HWL Final, India vs Australia — As it happened...

Follow live India-Australia hockey score and updates from HWL Final, being played in Bhubaneswar.

Courtesy: PTI

New Delhi: It's the proverbial trial by fire for hosts India as they start their Hockey World League Final campaign with an encounter against world champions Australia.

FULL TIME
INDIA 1 - 1 AUSTRALIA

01 December 2017

20:59 IST

60th min. So thus it ends with a draw, even as Rupinder Singh Pal continues to argue one of the referees. The match ends with an Indian flourish, like the start. But the match, as a whole, was a cagey encounter, with sparks of individual brilliance in between.

20:56 IST

58th min. Aussies, for a change, dominated the proceedings in the last couple of minutes without really troubling the Indian defenders. SV Sunil, what a run from the experienced player. he then opts for Gurjant Singh on his blind side instead of SK Uthappa, who's in front of him, inside the circle. Gurjant goes with a solo, a dribble only to wastes the chance.