The 1999 Indo-Pak series (known as the Pepsi hockey series for sponsorship reasons) was the 6th series of bilateral field hockey matches between India and Pakistan.
The series consisted of nine matches with India hosting the first leg of four matches and Pakistan hosting the second leg of five matches from 3 February 1999 to 24 February 1999.
Pakistan won the series 5–3.
Sohail Abbas, Pakistan's world renowned 'King of the drag flick', was the top scorer on both sides, netting 10 goals, and scoring at least once in six of the nine matches.
Background India went into the series as Asian Games Champions having defeated South Korea in the final of the 1998 Asian Games in December the previous year. Pakistan had been runner-ups in the 1998 Champions Trophy in Lahore a month before that.
Venues MatchLocationStadium NameDateFirstNew DelhiDhyan Chand National Stadium3 FebruarySecondBhopalAish Bag Stadium5 FebruaryThirdHyderabadBegumpeth Hockey Stadium8 FebruaryFourthChennaiMayor Radhakrishnan Stadium10 FebruaryFifthLahoreNational Hockey Stadium16 FebruarySixthKarachiHockey Club of Pakistan18 FebruarySeventhPeshawarLala Ayub Stadium20 FebruaryEighthRawalpindiArmy Stadium22 FebruaryNinthLahoreNational Hockey Stadium24 February
Squads India Pakistan Anil Aldrin (C) Jagdish Poonappa (GK) B. C. Poonacha (GK) P. U. Boppanna (GK) Dilip Tirkey Lazarus Barla Baljit Singh Saini Mohammed Riaz Ramandeep Singh Thirumal Valavan Shanmugham Pandurangan L. Prabhakaran Sameer Dad Gagan Ajit Singh Daljit Singh Dhillon Rajesh Chauhan Ravinder Singh Gurusevak Singh Kamal Horo Surinder Singh Deepak Thakur Sarabjit Singh Baljit Singh Dhillon Atif Bashir (C) Muhammad Qasim (GK) Ahmad Alam (GK) Sohail Abbas Aamir Saleem Muhamad Danish Kaleem Irfan Yousaf Muhammad Saqlain Waseem Ahmed Asad Qureshi Mubashir Mukhtar Muhammad Irfan Ejaz Rasool Muhammad Nadeem Muhammad Anis Ahmed Muhammad Sarwar Muhammad Khalid Naveed AsimCoach Vasudevan BhaskaranCoach Shahnaz Sheikh
Results
Pakistan won the series 5-3
+First LegMatchDateScoreLocation13 FebruaryIndia 3-4 (AET) Pakistan New Delhi25 FebruaryIndia 1-4 PakistanBhopal38 FebruaryIndia 2-5 PakistanHyderabad410 FebruaryIndia 3-0 PakistanChennai +Second LegMatchDateScoreLocation116 FebruaryPakistan 4-2 IndiaLahore218 FebruaryPakistan 4-2 IndiaKarachi320 FebruaryPakistan 1-2 IndiaPeshawar422 FebruaryPakistan 3-3 (11-10 p.s.o) IndiaRawalpindi524 FebruaryPakistan 2-3 IndiaLahore
Matches
First leg Match 1
Match 2
Match 3
Match 4
Second leg Match 1
Match 2
Match 3
Match 4
Match 5
Statistics Pakistan - Total goals scored 27
India - Total goals scored 21
Goalscorers There were 48 goals scored in 9 matches for an average of 5.33 goals per match
References