The third day of the IPA National Polo Championship (Open) 2018 had Sona Polo and Jindal Panther/Garcha Lions battling against each other to qualify for the finals that is scheduled to be played on 2nd Dec 2018.
The next chukker started with a long shot by Simran Shergill that marked the third goal of the team. This was soon followed by Abhimanyu’s counter attack that led the scoreboard to 5-3. The fifth chukker started and just when the first two minutes of the chukker wrapped, the ground witnessed a painful vision, when Abhimanyu Pathak was hit by the ball during the game. He was quickly taken to the hospital. As he was not able to continue to play, Samir Suhag came in to continue the play. The chukker witnessed the sixth goal of Sona Polo that had Gaurav in action. The gap of the scores was getting big, and increasing it Basheer Ali stroke the seventh goal for the team. It was followed by yet another goal for Sona Polo with a good effort by Gaurav Sahgal. The scoreboard read a promising score for Sona Polo at 8 and Jindal Panther/Garcha Lions at 3. But coming into play, Simran stroke the fourth goal for the team. His move was replayed by Naveen who stroke another goal for the team. The chukker wrapped at 8-5. The last chukker witnessed a very close match, where, although, Padmanabh stroke the opening goal of the chukker, he was followed by three goals back to back from the opposite team. The sixth goal for Jindal Panther/Garcha Lions were in dramatic action, Satinder took the ball through the ground but missed the goal after the ball hit the goal post and bounced back, but just when the hope was lost Simran came in to strike the ball. The next goal was a 60 yard penalty shot by Raul. The last goal of the match had Simran in action, where the match wrapped at 9-8.
DAY 1 – SAHARA WARRIORS EMERGE AS THE WINNERS ON DAY 1 OF IPA NATIONAL OPEN CHAMPIONSHIP
DAY 2 – SAHARA WARRIORS VICTORIOUS ON SECOND DAY OF IPA NATIONAL POLO CHAMPIONSHIP
