2004 India-Pakistan field hockey test series

Tournament details
City	Karachi, Quetta, Peshawar, Lahore Delhi, Chandigarh, Amritsar, Hyderabad
Dates	24 September 2004 - 10 October 2004
Venue(s)	8 in 8 host cities
Final positions
Champions	Pakistan won the series 4-2
Tournament statistics
Matches played	8
Goals scored	32 (4 per match)
Top scorer(s)	Sohail Abbas (8 goals)
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The 2004 Indo-Pak series was the 7th series of bilateral field hockey matches between Pakistan and India. The series was played over eight matches on home and away basis.

Each side hosted four matches from 24 September 2004 to 10 October 2004. Pakistan won the series 4–2. ^[1] This was the first time both sides were coached by foreign coaches in a bilateral series with Gerhard Roch of Germany coaching India and Roelant Oltmans of Netherlands coaching for Pakistan. During the match in Amritsar of the series Pakistan's Sohail Abbas broke the record for most goals in international men's hockey scoring his 268th goal surpassing Paul Litjens of Netherlands who held the record for 22 years. ^[2]

Background

Prior to the start of the series Pakistan and India had faced each other 6 times since January 2004. They first met at the 2004 Azlan Shah Cup in Kuala Lumpur with Pakistan winning 3–2. ^[3] They met twice in the 2004 Olympic Qualifiers in Madrid with Pakistan winning both matches. ^[4] In June Pakistan again defeated India twice this time by a huge margin of 6–1 at the Hockey RaboTrophy in Amsterdam. Both teams had a disappointing campaign at the Olympics in Athens Pakistan defeated India in the crossover rounds to finish 5th while India finished 7th.^{[ citation needed]}

Sohail Abbas scored 12 goals against India in these matches including two hat-tricks. This series was also in the lead up to the 2004 Champions Trophy to be held in Lahore from December.^{[ citation needed]}

Venues

Squads

India announced an 18-member squad on 20 September 2004. The Indian selection ignored veterans like Dhanraj Pillay, Baljit Singh Dhillon, Deepak Thakur and Gagan Ajit Singh, who all were part of the team at the Athens Olympics after the players made themselves unavailable for selection for different reasons. ^[5] Pakistan announced its squad on 20 September as well. Waseem Ahmed was made captain after former captain Muhammad Nadeem announced his retirement from international hockey after the last month's Olympics. ^[6]

Pakistan	India
Waseem Ahmed (C) Salman Akbar (GK) Nasir Ahmed Sohail Abbas Zeeshan Ashraf Muhammad Imran Imran Warsi Ghazanfar Ali Adnan Maqsood Dilawar Hussain Abdul Aasim Khan Imran Khan Rehan Butt Mudassar Ali Khan Kashif Jawad Shakeel Abbasi Adnan Zakir Tariq Aziz Shabbir Hussain Akhtar Ali	Dilip Tirkey (C) Devesh Chauhan (GK) Adrian D'Souza (GK) Harpal Singh Sandeep Singh William Xalxo Viren Rasquinha Vikram Pillay Girish Pimpale Ignace Tirkey V. S. Vinay Prabodh Tirkey Vivek Gupta Adam Sinclair Arjun Halappa Sandeep Michael Tushar Khandekar Hari Prasad
Coach Roelant Oltmans	Coach Gerhard Roch

Results

• Pakistan won the series 4-2

Matches

First leg

Match 1

24 September 2004   Pakistan 2 - 1   India Abbas   17' Butt   26' Report Halappa   3' Hockey Club of Pakistan, Karachi

Match 2

27 September 2004   Pakistan 1 - 4   India Abbas   69' Report Sandeep   13',  17' Tirkey   33' Khandekar   60' Musa Khan Stadium, Quetta

Match 3

29 September 2004   Pakistan 3 - 2   India Mudassar   15' Abbasi   25' Abbas   67' Report Prasad   48' Halappa   60' Lala Ayub Hockey Stadium, Peshawar

Match 4

1 October 2004   Pakistan 4 - 4   India Abbas   14',  42' Ali   57' Butt   67' Report Pillay   15' Sandeep   39' Halappa   49' Tirkey   51' National Hockey Stadium, Lahore

Second leg

Match 1

4 October 2004   India 1 - 3   Pakistan Michael   50' Report Jawad   6' Abbas   29',  64' Major Dhyan Chand National Stadium, Delhi

Match 2

6 October 2004   India 1 - 1   Pakistan Tirkey   33' Report Ali   22' Sector 42 Hockey Stadium, Chandigarh

Match 3

8 October 2004   India 1 - 2   Pakistan Halappa   48' Report Abbas   8' Butt   47' Guru Nanak Dev University Stadium, Amritsar

Match 4

10 October 2004   India 2 - 0   Pakistan Michael   17' Khandekar   21' Report Gachibowli Hockey Stadium, Hyderabad

Statistics

Team	P	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD
Pakistan	8	4	2	2	16	16	0
India	8	2	2	4	16	16	0

Goalscorers

There were 32 goals scored in 8 matches for an average of 4 goals per match

8 goals

4 goals

3 goals

2 goals

1 goal

References