Men's hockey team to return empty-handed, lose bronze play-off to Eng

Indian men's hockey team finished a disappointing fourth at the Commonwealth Games as it struggled to breach a stout England defence to lose the bronze medal match 1-2 here today.

England avenged their 3-4 loss to India in the group stage as Sam Ward (7th minute, 43rd minute) struck twice for the winners while Varun Kumar (27th) was the lone goal scorer for India.

India had won silver medals in the previous two editions, ending runners-up to Australia on both occasion.

India captain Manpreet Singh was naturally very upset with the outcome.

"We came here for a medal, but we didn't achieve that. We played really bad this tournament and I really don't feel like going anywhere tonight. We are so disappointed, we did not expect this will be the result of this tour," Manpreet said.

"We need to improve on many things, such as taking every chance, because every match we had chances in the first two minutes, but we always missed."
"For me the highlight was the first match against England, the last two minutes and we'd hoped it was also possible now, but that's too bad."