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Mandeep Singh, Lalit Kumar Upadhyay, Gurjant Singh, Vivek Sagar Prasad and Harmanpreet Singh star in India men’s hockey team second successive win.

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Dragflick specialist Harmanpreet Singh, the highest goal scorer of the FIH Hockey Pro League, has been named as the Vice Captain of the team.

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Indian men's hockey team lost the Tokyo Olympics semifinal to world champions Belgium 5-2 on Tuesday (August 3). Alexander Hendrickx scored a hattrick for the Belgians to lift his side to the gold medal match. Here are a collection of pictures to sum up the thrilling semifinal clash between India and Belgium

KXIP has now won their last five matches in the ongoing IPL, keeping the hopes of qualifying for the playoffs alive. 

Mandeep Singh (61) and Chris Gayle (51) shared a 100-run stand for the second wicket to help KXIP chase down the 150-run target in 18.5 overs. With the win, Kings XI Punjab have now grabbed the fourth spot in the IPL 2020 standings with six wins from 12 matches. Kolkata Knight Riders,on the other hand, have dropped to the fifth place with six victories as well.

KKR player Nitish Rana turned up to play against Delhi Capitals even as he lost his father-in-law due to cancer and Kings XI Punjab player Mandeep Singh turned up to play against SunRisers Hyderabad after losing his father on Friday.

Mandeep, was drafted into the KXIP playing XI after missing three games, opened the innings for his franchise against SRH a day after losing his father. He was asked to begin the innings along with skipper KL Rahul in the absence of Mayank Agarwal, who is in great form in the 13th edition of the IPL Kings XI Punjab batsman Mandeep had managed scored 27, 6, and 0 in the previous three IPL matches he was picked for.

Mandeep is coming on the back of a tremendous domestic campaign with 696 runs in just 8 matches at a staggering average of 69.60. The 28-year-old has the ability to play as a floater for Kings XI Punjab in IPL 2020 and help the team win their first-ever IPL trophy. The 2020 IPL is slated to take place in the United Arab Emirates (UAE) from September 19 to November 10.

Last week, men's hockey team skipper Manpreet Singh, defender Surender Kumar, Jaskaran Singh, drag-flicker Varun Kumar and goalkeeper Krishan Bahadur Pathak were also tested positive for coronavirus.

India will now lock horns with Spain in the third match of the our of Belgium on Sunday. 

Five-time champion India thus maintained their unbeaten streak in the tournament, collecting 13 points from five league matches with the help of four wins and a draw. 

The 24-year-old Mandeep scored a hat-trick in India's 7-3 win over Canada in their fourth round-robin league match on Wednesday to seal the five-time winner's place in the summit clash against Korea.

The 24-year-old Mandeep fired in three quick goals (20th, 27th and 29th minutes), all of them coming in the second quarter, after Varun Kumar had given India the lead in the 12th minute of the high-scoring match.

The match was stopped in the fourth quarter due to heavy rains with around eight minutes left in the match.

DY Patil A's winning captain Iqbal Abdullah paid tribute to the spirit in the side for the triumph.

Simranjeet Singh (43rd, 46th minutes) scored a brace, while Mandeep Singh (10th), Akashdeep Singh (12th) and Lalit Upadhyay (45th) were the other goal getters for India against South Africa, ranked 10 places below India.

As per the rules of the six-nation tournament, the top two teams from the round robin stage will play in the final.

In fact, it is Australia against whom India lost in a shoot-out in the final of the last Champions Trophy in London. And that result would definitely be on the Indian players' minds when they take the turf on Wednesday.