After India suffered a shock exit from the Hockey World Cup 2023, Hockey India president and legendary defender Dilip Tirkey rued that the hosts wasted many chances.
Tirkey, the most capped Indian player with 412 international matches, stated that the Men In Blue wasted too many penalty corners, which was one of the many reasons behind India's unsuccessful campaign in the Hockey World Cup.
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"We got a lot of chances to win the match. We have been talking that penalty corners are very important to win matches, but we wasted one after the other," Tirkey, a former captain and one of the best defenders of his time, said in a video on his Twitter handle.
"After that, we got the chance to win in the penalty shootout. We got two chances. Our goalkeepers saved twice in sudden death and we had the chance to win, that also we wasted," he said without criticising the team.