal attacking partnership.
4-0 up with less than 15 minutes on the clock, Olton & West Warwickshire were rampant and couldn’t be stopped as they raced to a 6-0 lead before Clifton got on the board through Isabel Palmer.
Any thoughts of a comeback were quickly dispelled as Olton & West Warwickshire hit back with five of their own to ensure they would take the title with an emphatic display. 
EH Champs 2020 Olton
Men’s Over 60s T2 Final – Cheshire 1-0 Indian Gymkhana
In a hotly contested battle, Cheshire were able to narrowly edge past Indian Gymkhana to take the Over 60s T2 title.
A game that could have gone either way, Cheshire were able to make good of their creativity and find the decisive breakthrough.
Indian Gymkhana came close on numerous occasions but were always met but a well-timed block or smart save from the opposition.
It was a moment of brilliance that won it for Cheshire, the ball being fired into the circle where Karl Gorse deflected the ball in from the back post with an unstoppable strike to ensure the team would take home the trophy.
EH Champs 2020 Cheshire
Women’s T1 Final – Beeston 3-2 Clifton Robinsons
Clifton dominated the early stages of the match, as the team shot narrowly wide before Jenny Rizzo in the Beeston goal came out on top in a 1v1.
The team did make their momentum count as Lily Webb pounced on a loose ball in the circle and tucked it away within the first five minutes.
Beeston recovered from the early pressure and responded well, Imogen O’Neill and Jillian Wolgemuth scoring within five minutes of each other on either side of half-time.
An end-to-end game with chances coming aplenty, Beeston were the next to make their chances count as Alice Huddlestone found the back of the net with only a minute left to play.
Though Claire Thomas hit back seconds later with a sensational finish, deflecting the ball into the roof of the net with devastating accuracy, it proved to only be a consolation as Beeston held onto their lead to secure the victory.
EH Champs 2020 Beeston
Men’s 040s T1 Final – Rugby & East Warwickshire 2-0 Epsom
The final match of the day say Rugby & East Warwickshire grind out a closely fought 2-0 victory over Epsom in the Men’s O40s T1 Final.
The team were quick to find the scoresheet with David Odwell finding the back of the net with just 3 minutes on the clock.
It wasn’t all going in Rugby & East Warwickshire’s favour with Epsom enjoying large spells of possession and regularly threatening to launch a punishing attack.
Having spent several minutes defending their own goal, Rugby & East Warwickshire quickly repelled an Epsom penalty corner and swiftly moved the ball upfield. Good wing play and a perfectly placed ball across the face of goal saw the ball fall to Odwell to bag his brace.
Epsom were awarded consecutive penalty corners and withdrew their goalkeeper as time ran out but were unable to find a way through a stubborn defence as Rugby & East Warwickshire were crowned champions.
EH Champs 2020 Rugby
Despite there being no spectators with the matches being taken place behind closed doors, a huge thanks to all volunteers who have helped put on the event. Hockey Makers on event included Stuart Henry, Russel Davenport, Annie Thomas, Pam McCartney, John McCartney, Heather Gibbs, Christopher Sheldon, Allan Orient, Jane Jelley.
England Hockey Board Media release
PR Sreejesh dream supercharged after encounter with Kerala athlete KM Beenamol
The Indian goalkeeper was striving to make the district hockey team when Sreejesh ran into Olympian and middle-distance champion KM Beenamol.
By Subhayan Dutta ·
Veteran Indian hockey goalkeeper PR Sreejesh says that he only started aspiring for the national team after meeting India’s 2000 Olympics athletics star KM Beenamol, who had visited his school following the Sydney Games.
Though PR Sreejesh had turned his focus to hockey after initially trying out sprinting, long jump and volleyball in school, the Kerala-lad did not dream beyond getting into the district and the state team.
However, all that had changed when 2000 Arjuna Awardee KM Beenamol, a middle distance athlete, visited Sreejesh’s school in Aruvikkara, Kerala.
“In 2000, after the Sydney Olympics, KM Beenamol and hockey player Dinesh Nayak came to my school where they were felicitated,” PR Sreejesh told Firstpost.
Beenamol, born in Kerala, was a 800 metre specialist and is the third Indian woman to have made the semi-final of an Olympics after PT Usha and Shiny Wilson.
Beenamol is also a double gold medallist in the 2002 Busan Asian Games. She won the 800 metres and was part of the 4 x 400m relay quartet.
“I remember Beenamol telling us, 'If I could play for the country, so can you.'
“That sparked a thought in the mind for the first time that maybe if I play well, I can play for India,” Sreejesh remembered.
It was a year later that PR Sreejesh earned a call-up for the U-16 national camp before the goalie went on to make his debut for the senior Indian hockey team at the 2006 South Asian Games.
Indian hockey goalkeeper PR Sreejesh made his international debut in 2006.
Rahul Dravid the only ‘Wall’ for PR Sreejesh
After staying as an understudy to Indian hockey goalkeepers Adrian D’Souza, Devesh Chauhan, and Jude Menezes among others for years, PR Sreejesh became a national sensation at the 2011 Asian Champions Trophy final.
India faced arch-rivals Pakistan in the summit match and after both the teams could not score in normal time, the game went on to a penalty shootout. PR Sreejesh saved a stroke that helped India win the match 4-2 and consequently the tournament.
Not only did PR Sreejesh become a regular face in the Indian squad since then but he was also dubbed ‘The Wall’.
However, he believes the tag -- Wall -- only suits former Indian cricketer and prolific batsman Rahul Dravid, who earned the moniker for his solid and almost impenetrable defensive technique and patience on the crease.
“Being addressed as ‘The Wall’ feels like a great honour, but for me, the title belongs to Rahul Dravid. He is The Wall,” Sreejesh said.
“I remember it was after the 2011 Asian Champions Trophy win that some newspapers wrote that I am ‘The Wall’ of India, and it got stuck.
“It gives me a great sense of responsibility too because I know they trust me to perform. It is a great feeling and it gives me the energy to keep performing to the best of my abilities,” Sreejesh, a 2013 Arjuna Awardee added.
Olympic Channel
Defence day hockey matches at KHA today
KARACHI: Three flood-light exhibition matches will be organised at KHA Sports Complex on Sunday (today) evening to mark the Defence Day in Pakistan under Karachi Hockey Association to pay homage to the martyrs.
NAPA XI will face KHA XI, SJAS Leon will take on Karachi Orange and KHA Under-15 XI will face Karachi Women XI.
The special guest of the award ceremony will be Sindh Minister for Labor and Education Saeed Ghani, while Provincial Minister Syeda Shehla Raza, Member National Assembly Iqbal Muhammad Ali, Vice Admiral (Retd) Syed Arifullah Hussaini, Special Assistant to the Chief Minister Syed Waqar Mehdi, Special Assistant to CM for political affairs Syed Rashid Hussain Rabbani, Olympian Samiullah Khan and Olympian Hanif Khan will be the guests of honor.
The News International
Tauqir appeals to PM not to abolish departmental hockey
Mohammad Yaqoob
"Very few people and players have interest in hockey now. Putting an end to potential job opportunities will be a disaster for the game which is already in a deep crisis," he said. File photo
LAHORE: Former hockey Olympian Tauqir Dar has appealed to Prime Minister of Pakistan Imran Khan to not repeat the mistake of ending departmental competitions by introducing the same system in hockey, otherwise, players would be hardly found.
“The prime minister has recently indicated that the structure of hockey be built on the basis of regions instead of departments — identical to that in cricket. Ending departmental cricket has rendered many cricketers jobless forcing many of them to turn into cart-pushers in a bid to survive. I will appeal to the premier to not repeat the same mistake in hockey as lower class people are playing this game and job opportunity is the only source of motivation for them to take up this sport professionally,” said Tauqir, a member of the last Pakistan team that won Olympics in 1984.
Tauqir said: “Very few people and players have interest in hockey now. Putting an end to potential job opportunities will be a disaster for the game which is already in a deep crisis.”
It should be noted that the prime minister, in his first-ever meeting with the PHF president retired Brig Sajjad Khokhar in two years despite being patron-in-chief of the PHF, had suggested to make necessary amendments in the constitution to set up academies and to form teams on city basis for league hockey. Earlier, on the instructions of the prime minister, the Pakistan Cricket Board had abolished departmental cricket, which cut short its first-class structure from 16 teams (eight departmental and as many regional) to only six provincial teams, limiting the players count to just 192 cricketers from around 350 previously.
Tauqir said a crime of the decade was done with Pakistan hockey by not fielding a team in the first-ever introduced FIH Pro league last year.
“It was a great opportunity to keep Pakistan in the top ten teams of the world. Pakistan would have stayed in top ten teams even if they had they lost all the matches. Moreover, it would have also provided a great opportunity to play hockey with big teams like Australia, Holland, Germany and Belgium on the basis of top ten ranking.
“Pakistan’s absence from FIH Pro Hockey further brought them down on the world rankings from 13 to 17, while arch-rivals India are at 4,” he lamented.
Pakistan did not participate in Pro Hockey last year because of insufficient funds. However, after the PHF delegation’s meeting with prime minister and Army Chief General Qamar Javed Bajwa, hopes are high that the PHF will get special grants from the federal government. The Army chief has already announced a grant of Rs50million.
Tauqir also advised the PHF to use the money in a better way and to make heavy investments at the grassroots level. “Only money cannot develop hockey alone. You need vision and will as well. If these three things are there, everyone can change their fate. It is high time for the PHF to increase hockey activities at the grassroots level. It should also focus on its national team players’ panel to create international activities for them,” Tauqir said.
“Eleven players of Tanvir Dar Hockey Academy got recruited in different departments when the PHF held the national junior championship last time. It shows the importance of hockey at the grassroots level,” he said.
He also suggested the PHF to make all appointments on merit instead of considering friends and relatives for key positions.
Tauqir also talked about the lack of proper coaching manual despite winning Olympics three times and World Cup four times.
“Due to different hockey manual functions, our players have become confused so as to which coaching manual to follow”, he commented.
“It is high time for the PHF to organise top level coaching courses with the help of a common coaching manual,” he concluded.
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Rain wreaks havoc at Edhi Hockey Stadium Karachi, both turfs damaged: report
A file photo of the Abdul Sattar Edhi Hockey Stadium’s main blue turf. Photo courtesy: Pakistan Hockey Federation
The recent spell of monsoon rains in Karachi did not spare the city’s already thing sports infrastructure as the Abdul Sattar Edhi Hockey Stadium’s both turfs have been badly damaged, The News reported on Saturday.
The publication states that the stadium had as much as four-foot high water level after the city received record downpour last month.
As a result, the main blue turf as well as the other green one have developed wrinkles on the surface, rendering them unfit even for practice.
The News adds that the green pitch is more affected than the main blue surface, but neither are in the condition to be used unless repaired.
The report further says that the stadium is in a location of depression, which makes it susceptible to flooding following rains. Furthermore, the facility also lacks a drainage system, it adds, compounding the problem even more.
Geosuper TV
Revealed: How France took Great Britain on the tiles ahead of 1920 hockey gold
By Rod Gilmour
France attempted to get their cross channel opponents Great Britain drunk in Antwerp the night before the men’s gold medal match at the 1920 Olympics, exactly 100 years ago, but were thwarted in their attempts thanks to their rivals being made of “sterner stuff”.
The story has been thrust into the limelight ahead of a special anniversary event at The Hockey Museum in Woking on Saturday following painstaking research into GB caps which will see the family of goalkeeper Harry Haslam receive an international cap.
Haslam is being designated as cap number one in the museum’s list and the presentation will be followed up next May when the current players are handed their modern day cap number ahead of the Euros and the Olympics. The Hockey Museum’s work should be much applauded.
Great Britain’s gold medal at the 1920 Antwerp Games certainly came under strange circumstances, “arising from a misguided piece of skulduggery,” according to the museum.
Only four nations competed at the Games – Denmark and Belgium the other teams – and after a series of round robin matches, the gold medal was won by virtue of a walkover to GB after France failed to take to the field for the final.
“The story of the way the Brits won the gold medal is absolutely brilliant,” Harry’s grandson, John Ottaway, told The Hockey Paper.
“The gold wasn’t made very much of when we were kids, it wasn’t thought as any great shakes. They had all decamped for a weekend and no one had given them any kit. They had turned up, won the gold medal and come home so I’m not sure Harry had the same elevated opinion on what he had done as we have now.
“But the French were on a hiding to nothing and decided that the best way to win the match was to take the Brits out and get them drunk. It sounds a bit apocryphal but they certainly didn’t turn up the next day!”
The Ilford Recorder, in an article on Harry, whose club was Ilford HC, described the affair in 1996. “Great Britain’s opponents invited our lads out on the town – with the intention of drinking them legless.
“The French found their opponents were made of sterner stuff than themselves in the hangover league and the inebriated opposition actually conceded the next day’s final following their mutual night out on the town.”
Harry Haslam
Another source, also penned many decades later, refers to an epidemic near the French team’s accommodation, the Games taking place two years after the First World War and Spanish Flu still rampant in Europe.
“This may of course be a tactful way of suggesting the French team were the worse for wear, or it could be sincere,” the museum said. The French finished last after losing their other two games.
The family hasn’t been able to put any bones on the story but the Recorder piece could have solid grounding as Harry was also a local reporter for the paper.
He had started life playing hockey in Birmingham before coming down south with his brother, who was also a goalkeeper, before settling in Essex.
He won nine international caps in all, making his England debut aged 37. According to the museum’s research, Harry’s style of play “was apparently on a par with his ability to hold his drink and he was noted for his eccentricity on the pitch.”
A newspaper match report in 1912 stated that Haslam “made several brilliant saves but, for some unaccountable reason, accompanied each effort with a ‘whoop’ like a proverbial scalp hunter.”
During First World War he served as a chief inspector with the Metropolitan Special Constabulary and in 1920 he received an OBE for his services to the constabulary.
He retired from playing hockey at the age of 48 in 1932 and ran a weekly radio broadcast on the BBC where he parted his hockey knowledge. He was also a keen adminisrator and the meeting minutes from the Essex league showed he was quite outspoken.
It is believed that Harry was also instrumental in bringing in the new stick design. The English hockey stick used to be a semi circle and at the time the sport realised that the Indian style half-crescent stick was a far more efficient style of playing.
Harry died unexpectedly on his 72nd birthday in 1954. He had umpired a match only a few days before.
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Memories of Gold
Ijaz Chaudhry
It was 60 years ago, on September 9, 1960 that Pakistan won its first-ever Olympic gold medal in any sport, by defeating India in the hockey final at Rome, something the entire nation had been waiting for since Pakistan’s inception in 1947.
It is said that a country’s national and regional identity are closely associated to its sporting achievements. It didn’t take long for Pakistan to have a world champion in Hashim Khan who won the British Open squash title in 1951. In cricket, Pakistan surprised everyone by winning the Oval Test in 1954, on their first ever tour of England (it took India almost 40 years to notch its first Test win in England). But it was hockey that was the focus of attention of the sports fraternity in both India and Pakistan.
There were reasons for this. Before Pakistan’s birth, the united British India team had won three consecutive Olympic hockey gold medals — in 1928, 1932 and 1936. But because of the Second World War, the Olympics could only be resumed in 1948. The Muslim players constituted a significant proportion of all these three teams from India, which took gold. Hence, not only the new nation of Pakistan, but the connoisseurs of the game expected an Indo-Pakistan final in the first post-Partition Olympiad in 1948. But what to talk of gold or silver, the Pakistan side failed to land even the bronze medal, finishing fourth at London. Four years later, at the 1952 Helsinki Olympics, Pakistan again ended at the fourth spot.
There was dejection at home over the second consecutive failure. It led to serious soul-searching. A five-member committee, headed by senior civil servant Mian Riazuddin, a former Punjab University hockey player of distinction, was formed by the Pakistan Hockey Federation. The committee made a number of recommendations including:
Instead of the selection committee formed of ‘quota’ representatives of all the affiliated units, a new selection committee should be formed, comprising reputed former players only.
There would be no undue pressure on the players. They could use sticks and shoes of their own choice.
The captain’s power and authority was to be increased.
To increase the base of players, a number of tournaments in all the provinces would be organised under the supervision of provincial tournament committees.
All this paid off. At the 1956 Olympics, Pakistan reached the final for the first time and came across India. The whole hockey world had been waiting for this. India scored the lone goal of the match through a penalty corner. It was a controversial goal, as Pakistan had not even lined up on the goal line when the hit was taken and even Indian full-back Randhir Singh Gentle’s hit was not legitimate as the ball struck the net instead of the board.
However, Pakistan had fully arrived and it appeared capable of ending India’s long tenure at the throne any time. And the nation had got its first-ever Olympics medal in any sport.
Before the 1960 Olympic Games at Rome, Pakistan achieved a real morale booster by winning the 1958 Asian Games gold medal — on goal average, though. India were relegated to the second position for the first time at any international tournament.
It was almost the same team, which had been playing together since 1956. Eight of the first choice XI had played in the 1956 final against India.
Skipper Abdul Hamid Hamidi at the top of the podium
So, most of the players knew that it was their last chance to win an Olympic gold. The team was again led by Abdul Hamid Hamidi, the lone survivor from the 1948 Olympics. Hamidi’s influence could be judged from the fact that he replaced Zafar Ahmad Khan with Zafar Hayat at virtually the last moment. Pakistan started in a cavalier fashion winning all the three pool games with ease.
In the quarter-final, Pakistan found West Germany a hard nut to crack. Pakistan went ahead through that great centre forward Abdul Waheed, but the Germans equalised quickly. Then left-in Naseer Bunda netted the winner. Although Pakistan won the semi-final against Spain by a lone goal, courtesy full-back Manzoor Hussain Atif’s penalty corner conversion, their superiority was never in doubt, though Hamidi had to save a penalty bully.
The stage was set for the clash of the titans in the eternal city of Rome. The Indian side, which had won six Olympic hockey titles on the trot, was now pitted against the determined and hungry Pakistani side.
The Green Shirts started with an all-out attack. In the 13th minute of the final, right-in Hamidi edged past right-out Noor Alam. Noor Alam’s centre found left-in Naseer Bunda. The ball stopped dead on his stick and was flicked like a flash on to the left side of the Indian goalkeeper. This proved to be the decisive goal and it ended India’s 32-year-old supremacy in Olympic hockey.
Pakistan’s dominance of the tournament can be gauged from the fact that they scored 25 goals while only one was scored against them.
The famous English hockey journalist R.L. Holland paid tribute to Hamidi and Bunda in these words: “In the final analysis it was their inside forwards, Hamid and Naseer, who won Pakistan their gold medal and most of all Hamid. He does not play the spectacular trick of Naseer or the Indian Peter. But neither of these men have his shrewd tactical appreciation and command of the movement. To my eyes, he is the most constructive forward in the world today.”
This was the crowning achievement for skipper Hamidi, who retired from hockey after having competed in four consecutive Olympic Games. It was also a momentous occasion for the manager A.I.S. Dara who had really worked hard all these years to build up a winning squad.
Pakistan’s first-ever Olympic gold was top news
But most importantly, it was a great occasion for the entire Pakistani nation who finally had their first Olympic Games gold medal. The team was given a tumultuous welcome on its return home and there were big receptions in all the major cities in their honour.
It is worth mentioning here that the 1960 Olympics hockey final was televised throughout Western Europe on the European link-up. It was also the first time that TV covered the Olympics on such a large scale, although it was in London in 1948 that the Olympic Games were first shown on home television sets.
A nation’s success in the Olympics is seen as a measure of that nation’s standing in the international community. This year, 2020 marks the diamond jubilee of Pakistan’s first-ever Olympic gold medal. As a result of this, hockey was officially declared the country’s national game.
Team
Goalkeepers: Abdul Rasheed and Ronny Gardener
Full-backs: Muneer Dar, ManzoorAtif, Khursheed Azam and Basheer Ahmad
Half-backs: Ghulam Rasool Chaudhry, Anwaar Ahmed Khan, Habib Ali Kiddie, Zafar Hayat
Forwards: Noor Alam, Abdul Hamid Hamidi, Abdul Waheed Khan, NaseerBunda, Mutiullah Khan, Zafar Ali Zafari, Mushtaq Ahmad, Khawaja Zakauddin
Scorers: Abdul Hamid Hamidi 9, Abdul Waheed 6, Naseer Bunda 5, Muneer Dar 1, M.H. Atif 1, Mutiullah 1, Anwaar A. Khan 1, Noor Alam 1
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