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Pakistan lose 6-1 to India in Hockey World League play-off 5     0 India has scored their second big win over Pakistan in six days, beating the men in green 6-1 in a World Hockey League play-off at London’s Queen Elizabeth Olympic Park on Saturday. Pakistan had lost their previous match against their arch-rivals 7-1 on Sunday. Pakistan's defeat comes in the playoffs for positions fifth to eighth of the Hockey World League's semi-final round, which are considered qualifiers for the Hockey World Cup. Pakistan will now play China for the seventh position on Sunday. Both Pakistan and India bowed out of the competition on Thursday after losing their quarter-finals to Argentina and Malaysia by margins of 1-3 and 2-3, respectively. In the remaining quarter-finals, the Netherlands had outplayed China 7-0 and England came from behind to down Canada 4-2. South Korea had defeated Scotland 6-3 to finish 9th in the 10 team event. All...

Big Show back on the big stage to push credentials for India SYDNEY - All-rounder Glenn Maxwell was disappointed not to get an Australia test recall during the recent overhaul of the squad but wants to use the one-day series against New Zealand to press his claims for next February's tour of India. Australia awarded debuts to three batsmen for the third test against South Africa at Adelaide Oval last month after losing the first two matches in the series on the back of a string of batting collapses. Although the prodigiously gifted Maxwell is better known for his all-out attack in shorter formats, he thought his recent performances had shown the sort of application that might have earned him another chance at test level. "I thought I might have been a chance," Maxwell told reporters on Thursday. "The way I batted in my first game back at the MCG against the reverse-swinging ball against Queensland, I thought that was a really good sign of the improvements ...

MANCHESTER  -   Zlatan Ibrahimovic  and  Anthony Martial   scored  twice as  Manchester United   crushed  West Ham  United  4-1 in the  League  Cup  quarter - finals  on  Wednesday , while  Arsenal  were  humbled  by  Southampton . United   manager   Jose Mourinho   served  a one-game  touchline  ban after his  dismissal  for kicking a water bottle during Sunday's 1-1 Premier  League  draw against West Ham, but his absence had no ill-effects. Ibrahimovic put  United  ahead in the second minute and although Ashley Fletcher equalised, Martial's second-half brace restored the hosts' control before the Swede added a fourth goal in added time. "After the West Ham goal we had 10 minutes where we felt it deeply. West Ham's first shot, they equalise," said Mourinho, who has overseen  United 's worst start to a top...