PARIS: “Three points!” Craig Fulton, the Indian hockey coach summed up in two words, what he thought was the biggest takeaway for his team’s 3-2 win in the tense opener against a resolute New Zealand outfit at the Yves-du Manoir stadium in Colombes, the north-west suburbs of Paris.
PR Sreejesh, who had a busy day in office in the first Olympic tie in Paris for the Tokyo bronze medallists, saved India the blushes with a series of fine saves as New Zealand won penalty corner after penalty corner — nine in all — as the game wound down. Ahead of the Argentina meeting next Monday, he called the experience against New Zealand “a good wake-up call.”
