No top nine finish as players fail to control emotions

C-r-a-s-h!: A South African player colliding into goalkeeper Hafizuddin Othman at the Birsa Munda Stadium in Rourkela. — FIH

IRISH poet Oscar Wilde once said: “I do not want to be at the mercy of my emotions. I want to use them, to enjoy them and to dominate them.”

If only the Speedy Tigers had lived up to those words.