IND vs NED LIVE Score, Hockey World Cup: India-Netherlands vital game kicks off

IND vs NED LIVE Score, Men's Hockey World Cup 2026: Finally, the match is underway. India applies early pressure. Four minutes gone just like that. Both teams are sizing each other up.

IND vs NED LIVE Score, Men's Hockey World Cup 2026: India first! Indian players are awfully serious. Just plain singing of the anthem. Indian girls were different yesterday, all smiling! Now it's the Netherlands. Guess what? Hand on heart, they all are smiling.

IND vs NED LIVE Score, Men's Hockey World Cup 2026: With five goals, he is the joint-highest goal-scorer in the tournament with Belgium's Tom Boon. India need him today, more than ever before. Both sides are evenly matched. It should be a cracker of a game.

IND vs NED LIVE Score, Men's Hockey World Cup 2026: “We’re a little bit behind the eight ball because we didn’t take the three points through. But at this level as well, any team can beat any team. That doesn’t mean we’re out. We have to take care of our two games. We’ll just go one game at a time and let’s see what happens,” the India head coach told Sportstar.

IND vs NED LIVE Score, Men's Hockey World Cup 2026: Suraj Karkera, Harmanpreet Singh, Jarmanpreet Singh, Sukhjeet Singh, Sanjay, Hardik Singh, Manpreet Singh, Rajinder Singh, Sumit, Mandeep Singh, Abhishek.

Substitutes: Mohith HS, Dilpreet Singh, Yashdeep Siwach, Vivek Sagar Prasad, Amit Rohidas, Shilanand Lakra, Aditya Lalage.

IND vs NED LIVE Score, Men's Hockey World Cup 2026: Going by the previous matches in the tournament, there is invariably a 10-minute delay due to the mandatory playing of the national anthems of both teams. Just in case you didn't know this.

IND vs NED LIVE Score, Men's Hockey World Cup 2026: The Dutch last won in 1998. They first two wins came in 1973 and 1990. Since 1998, they have lost two finals in 2014 and 2018 against Australia and Belgium. Playing at home, this is a big opportunity for them to add a fourth feather to their cap.

IND vs NED LIVE Score, Men's Hockey World Cup 2026: 3-1 win vs Wales

4-2 defeat by England

5-3 win over Pakistan

That fact they have lost to England is haunting. England are also in Pool E but the Indians won't play them again and the result of the previous match between them will carry over into Phase 2, which means, in simple terms, India have already lost one game in the second round.

IND vs NED LIVE Score, Men's Hockey World Cup 2026: India's situation is pretty much like the English football team. India's only hockey World Cup win came 51 years ago. England have not won a football World Cup since 1966. Apt analogy, is not it? India should have won more since they were a much bigger hockey powerhouse back then.

IND vs NED LIVE Score, Men's Hockey World Cup 2026: To our coverage from India's first game of the second phase, against hosts Netherlands. Stay tuned. The match will start at 7:30 pm.