Jogaraj Singh has made a choice to score in the final. Last year, in the final of the Men’s Asian Champions Trophy, when the match was a halt to India against China, it stepped into the up field and scored a rare field. In the Hockey India League this year, he broke three goals for a hat -trick in the final, when his team was honored by the Bengal Tigers.
And in Jhansi on Tuesday, Uttar Pradesh Jogaraj scored twice when the Power Houses Punjab re-claimed to the country’s highest honor in domestic hockey when they came to a goal to defeat Madhya Pradesh 4-1 in the 15th Hockey India Senior National Championship 2025. The last five editions.
Punjab was a hot red favorite on paper, which was purely based on star power in his squad, filled with Olympic medalists. Hardik Singh, who won the bronze medal twice, Punjab started the match cautiously, but still created.
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Jogger Singh in the final recently:
The winner scored in the Act Final
Score (three times) in Hill Final
Scored (twice) in the final of the Nationals pic.twitter.com/dtlotvZzb– vinayakk (@vaniakim) April 15, 2025
Madhya Pradesh took the lead in the 28th minute through a penalty corner changed by Pratap Lakra. Jagaraj, who was the most important run scorer in Hill, then scored an important equation for Hardik Singh’s men on a half -time paralysis to equalize the match. In the second half, all this was Punjab because Jaskran Singh won his team in the 38th minute, after which Maninder Singh was scoring at 46th, both were field goals. Jogaraj then applied the last touch by scoring his second in the 49th minute. Jogger won as the second leading goal scorer in the tournament behind Sharda Nand Tiwari of Uttar Pradesh.
“The project was to attack from the beginning and I can say that the boys have been executed well. Jogaraj has played extraordinary games. Although I still feel that we are deprived of some chances here, but we are happy with winning. Performing in the domestic circuit is always good and it looks like a good luck.
Earlier in the day, the host Uttar Pradesh started bronze by beating Manipur 5-1 in the third 4th position playoff. Tiwari scored once in the match, while Kishoha Surabh Anand was a tamma.
