Taipei stun hosts in hockey

Bangladesh suffered a morale-shattering 7-5 defeat against Chinese Taipei in the Robi Asian Games hockey qualifiers at Moulana Bhasani National Hockey Stadium in Dhaka on Monday.
Bangladesh took a 2-0 lead within seven minutes of play after Kamruzzaman and Krishna Kumar had scored on five and seven minutes respectively.
But the hosts then conceded two goals to allow Chinese Taipei to comeback into the game before Mamunur Rahman Chayan again put them 3-2 ahead, converting a penalty corner on 21 minutes.
Tsai Ming scored the third goal for the winners two minutes later, while skipper Chen Yi scored just on the stroke of the breather to bring a 4-3 lead for his side at the break.
Bangladesh was totally subdued against the spirited display of Chinese Taipei and failed to change the run of play after the change of ends. Chayan scored two penalty corner goals more in the second half showing but failed to change the fate of the game as Bangladesh left the ground with an unexpected defeat.
Bangladesh will face Hong Kong tomorrow in its third match of the seven-team event. Earlier, Oman had to sweat hard to prevail over the fighting Sri Lanka 4-3 in the first match of the day.
Salah Nasser struck a first minute opener to give Oman an early lead. Sri Lanka came back into the match when Isanka Yayasundara sounded the board with a deft shot on 18 minutes.
Oman went ahead again with Hashim scoring the second but the lead did not last long as Panditharatne netted the equalizer for Sri Lanka on the stroke of the first half to put the match on level terms (2-2) at the break.
Maulafer Mohamed scored for Sri Lanka on 41 minutes before Oman scored three quick goals inside a matter of minutes. Omani striker Mohamed scored on 50 and 55 minutes, while Basim hit the net on 52 minutes (5-3).
Conceding a sizeable lead, Sri Lanka only managed to reduce the deficit to 5-4 with Maulafer Mohamed scoring the fourth goal for the islanders just two minutes before the hooter.
No match will be held today.