IND vs NED Highlights, Hockey World Cup: India's semis hopes dented after 3-1 defeat by Netherlands

IND vs NED Highlights, Men's Hockey World Cup 2026: The Dutch win 3-1. Massive blow to India's semis hopes. If later tonight, England beat Argentina, it will be the end of India's trophy dreams. Harmanpreet was totally off-colour today and that played a big role in the defeat. But the result is along expected line. The Dutch had the home advantage too.

IND vs NED LIVE Score, Men's Hockey World Cup 2026: Defensive lapse far out and the ball is stolen by a Dutch player, passed into the open space in front of goal and van Dam scores in the 55th minute of the game. Surely the match is over now. But no sympathies with Team India. They have been very poor today.

IND vs NED LIVE Score, Men's Hockey World Cup 2026: His sixth goal of the tournament. It comes via a penalty corner. In the 52nd minute of the game. A powerful shot. But he appears injured because shortly after he goes out for treatment. Hopefully it's not too serious. India need him badly

IND vs NED LIVE Score, Men's Hockey World Cup 2026: Hoedmakers receives a nice, long ball into the D and does the rest in the 51st minute. Dutch go up 2-0. Surely, it's the last straw for India. They have been poor today anyway.

IND vs NED LIVE Score, Men's Hockey World Cup 2026: It's Abhishek the winner of that. Amit Rohidas is denied but there is a referral. Another PC for India. By the way, Harmanpreet is not there. He is in the dugout. Great save by the Dutch goalkeeper. India denied again.

IND vs NED LIVE Score, Men's Hockey World Cup 2026: The Indian players have been very dull so far. Maybe they are saving their energy for the last 15 minutes. But that strategy is not making any sense. It's an important game for them. If they lose, their campaign will be in bad shape. Anyway, fourth and last quarter gets underway.

IND vs NED LIVE Score, Men's Hockey World Cup 2026: And the deadlock remains. 0-0. GOAL! Duco Telgenkamp is the goalscorer in the 41st minute. Gets the ball kind of near the goal and beats the goalkeeper. The Dutch take the lead.

Meanwhile, there is a PC for India. Their third. But one player has been penalised too. Harmanpreet is stopped again. He is totally out of touch today and it's proving costly.

IND vs NED LIVE Score, Men's Hockey World Cup 2026: There is no real urgency. Maybe, they want to take it deep before they go all out. By the way, there is a PC for India just as we wrote that. Their first. Thanks to the video referee. But the chance goes abegging. Harmanpreet is nicely stopped. Wait, there is a foot involved. Another PC. Another miss. Wide of the target. Harmanpreet is unhappy.

IND vs NED LIVE Score, Men's Hockey World Cup 2026: The former Australian cricketer is playing an important role in the inaugural ETPL later this year. No surprise, he is in the Netherlands. Good to see one of the biggest names in cricket. Actually, the T20 league starts on August 26, in a matter of days.

The third quarter is underway.

IND vs NED LIVE Score, Men's Hockey World Cup 2026: Lovely ball into the D, shot is taken but Suraj is in the way. He is having a great game today. It's 0-0, with the Netherlands being the better side. India particularly have been dull in this quarter. The second quarter ends. It's going be a much longer break.

So far the Dutch have earned four PCs but sadly for them, none has been converted. Nothing for the Indians as of now.

IND vs NED LIVE Score, Men's Hockey World Cup 2026: Wow! That's a big number. Not always you get to see so many people at a hockey game. But then it's the world cup and the home team is playing.

IND vs NED LIVE Score, Men's Hockey World Cup 2026: Second quarter underway and Dutch get another PC. Janssen stopped again. But there is another. A third one now. Great deflection by Manpreet. 0-0. Some serious threat there for Team India. They survived thrice in the space of a minute.

IND vs NED LIVE Score, Men's Hockey World Cup 2026: For the Dutch! Janssen goes for it. Stopped by a Indian player. It's Manpreet actually. Great work there. Sigh of relief for the Indian fans.

The first quarter ends and it's 0-0 in Amstelveen. It's a very short break. Stay tune

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.

Frankly speaking, not much happened so far and we are more than 10 minutes into the first quarter. Remember, India need to win this game to keep their semis hopes well and truly alive.

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.