India vs Australia Highlights, Men's Hockey Paris Olympics 2024: Harmanpreet strikes twice, IND clinch historic 3-2 win

India vs Australia Live Score, Men's Hockey Paris Olympics 2024: A third PC for Australia. Manpreet makes a laudable defensive effort as the last man standing in front of the goal, but conceds the PC.

Australia finally find the back of the net after initially missing through the penalty corner, with Thomas Craig opening the scoring for the side.

Q2, IND 2-1 AUS

India vs Australia Live Score, Men's Hockey Paris Olympics 2024: The Australians have been notably off-target today, which is quite unlike them. While their shots have been wayward, Indian defence has been brilliant with its interceptions. This is an excellent performance from Harmanpreet's men so far.

India vs Australia Live Score, Men's Hockey Paris Olympics 2024: The Aussies have come out with a lot more intensity in the second quarter, and quite unsurprisingly so. They win a penalty corner.

WHAT A SAVE FROM SREEJESH! The Indian goalkeeper shows great reflexes, raising his left hand in time to deny Aussies their opening goal of the match.

Q2, IND 2-0 AUS

India vs Australia Live Score, Men's Hockey Paris Olympics 2024: The second quarter begins. Australia make an excellent move but Brand fails to execute the finish, shooting the ball wide off the left post.

Q2, IND 2-0 AUS

India vs Australia Live Score, Men's Hockey Paris Olympics 2024: A dream start for India.

Australia never looked threatening in front of the goal, with the Indian defenders putting out an excellent shift in the opening 15 minutes. Despite missing a relatively simple chance in the early minutes, India bounced back brilliantly with Abhishek and Harmanpreet on the scoresheet. The side would be hoping for more of the same in the next 15 minutes

India vs Australia Live Score, Men's Hockey Paris Olympics 2024: This is incredible!

Harmanpreet scores through the penalty corner again. And water is wet.

Well, that's how easy he makes it! The Indian captain doubles the side's lead with an excellent goal as India continue to put pressure on the Aussies.

Q1, IND 2-0 AUS

India vs Australia Live Score, Men's Hockey Paris Olympics 2024: INDIA LEAD! ABHISHEK SCORES!

End to end stuff here. Right after Australia's penalty corner, India launch a surprise attack and Abhishek eventually finds the net, beating their goalkeeper Charter.

Q1, IND 1-0 AUS

India vs Australia Live Score, Men's Hockey Paris Olympics 2024: Sreejesh makes a brilliant save but Australia manage to win a penalty corner.

No harm done, though, as the Australian drag-flicker Hayward slots the ball wide off the left post.

India vs Australia Live Score, Men's Hockey Paris Olympics 2024: Australia with a series of attacks on Indian goal this time. However, none too threatening.

Hayward takes a shot but it is wide off the left post. Jarmanpreet, then, does excellent defensive work to negate another attack from the Aussies.

7 minutes remaining in Q1. IND 0-0 AUS

India vs Australia Live Score, Men's Hockey Paris Olympics 2024: An excellent chance goes begging!

Jarmanpreet delivers an excellent cross to an unmarked Shamsher inside the box, but the latter fails to collect the ball onto the stick. A poor touch meant the Australian defender had enough time to intercept and end the attack. A big miss for India, and they will hope it doesn't cost them in this game.

Q1, IND 0-0 AUS

India vs Australia Live Score, Men's Hockey Paris Olympics 2024: Gurjant leads an early move for India, but a timely interception from the Australian defender nullifies the attack. Shamsher Singh has the first shot on goal but it is saved by goalkeeper Charter.

Q1, IND 0-0 AUS

India vs Australia Live Score, Men's Hockey Paris Olympics 2024: Anthems are done, and Sreejesh led the final team talk in a group huddle before the match. A reminder that this is Sreejesh's final tournament with the men's hockey team.

Q1 begins!

India vs Australia Live Score, Men's Hockey Paris Olympics 2024: The players from both teams line up for the national anthems at the Yves-du-Manoir Stadium in Paris!

India vs Australia Live Score, Men's Hockey Paris Olympics 2024: If India fails to get a positive result against Australia, the side will turn its attention to the final match in Pool B, where Argentina take on the top-placed Belgium. A loss for Argentina would then bring the equation to goal difference, deciding the third and fourth places in the pool. Conversely, if India win, a victory for Belgium would be enough for the side to ensure a second-placed finish.

India vs Australia Live Score, Men's Hockey Paris Olympics 2024: Swiss life coach Mike Horn took the Indian men's team on a journey to Glacier 3000 in Switzerland during the side's three-day camp in the country. By pushing the team beyond their comfort zones, Horn aimed to foster camaraderie and confront their fears of failure. The team also underwent cycling adventure through picturesque Swiss terrain; Horn has worked with the 2011 World Cup-winning Indian cricket team, the 2014 IPL-winning KKR side, and the 2014 World Cup football champions Germany in his illustrious career.

India vs Australia Live Score, Men's Hockey Paris Olympics 2024: India wouldn't want to revisit the memories of their last encounter with Australia at the Olympics. The two sides met in Pool A in the Tokyo 2020 Games, where Australia thrashed the men in blue 7-1. Seven players from the XI that took on Australia – Harmanpreet, Sreejesh, Manpreet, Mandeep, Hardik, Shamsher, and Rohidas – will take the field against Australia today.

India vs Australia Live Score, Men's Hockey Paris Olympics 2024: It had been a brilliant performance from the Indian team in front of its home crowd in Odisha in February earlier this year, with Australia's late equaliser forcing a shootout after the game ended 2-2. However, India failed to hit a single goal in the shootout, losing 0-3.

Hockey India posts the Indian lineup for the side's final match of Pool B against Australia.

India vs Australia Live Score, Men's Hockey Paris Olympics 2024: Here's how Australia line up against India:

Andrew Charter (GK), Corey Weyer, Eddie Ockenden, Jeremy Hayward, Joshua Beltz, Aran Zalewski (C), Ky Willott, Jake Whetton, Lachlan Sharp, Craig Thomas, Tim Brand

India vs Australia Live Score, Men's Hockey Paris Olympics 2024: Lineups out!

Here's India's lineup for their final pool game against Australia:

PR Sreejesh (GK), Amit Rohidas, Jarmanpreet Singh, Harmanpreet Singh (C), Sumit, Shamsher Singh, Manpreet Singh, Hardik Singh, Abhishek, Gurjant Singh, Mandeep Singh

India vs Australia Live Score, Men's Hockey Paris Olympics 2024: Netherlands defeated Spain earlier this morning, jumping to top spot in Pool A with 10 points. However, they can still drop in position as Germany (2nd with 9 points) take on Great Britain (3rd with 8 points). A win for either would result in Netherlands losing their top spot. Spain, meanwhile, have finished fourth with 7 points.

India vs Australia Live Score, Men's Hockey Paris Olympics 2024: While Belgium are safely placed at the top with four wins in as many matches, India, Australia, and Argentina are in contention for the 2nd spot. Australia are currently second with 9 points, while India and Argentina have seven points each. In fact, their goal difference is similar too (+2), but India stay ahead as they have scored more goals.

India vs Australia Live Score, Men's Hockey Paris Olympics 2024: Interestingly, the last time India and Australia met in men's hockey was during the five-Test series in Australia this April. India would be aiming to put behind the memories of the series, though; the side faced a 0-5 clean sweep to the home side. Having said that, the Indian team has been impressive in the ongoing Olympics, barring the momentary lapses in defence.

India vs Australia Live Score, Men's Hockey Paris Olympics 2024: The Indian team have a golden chance to finish in the top-2, given they secure a win against Australia in their final Pool B match on Friday. Australia's only loss in the pool has come against Belgium, who crushed them 6-2. Will India hold the Aussies to potentially secure a favourable draw in the knock-outs?

India vs Australia Live Score, Men's Hockey Paris Olympics 2024: The Indian team made a dramatic start to their Olympic campaign with a 3-2 win over New Zealand, thanks to Harmanpreet Singh's goal in the dying minutes of the match. The Indian captain salvaged a draw for the side with yet another last minute goal in the second match against Argentina. The side did register a comfortable 2-0 win over Ireland but faced its first defeat earlier this week at the hands of world champions Belgium, losing 1-2.