Kuala Lumpur, Sep 20: Putting behind poor showing at Champions Trophy and absence of Jugraj Singh, a confident but not complacent India open their campaign against China in the 6th edition of the Asia Cup Hockey here tomorrow with that the hope that this time they will go back home with the trophy. ''It is time we break the jinx. We have been runners up four times and bronze medallist in the last edition and now we should win the cup,'' said coach Rajinder Singh.
It was in this city way back in 1975 that India had won their only World Cup title and Rajinder is hopeful that ''luck will smile on his boys this time so that they will win the Asia Cup for the first time''.
''It is very crucial tournament. A title win here will give us a ticket for 2006 world cup and players will not have to go through the world qualifier, ''the coach said and added the players understand it''.
The Indians are not underestimating China and they still have not forgotten the harrowing time they had to go through against the Chinese in the Asian Games at Bangkok.

Chinese have nothing to lose so they can create lot of problems for other teams. They simply crowd the defence and the rival forwards find it very hard to penetrate that wall.
Bureau Report