Sindh, Punjab women triumph

Published November 13, 2001

LAHORE, Nov 12: Sindh Colours and Punjab Whites won their matches in the Fatima Jinnah memorial women hockey tournament at the National Hockey Stadium Monday.

Sindh Colours carved out a hard fought 2-1 win against Punjab Colours.

The first session of the play was full of thrill as both the sides launched a good number of attacks. But in the second half, though two goals were scored, the overall standard of the game remained below par.

For Sindh Colours inside-left Anila Khan (12th minute) and right-half Sanam Yousaf (36th minutes) shared the scoring honours.

Punjab Colours scored their consolation goal in the 58th minutes through centre-forward Neelma who converted the seventh penalty- corner.

For Sindh, Anila Khan converted a penalty-stroke while Sanam Yousaf banged home on solo field effort.

Punjab Colours got seven penalty-corners but could capitalize only one. Sindh Colours wasted all the six shot corners.

In the second match, four goals by international inside-left Razia Malik helped Punjab Whites thrashed Sindh Whites 8-1 after taking a commanding 5-0 lead at the interval.

Outside-left Beenish Hayat, centre-forward Ayesha Arif, inside-right Azra Nasir and Saira Bano struck one goal each for the winners.

The solitary goal of Sindh Whites came from left-half Sabra in the second half.

Punjab Whites got an early lead when Beenish Hayat struck in the fourth minute on field try. Razia Malik doubled the lead scoring her first goal in the 10th minute. Six minutes later Ayesha Arif increased the lead before Razia Malik netted her second goal in the 22nd minute to make it 4-0.

Keeping the goal scoring spree, Punjab Whites scored their fifth (29th minute) and sixth goal (34th minute) through Azra Nasir and Saira Bano respectively.

Sindh’s Sabra scored a field goal in the 42nd minute to reduce the margin But Razia Malik scored two goals in three minutes (56th and 59th) to complete her tally of four goals and her team’s eighth.

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