Semifinal would be a good result for India: Ashok Kumar

Published Thu, Feb 25 10 05:05 PM

Philem Dipak Singh New Delhi, Feb 25 (PTI) Member of India''s lone World Cup winning team Ashok Kumar doesn''t expect miracles from the current team under Rajpal Singh and feels reaching the semifinals would be a decent result for them. "We will have the home advantage and I am hoping that we can finish at the podium or at least reach the semifinals. That would be a good result for the country," Ashok told PTI. Even that would not be a stroll in the park for the Indian team and Ashok, who scored India''s winning score in the 1975 World Cup final in Kuala Lumpur, said the current team lacks match-winners and the players themselves lack killer instinct. "There are few good players in the current squad, as compared to our days. We had stalwarts like Ajit Pal Singh, B P Govinda, Surjeet Singh, Harcharan Singh, myself and many others who were match-winners. There are not many such players among the current players," Ashok, son of legendary hockey player Dhyan Chand, said. "Moreover, the current players lack the killer instinct. I don''t know the reason why. It may be due to lack of emotional attachment of the game in general," he said. MORE PTI PDS AY

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