Day 8 and match 2 of the Men's Hero Hockey Junior World Cup in India where England take on Spain.

England had collected a single point in pool play (against New Zealand) before handsomely beating Egypt in cross-over, while Spain had lost their three pool games before narrowly edging Canada in cross-over.

Spain were first on the scoreboard in the 5th minute when Albert Beltran made the most of a bouncing ball in the circle that eluded a couple of English defenders. The Spaniards kept pushing and England were on the back foot for the first fifteen minutes of play. Harry Gibson in goal kept them afloat with a spectacular diving save but could not do much in the 19th minute on a penalty-corner well taken by Lluis Mercade.

England reacted well and had a penalty-corner of their own. They could not trap it but opened their tally a few minutes later by Christopher Proctor, deflecting in front of Spanish keeper Mario Fernandez Garin a hard cross from the right. England kept the upper hand until the end of the period but Spain still had their narrow one-goal lead going into the break.

England carried their momentum in second period and managed to come back on par in the 45th minute by their captain Andrew Bull on penalty-stroke. They sometimes had trouble containing the energetic runs of the Spanish forwards, led by an Albert Beltran, but the English defense was well backed by Harry Gibson, in fine form and making a stunn.