On the other hand, Australia men maintained their absolute supremacy in the CWG hockey competition, winning the gold medal in all seven editions from 1998 to 2022. In the final match today was so much lop-sided that India could not create a singles penalty corner in its favour, let alone scoring a goal.

The humiliating defeat was an anti-climax for the Indian men, who put up impressive performance enroute to the final, winning four matches and drawing one. Placed in Pool B, India beat Ghana 11-0, Canada 8-0, Wales 4-1 and drew with host England 4-4 in their four league matches and then prevailed over South Africa 3-2 in the semifinals.

Mid-fieldeder Manpreet Singh led the Indian Men Team with Harmanpreet Singh as his deputy. The Indian team featured one player from Odisha. He was defender Amit Rohidas.

Indian men hockey team had won two silver medals in the history of Commonwealth Games. In the last Commonwealth Games (2018) in Gold Coast, India had finished fourth.

INDIAN MEN HOCKEY TEAM FOR CWG 2022: Goalkeepers: Parattu Raveendran Sreejesh, Krishan Bahadur Pathak. Defenders: Harmanpreet Singh, Amit Rohidas, Surender Kumar, Jarmanpreet Singh, Varun Kumar, Jugraj Singh. Mid-fielders: Manpreet Singh (Captain), Hardik Singh, Nilakanta Sharma, Akashdeep Singh, Vivek Sagar Prasad. Forwards: Abhishek, Gurjant Singh, Mandeep Singh, Lalit Kumar Upadhyay, Shamsher Singh.
Team Staff: Mitchell Pemberton (Manager), Graham Reid (Coach), Abhinav Sathe (Physiotherapist), Arup Naskar (Other).

RESULTS OF INDIAN MEN TEAM:
July 31: India (Abhishek 2-PC, Harmanpreet Singh 10-PC, 35-PC, 53-PC; Shamsher Singh 14-FG, Akashdeep Singh 20-FG, Jugraj Singh 22-PS, 43-PC; Varun Kumar 39-PC, Mandeep Singh 48-FG, Nilakanta Sharma 38-FG) beat Ghana 11-0.

August 1: India (Lalit Upadhyay 3-PC, Mandeep 11-FG, 22-FG, Harmanpreet Singh 46-PC) drew with England (Liam Ansel 42-FG, Nocholas Bandurak 47-FG, 53-FG, Philip Roper 50-FG) 4-4.

August 3: India (Harmanpreet Singh 3-PC, 56-PC, Amit Rohidas 10-FG, Lalit Upadhyay 20-PC, Gurjant Singh 27-FG, Akashdeep Singh 38-FG, 60-FG, Mandeep Singh 58-FG) beat Canada 8-0.

August 4: India (Harmanpreet Singh 18-PC, 19-PC, 41-PS, Gurjant Singh 49-FG) beat Wales (Gareth Furlong 55-PC) 4-1.

August 6 (Semifinal): India (Abhishek 20-FG, Mandeep Singh 28-FG, Jugraj Singh 58-PC) beat South Africa (Ryan Julius 33-PC, Mustapha Cassiem 59-FG) 3-2.

August 8 (Final): India lost to Australia (Blake Govers 9-PC, Nathan Ephraums 14-FG, 42-FG, Jacob Anderson 22-PC, 27-FG, Tom Wickham 26-FG, Flynn Ogilvie 46-FG) 0-7.
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TOP: Players of the Indian Men Hockey Team pose with their silver medal at the Commonwealth Games in Birmingham on 8 August 2022.
RIGHT: Odisha player Amit Rohidas of the Indian Men Hockey Team pose with his silver medal at the Commonwealth Games in Birmingham on 8 August 2022.