Railways Wins Murugappa Hockey Tournament

Indian Railways Men Hockey Team has won MCC Murugappa Gold Cup Hockey Tournament 2016 for the first time held at Chennai from 1st September – 11th September 2016.

In the finals Indian Railways Hockey Team beat Indian Oil Corporation Team by 2 – 1.

Before finals Indian Railways Hockey Team defeated the Bharat Petroleum Corporation Limited Team by 3 – 2 in the semi finals.

In the pool matches Indian Railways team played against Army XI, Punjab & Sind Bank, Oil & Natural Gas Corporation (ONGC) and Karnataka.

After winning three matches against Army XI by 4 – 1 ONGC by 7 – 2 and Karnataka by 8 – 2 Indian Railways Team entered into semi finals.