India begins Junior Hockey World Cup with win, beats Canada

Lucknow: India surpassed Canada 4-0 in its inaugural Pool D match of the 11^th FIH Junior Hockey World Cup at Major Dhyan Chand Astroturf stadium here on Thursday.

Mandeep Singh began the proceedings for India hitting the first goal in the 35^th minute. Later, Harmanpreet Singh (46th), Varun Kumar (60th) and Ajit Pandey (66th) struck other three goals in the second period.

Minnows Canada was never in the India-dominated game. It could be mentioned here that Canada team has 13 Indian origin players in its 18-member squad.

India will lock horns with England in their next poll match on Saturday.

Earlier in the day, England had beaten South Africa 4-2 in nail-biting clash.

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