Early goals from Navneet Kaur (4th minute) and Carlotta Sippel (5th) set the tone for what was an exciting contest between world No. 9 India and world No. 5 Germany.
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Playing their debut season in the Pro League, the Indian women made a fine start to their campaign, beating China 7-1 and 2-1 in their opening two games in Muscat.
Two-time silver medallist Indian men are placed in a relatively easy Pool B alongside England, Canada, Wales and Ghana while Pool A consists of six-time champions Australia, New Zealand, South Africa, Pakistan and Scotland.
The matches were scheduled on March 12 and 13 here but "have been postponed due to a high number of COVID cases affecting the German team."
In the bronze medal match, the Indian pistol team finished with a total of 6 to finish at fourth place, behind Italy's Torracchi Alessio, Monna Paolo and Tesconi Luca, who aggregated 16.
Earlier this week, FIH had expressed its full solidarity to the members of Ukraine's hockey community at this terrible time.
India will play all their pool matches at the Wagener Hockey Stadium in Amstelveen, Netherlands in the event to be held from July 1 to 17.
The four-week preparatory camp began here on Tuesday and will end on March 26 before the team leaves for South Africa.
If world No. 4 India made a last-minute dash on Saturday to beat Spain 5-4 in a pulsating match, the scenario was completely opposite on Sunday as world no. 9 Spain were accurate with their penalty corner conversions to completely outwit the hosts.
But India, ranked ninth in the world, responded immediately through a field strike from Jyoti before Neha Goyal stunned the Spaniards in the 52nd minute with another field goal.
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Both the ties were played in Potchefstroom, South Africa. But the result against world no.12 France in the second match of the two-leg tie was way below expectations for India, ranked fifth in the world.
The team will be led by experienced midfielder Manpreet Singh and vice-captained by drag-flick specialist Harmanpreet Singh.
The Spanish men's team arrived here on Monday ahead of its two-legged Pro League tie against Olympic bronze medallist India.
The women's hockey team will face Spain in a two-legged tie in Bhubaneswar on February 26 and 27.
The Indian team has a packed calendar ahead with several big-ticket tournaments like the World Cup, Commonwealth Games and the Asian Games scheduled.
The 26-year-old from Amritsar made his International debut against France during the FIH Hockey Pro League matches in South Africa last week.
After an evenly contested first quarter when the scores were tied 1-1, India completely dominated in the remaining three periods, pumping in nine goals against the hapless South Africans to notch up their third win in four matches.
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