Walmiki spearheads Central's win over holders BPCL

Central Railway, Mumbai showed great character and fighting spirit to humble defending champions Bharat Petroleum Corporation Limited, Bengaluru 4-3 in a thrilling Pool A match of the Dabang Mumbai 50th Bombay Gold Cup hockey tournament here today.
The scores were level at 3-all at the end of the first session in the well-contested game at the MHAL-Mahindra Stadium.
Both Central and BPCL are already through to the quarter-finals and would meet CAG and Air India in tomorrow's quarter-finals.
Discarded India forward Yuvraj Walmiki spearheaded Central attack to notch two goals in the 2nd and 10th minutes while his cousin Devender Walmiki (12th) and Victo Singh (53rd) scored the railwaymen's other goals.

For the star-studded BPCL, who trailed Central 0-3, Gurpreet Singh opened the account off a penalty corner awarded in the 25th minute before international S V Sunil restored parity by slamming in two goals in as many minutes before half time.
After switching ends, BPCL mounted pressure on the Central citadel, but they defended stoutly before regaining the lead from a swift counter and then hung on dearly to their lead to troop out worthy winners.
Later, South Central Railway, Secundrabad bounced back strongly after yesterday's 1-7 drubbing against Indian Oil to trounce Mumbai Customs 6-0 in the final Pool D league and qualify for the last eight along with Indian Oil.

South Central scored their goals through Gurbhej Singh (10th, Atul (22nd), Sadeep Singh (25th), Poonacha M G (38th), Mayank James (39th) and Ayappa (65th).