Saturday, August 4, 2012

London2012: Sohail Abbas’s blunder as captain

By Jawad Hussain


KARACHI (TheSportsNext) August 4, 2012: The Great Britain gave Pakistan a serious pounding in the London 2012 Hockey Tournament on Friday night but Pakistani skipper Sohail Abbas clearly lost his composure as leader of the team as he was involved in a blunder right at the start of second half.

 

Referee Marcelo Servetto showed green card to Pakistani hockey player Muhammad Waqas at the stroke of first half which meant that the Green Shirts should field 10 players in the second half until the ban completed its tenure.

However, Pakistani skipper Sohail Abbas, who scored his 347th international goal in the match, looked under tremendous pressure and completely forgot the referee’s instructions and all eleven Pakistani players took the field when the second half begun.

Marcelo Servetto soon spotted the discrepancy and made Sohail Abbas to join Muhammad Waqas on the bench for the technical foul.

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