The Indian men's hockey team made a scintillating start to the Commonwealth Games on Sunday by defeating Ghana 11-0 in the first match of Pool B on Sunday. India scored five goals in the first half and two goals in the second half. The Indian team got 13 penalty corners in the match, out of which six were scored.

Vice-captain Harmanpreet Singh (11th, 35th and 53rd) scored a hat-trick while Abhishek (2nd), Shamsher Singh (14th), Nilakanta Sharma (38th), Jugraj Singh (22nd and 43rd), Akashdeep Singh (20th). ), Varun Kumar (39th) and Mandeep Singh (48th) also scored. In this Pool D match, the Ghanaian striker could hardly penetrate the Indian goal. Ghana got five penalty corners but could not score a single goal. India got the first penalty corner in the very first minute of the match and Abhishek converted it on the rebound. Ten minutes later, Harmanpreet doubled India's lead by scoring a penalty corner. A brilliant move from Abhishek and Lalit Upadhyay was converted into a goal by Shamsher to make the score 3-0. Akashdeep scored the fourth goal in the 20th minute. At the same time, two minutes later, Jugraj converted a penalty corner. In the fifth minute of the second half, Harmanpreet scored the second goal on the penalty corner. Three minutes later, Nilakanta scored on the rebound when Jarmanpreet Singh's first shot was saved by the Ghanaian goalkeeper. The very next minute Varun Kumar converted a penalty corner. Jugraj scored his second goal from the penalty corner. Mandeep and Harmanpreet scored a goal each in the last quarter. India now has to play England tomorrow.