Three-time Olympic gold medalist Pakistan failed to qualify for the Olympics for the third time.
In the third-place match of the qualifiers played in Muscat, Pakistan failed to take the lead against New Zealand by 2-1.
To get a place in the Paris Olympics, the team had to get the third position in the Olympics qualifier, but in the third-position match, Pakistan was defeated by New Zealand 2-3.
The first quarter of the third-place match played in Muscat was scoreless, but at the beginning of the second quarter, Abubakar Mahmood converted a penalty corner into a goal to give Pakistan the lead.
However, six minutes later Scott Boyd of New Zealand leveled the match.
In the next moment, Pakistan got a penalty stroke on which Abu Bakr Mehmood scored to give Pakistan the lead again.
Pakistan’s 1-2 lead was maintained until the last few minutes of the last quarter, but New Zealand’s Hugo Engels scored eight minutes before the final whistle to make it 2-2, and then Scott Boyd scored a goal in the 58th minute to give New Zealand a lead of 2-3 which remained till the end of the match.
