Day 8 of the Men's Hero Hockey Junior World Cup in India where Egypt take on Canada.

The two lowest ranked teams entering the competition could not upset the odds and played each other for 15th position. Play started slowly in the midday heat, then Canada took a slight edge on the proceedings; they had a first opportunity on penalty-corner but Gordon Johnston was too slow to deliver his flick and the Egyptian runners thwarted his attempt.

Egypt had a long period of domination during which they created havoc in the Canadian defense but could not deliver the final blow. Canada had trouble untangling themselves from the Egyptian press when they had the ball and relied more and more on individual runs to progress towards the Egyptian circle. Vikramjeet Sandhu earned a penalty-corner after a long run on the left wing, but Gordon Johnston was again slow to unleash his flick.

Egypt opened the scoring in the 32nd minute by Ahmed Karem, completely alone in the circle after a swift counter-attack and a couple of long passes left the entire Canadian team in no-man's-land. Canada were caught again on the back foot in the opening action of second period, conceding a penalty-corner. It was well executed by the Egyptians but shot marginally wide.

This was possibly the wake-up call that Canada needed and they started to play with more purpose. They forced a penalty-corner but once again could not capitalize on it. They too.