{"id":304764,"date":"2018-10-29T04:35:18","date_gmt":"2018-10-29T04:35:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/?p=304764"},"modified":"2018-10-29T04:35:18","modified_gmt":"2018-10-29T04:35:18","slug":"hockey-india-pakistan-declared-joint-winners-of-asian-champions-trophy-2018","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/hockey-india-pakistan-declared-joint-winners-of-asian-champions-trophy-2018\/","title":{"rendered":"Hockey: India, Pakistan declared joint winners of Asian Champions Trophy 2018"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\" wp-image-304765 aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/india-n-pak-300x183.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"543\" height=\"331\" srcset=\"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2018\/10\/india-n-pak-300x183.jpg 300w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2018\/10\/india-n-pak.jpg 690w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 543px) 100vw, 543px\" \/><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">India and\u00a0Pakistan\u00a0were on Sunday declared as the joint winners of the fifth Asian\u00a0Champions Trophy\u00a02018\u00a0hockey\u00a0tournament at the Sultan Qaboos Sports Complex in Muscat after the final was abandoned due to bad weather conditions.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">India remained unbeaten in the tournament having topped the round robin stages with 13 points. However, Pakistan ended the round robin stages on the second spot with 10 points.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Earlier India had defeated Pakistan 3-1 in the round robin stage.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">However, the weather conditions played spoilsport as heavy rainfall made it difficult for both the teams to start the Final at Muscat.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Hockey India tweeted, \u201cIndia and Pakistan have been declared as joint winners of the Hero Asian Champions Trophy 2018 due to the Final being forfeited.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">\u201cThe Indian Men&#8217;s Hockey Team will share the trophy of the Hero Asian Champions Trophy 2018 with Pakistan after the Final of the tournament was forfeited due to adverse weather conditions on 28th October,\u201d Hockey India added.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">India maintained their unbeaten streak in the competition. They had reached the final by outclassing Japan 3-2.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">The Indian team were also the highest scoring team in the competition by scoring a total of 30 goals in six matches.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>India and\u00a0Pakistan\u00a0were on Sunday declared as the joint winners of the fifth Asian\u00a0Champions Trophy\u00a02018\u00a0hockey\u00a0tournament at the Sultan Qaboos Sports Complex in Muscat after the final was abandoned due to bad weather conditions. India remained unbeaten in the tournament having topped the round robin stages with 13 points. However, Pakistan ended the round robin stages on [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":37,"featured_media":304765,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[36,31],"tags":[9054,2847,574,4988,48,9055],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/304764"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/users\/37"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=304764"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/304764\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":304767,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/304764\/revisions\/304767"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/media\/304765"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=304764"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=304764"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=304764"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}