Full Time: Chris Cirelo scores a hat-trick to setup Australia's dominant 6-2 victory against India. The world champions finish on top of Pool A. India finish second with 7 points.
51' GOAL! Ramandeep scores one for India, his fourth one of the tournament. India show that there's still some fight left in them. But is it too late? Australia 6-2
UPDATE: End of the 3rd quarter and Australia are dominantly ahead of India with 6 goals to 1.
44' GOAL! Second goal in 2 minutes. Cirelo's low flick goes straight into the cage between Sreejesh and Yuvraj. Australia 6-1 India
42' GOAL! Kiren Govers sends the ball to the right of cage to outplay Sreejesh. Fourth goal for Govers. Australia 5-1 India
34' GOAL! Birendra Lakra manages to pull one back for India. India have a lifeline. Australia 4-1 India
33' GOAL! Ciriello strikes again at the start of the 3rd quarter to make it 4-0 for Australia through a penalty corner. Australia 4-0 India
UPDATE: End of the first half and its been a dominant display from the World Champions. They go into the long break with a 3-0 lead over India. Australia 3-0 India
26' GOAL! Ciriello scores to make it 3-0 for Australia. Good attempt from Sreejesh to save but the rebound straight away comes back to Cirelo who makes no mistake. Australia 3-0 India
UPDATE: Some urgency of attack from the Indians but Australia defence unaffected.
UPDATE: End of the first quarter as Australia lead India 2-0. Brilliant start from the World Champions. They have maintained the pressure on the Indians.
14' GOAL! Jamie Dwyer makes it 2-0 for Australia. Sreejesh could have done better with that save, he was caught off balance. Australia 2-0 India
9' Sreejesh who just conceded a goal, comes up with a brilliant save to ward off a great shot from Blake moments later.
8' GOAL! Australia take the early lead. Zalewski just pierced through the Indian defence and Sreejesh couldn't do anything. Australia 1-0 India
5' Australia playing angular balls just to their likeness but India are backing up their defense with good numbers.
4' India getting a superb chance to take the early lead but good defending from Australia waves off the challenge.
1' Australia playing in attacking fashion from the word go and India are found wanting at the back on a couple of occasions.
UPDATE: PR Sreejesh will again be the key for India in this match. Ramandeep will also be eager to add a couple of more to his tally.
UPDATE: Its time for the National Anthems of both the countries at Antwerp.
UPDATE: This match decide who will finish on top in Pool A. Interesting rivalry building up between the two teams.
UPDATE: Govers is the top scorer for Australia with 5 goals while Ramandeep Singh is leading the scoresheet for India with 3 goal.
UPDATE: Just about 4 minutes to go into the match and its the 200th international cap for Gurbaj Singh. Amazing achievement!
UPDATE: Australia are leading the pool as they have won all their matches so far while India are second with a draw and 2 wins.
UPDATE: India and Australia play their fourth and last pool match today. India, who are ranked 9th, have recently won a series against the 1st ranked Australia.
Their campaign passing along smoothly, India will now look to upstage fancied world champions Australia in their last preliminary match of the World League semifinals on Sunday.
India's show against Australia will go a long way in deciding the final pool positions, with Pakistan staying in the frame after the subcontinental encounter on Friday ended in a 2-2 draw.
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