England are the only team without a win and indeed are pointless after two rounds of the BDO Champions Challenge in Boom, Belgium. It may have been a ‘quantum leap in performance’ which was how Jason Lee the coach, described England’s play but they conceded two goals from long corners which was the result of some dreadful marking. ‘Somebody must have been asleep’ said Lee. Both Rajpal Singh, who opened the scoring, and Prabhjot Singh, who fired in the winner, were granted the freedom of the England circle. India’s other goal from a powerfully hit penalty corner by Dilip Tirkey. England did score from two of their six penalty corners. Relying entirely on Richard Mantell for the first strike they equalised two minutes before half time when he followed up the rebound from his own shot. Jonty Clarke (pictured) fired in a rebound from another penalty corner to equalise a second time. England have a rest day before tackling tournament leaders New Zealand on Tuesday. Today’s scores:
New Zealand 4 Japan 0.
Argentina 2 Belgium 3
India 3 England 2
