India–Pakistan field hockey rivalry

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India–Pakistan field hockey rivalry
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The Indian and Pakistani flags
Native nameUrdu: پاک بھارت ہاکی مسابقت
Hindi: भारत - पाकिस्तान हॉकी प्रतिद्वंद्विता
LocationWorldwide
Teams India
 Pakistan
First meetingIndia India 1–0 Pakistan Pakistan
Olympics Gold medal match
(6 December 1956)
Latest meetingIndia India 4–3 Pakistan Pakistan
Asian Champions Trophy[1]
(22 December 2021)
Statistics
Meetings total177
Most winsPakistan (82)
Largest victoryPakistan Pakistan 7–1 India India
(3 January 1980)[2]

PakistanPakistan 7-1 India India
( 1 December 1982)[3]

India India 7–1 Pakistan Pakistan
(18 June 2017)[4]

India and Pakistan have played against each other several times in field hockey. They participate in Asian Games, Commonwealth Games, Men's Hockey Asia Cup, Hockey Champions Trophy, Sultan Azlan Shah Cup and Summer Olympic Games.

India and Pakistan have a record of facing each other in the first seven Asian games hockey finals. They have played a total of nine finals against each other in which Pakistan has won seven and India has won two gold. Both nations have played each other from 1956 to 1964 in three successive Olympic Hockey finals. India won gold twice while Pakistan won once. They played in four Asia cup hockey finals against each other. Pakistan won three out of those. Pakistan have a record of winning the first three Asia cup hockey (i.e. 1982, 1985 and 1989) against India in row. Both teams participate in Sultan Azlan Shah hockey which is held every year in Malaysia.

Statistics[]

By Year

Year wise record of India vs Pakistan Hockey:[5]

Year Matches Results Goals
India India Pakistan Pakistan Draw India India Pakistan Pakistan
1950s 2 1 0 1 1 0
1960s 6 2 3 1 3 5
1970s 13 3 9 1 10 27
1980s 46 14 22 10 79 111
1990s 26 9 13 4 52 62
2000s 47 14 27 6 108 128
2010s 35 19 8 8 102 62
2020s 2 2 0 0 7 4
Total 177 64 82 31 362 399
By Tournament

The record between India and Pakistan by tournament is:[6]

Tournament Matches Results Goals
India India Pakistan Pakistan Draw India India Pakistan Pakistan
India vs Pakistan Test series 52 16 25 11 104 124
Summer Olympics 7 2 4 1 3 8
World Cup 5 3 2 0 10 7
Champions Trophy 19 7 12 0 48 54
Asian Games 15 4 8 3 17 29
Asia Cup 8 3 5 0 17 19
Asian Hockey Champions Trophy 10 6 2 2 28 22
Commonwealth Games 3 1 1 1 10 10
FIH Hockey World League 3 2 0 1 15 4
Afro-Asian Games 2 2 0 0 7 3
Other Matches (Continent wise)
Africa 2 1 0 1 5 2
Americas 2 0 1 1 5 8
Asia 34 14 14 6 65 67
Europe 10 1 8 1 16 33
Oceania 5 2 0 3 12 9
Total 177 64 82 31 362 399

Major Tournaments Won[]

  •    indicates that the team holds record number of titles in that competition.
Tournaments India India Pakistan Pakistan
Summer Olympics 8 3
World Cup 1 4
Champions Trophy 0 3
Sultan Azlan Shah Cup 5 3
Champions Challenge 1 0
Hockey Series 1 0
Asia Cup 3 3
Asian Champions Trophy 3 3
Asian Games 3 8
Afro-Asian Games 1 0
South Asian Games 1 3
Total 27 30

India v/s Pakistan Test Series[]

India and Pakistan have played test series from 1978 to 2006. They played 8 test series in this span out of which Pakistan won 6, India won 1 and 1 was drawn. Out of 52 matches played Pakistan has won 25, India has won 16 and 11 are drawn. The goal aggregation so far is (Pakistan Pakistan 124 - 104 India India). In 1998 both hosted 4 matches out of which Pakistan won 4, India won 3 and one was drawn.[7] The last was played in 2006 with three matches in both nations. Pakistan won the three matches while India won one and two were drawn.

Indo-Pak test series of field hockey is expected to restart from 2013 as declared by Hockey India.[8]

The overall results of the test series are:[9]

Year Matches Winner Results  Pakistan  India
Captain Coach Captain Coach
1978 4 Pakistan Pakistan win 3–1 Islahuddin Siddique Pakistan Sayad A. Hussain Victor Philips India Randhir Singh Gentle
1981 4 Pakistan Pakistan win 2–1 Akhtar Rasool Pakistan Zakauddin Surjit Singh Randhawa India Harmeek Singh
1986 7 India India win 3–2 Hassan Sardar Pakistan Anwar Ahmad Khan Mohammed Shahid India M. P. Ganesh
1988 6 Draw 2–2 Nasir Ali Pakistan Manzoor-ul-Hasan M. M. Somaya India M. P. Ganesh
1998 8 Pakistan Pakistan win 4–3 Tahir Zaman Pakistan Islahuddin Siddique Dhanraj Pillay India V Bhaskaran
1999 9 Pakistan Pakistan win 5–3 Atif Bashir Pakistan Shahnaz Sheikh Anil Aldrin India V Bhaskaran
2004 8 Pakistan Pakistan win 4–2 Waseem Ahmad Netherlands Roelant Oltmans Dilip Tirkey Germany Gehard Rach
2006 6 Pakistan Pakistan win 3–1 Muhammad Saqlain Pakistan Asif Bajwa Ignace Tirkey India Rajinder Singh Jr.

Results in major tournaments[]

The following table show India vs Pakistan in major tournaments and their finishing in the tournament:

Tournament Year Venue Winning team, result
Olympic Games 1956 Australia Melbourne  India, 1–0
Asian Games 1958 Japan Tokyo Draw, 0–0
Olympic Games 1960 Italy Rome  Pakistan, 1–0
Asian Games 1962 Indonesia Jakarta  Pakistan, 2–0
Olympic Games 1964 Japan Tokyo  India, 1–0
Asian Games 1966 Thailand Bangkok  India, 1–0
Asian Games 1970 Thailand Bangkok  Pakistan, 1–0
Asian Games 1974 Iran Tehran  Pakistan, 2–0
World Cup 1975 Malaysia Kuala Lumpur  India, 2–1
Asian Games 1978 Thailand Bangkok  Pakistan, 1–0
Asia Cup 1982 Pakistan Karachi  Pakistan, 4–0
Asian Games 1982 India New Delhi  Pakistan, 7–1
Sultan Azlan Shah Cup 1983 Malaysia Ipoh Draw, 1–1
Asia Cup 1985 Bangladesh Dhaka  Pakistan, 3–2
Sultan Azlan Shah Cup 1985 Malaysia Ipoh  India, 1–0
Olympic Games 1988 South Korea Seoul  Pakistan, 2–1
Asia Cup 1989 India New Delhi  Pakistan, 2–0
Asian Games 1990 China Beijing  Pakistan, 3–2
Sultan Azlan Shah Cup 1991 Malaysia Ipoh  India, 1–0
South Asian Games 1995 India Madras  India, 5–2
Sultan Azlan Shah Cup 2000 Malaysia Ipoh  Pakistan, 2–1[10]
Asian Games 2002 South Korea Busan  India, 4–3
Afro-Asian Games 2003 India Hyderabad  India, 4–2
 India, 3–1
Asia Cup 2003 Malaysia Kuala Lumpur  Pakistan, 4–2
 India, 4–2
Olympic Qualifier 2004 Spain Madrid  Pakistan, 5–3
 Pakistan, 4–2
Olympic Games 2004 Greece Athens  Pakistan, 3–0
Sultan Azlan Shah Cup 2004 Malaysia Ipho  Pakistan, 3–2
Sultan Azlan Shah Cup 2005 Malaysia Ipoh  Pakistan, 3–2
Commonwealth Games 2006 Australia Melbourne  Pakistan, 4–1
South Asian Games 2006 Sri Lanka Colombo  India, 2–0
 Pakistan, 3–2
Sultan Azlan Shah Cup 2008 Malaysia Ipoh  India, 2–1
Asia Cup 2009 Malaysia Kuantan  Pakistan, 3–2
Sultan Azlan Shah Cup 2009 Malaysia Ipoh  India, 2–1
Hockey Champions Challenge I 2009 Argentina Salta  Pakistan, 6–3
World Cup 2010 India New Delhi  India, 4–1
South Asian Games 2010 Bangladesh Dhaka  India, 5–1
 Pakistan, 1–1 (4–3 p.s.o)
Commonwealth Games 2010 India New Delhi  India, 7–4
Sultan Azlan Shah Cup 2010 Malaysia Ipoh  India, 4–2
Asian Games 2010 China Guangzhou  India, 3–2
Asian Champions Trophy 2011 China Ordos Draw, 2–2
 India, 0–0 (4–2 p.s.o)
Sultan Azlan Shah Cup 2011 Malaysia Ipoh  Pakistan, 3–1
Sultan Azlan Shah Cup 2012 Malaysia Ipoh  India, 2–1
Champions Trophy 2012 Australia Melbourne  Pakistan, 3–2
Asian Champions Trophy 2012 Qatar Doha  India, 2–1
 Pakistan, 5–4
Sultan Azlan Shah Cup 2013 Malaysia Ipoh  India, 3–1
 India, 4–2
Asian Champions Trophy 2013 Japan Kakamigahara  Pakistan, 5–4
Asian Games 2014 South Korea Incheon  Pakistan, 2–1
 India, 1–1 (4–2 p.s.o)
Champions Trophy 2014 India Bhubaneswar  Pakistan, 4–3
FIH Hockey World League 2014–15 Belgium Antwerp Draw, 2–2
South Asian Games 2016 India Guwahati  Pakistan, 2–1
 Pakistan, 1–0
Sultan Azlan Shah Cup 2016 Malaysia Ipoh  India, 5–1
Asian Champions Trophy 2016 Malaysia Kuantan  India, 3–2
 India, 3–2
FIH Hockey World League 2016-17 United Kingdom London  India, 7–1
 India, 6–1
Asia Cup 2017 Bangladesh Dhaka  India, 3–1
 India, 4–0
Commonwealth Games 2018 Australia Gold Coast Draw, 2–2
Champions Trophy 2018 Netherlands Breda  India, 4–0
Asian Games 2018 Indonesia Jakarta  India, 2–1
Asian Champions Trophy 2018 Oman Muscat  India, 3–1
Asian Champions Trophy 2021 Bangladesh Dhaka  India, 3–1
 India, 4–3

Other Matches[]

Other matches played between India and Pakistan are:

Tournament Year Venue Results (India-Pakistan Match)
India India Pakistan Pakistan Note
Hockey Festival 1966 Germany Hamburg 1 1 Draw
Pre-Olympic Invitation Tournament 1967 United Kingdom London 0 1 Pakistan Pakistan Win
Jinnah Memorial Cup 1976 Pakistan Lahore 0 5 Pakistan Pakistan win
Pentangular Cup 1980 Malaysia Kuala Lumpur 1 3 Pakistan Pakistan win
Test Matches 1982 United Arab Emirates Dubai 1 5 Pakistan Pakistan win
1 3 Pakistan Pakistan win
Esanda Cup 1982 Australia Melbourne 2 1 India India Win
Golden Jubilee Cup 1983 Hong Kong Hong Kong 1 5 Pakistan Pakistan win
Test Matches 1985 Kuwait Kuwait City 1 0 India India Win
1 0 India India Win
Qatar Doha 1 1 Draw
Emirates Cup 1986 United Arab Emirates Dubai 2 2 Draw
Kuwait Kuwait City 3 3 Draw
4 Nations Cups 1986 Soviet Union Leningrad 0 2 Pakistan Pakistan Win
Marshall Invitation Cup 1988 Kenya Nairobi 3 0 India India Win
2 2 Draw
Indira Gandhi Gold Cup 1989 India Lucknow 0 3 Pakistan Pakistan Win
Atlanta Challenge Cup 1996 United States Atlanta 2 2 Draw
Prime Ministers Cup 2001 Bangladesh Dhaka 3 3 India India Win in Penalties (6-5)
4 nations tournament 2003 Australia Perth 2 0 India India Win
Australia Sydney 4 4 Draw
Rabobank 4 nations Tournament 2004 Netherlands Amsterdam 1 6 Pakistan Pakistan Win
3 5 Pakistan Pakistan Win
Rabobank 8 nations mini world cup 2005 Netherlands Amsterdam 1 3 Pakistan Pakistan Win
3 nations tournament 2011 Australia Busselton 3 3 Draw
Australia Bunbury 1 1 Draw
Friendly 2011 India India 2 3 Pakistan Pakistan Win
Lanco International Super Series Hockey Tournament [11] 2012 Australia Perth 5 2 India India Win

See also[]

References[]

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  3. ^ "Indo-Pak Hockey Highs and Lows and Streaks". Retrieved 29 September 2016.
  4. ^ Sen, Debayan (19 June 2017). "HWL: India thrash Pakistan to stay atop Group B". ESPN. Retrieved 1 September 2018.
  5. ^ "Indo-Pak Year-wise Win-Loss Record". Retrieved 29 September 2016.
  6. ^ "Indo-Pak Tournament-wise Win-Loss Record". Retrieved 29 September 2016.
  7. ^ "1998 Indo-Pak Hockey Series". Retrieved 29 September 2016.
  8. ^ "Indo-Pak hockey tests to start from 2013 onwards". The Hindu. August 29, 2012.
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