India 1-1 Scotland LIVE Score, FIH Women’s Hockey World Cup Qualifiers: Navneet Draws Women In Blue Level

The very experienced Navneet Kaur scores the equaliser for India!! For the second time, Sushila Chanu fails to trap the PC injection, but India keep the ball. Navneet receives posession and pulls the trigger, finding the bottom corner.

Pearson gets the second quarter underway, and it's much better from India, with Neha making a darting run towards the Scottish circle. The attack comes to nothing, though.

India win a PC after a close effort by Navneet. Manjeet is unable to trap the injection, and Scotland recover possession. Extremely sloppy play from India. Meanwhile, Bichu Devi makes a good save at the other end to deny Jamieson. The hooter brings an end-to-end first quarter to an end.

Best chance of the quarter for India, with Neha making her way into the circle. She passes it to Navneet on her left, who shot is batted away by Buchanan. Much more positive from the home side.

What a dazzling bit of hockey by Scotland! A good run into the circle results in the ball finding McEwan in the circle, whose backhander is saved by Bichu Devi, who makes another save to keep the rebound shot out.

However, from the resulting PC, Scotland find the breakthrough goal! Robertson's injection finds Eadie, whose dragflick is guided past the goalkeeper by McEwan. Scotland take the lead.

It has been a breathless start to this contest, with Scotland taking the fight to India and not letting the hosts build any bit of rhythm. Looks like we will have a good match on hour hands.

The pre-match formalities is done, with Olympics medalist PV Sindhu among the dignitaries to greet both sets of players. After the national anthems, we finally have pushback, with Scotland getting us underway.

• Fixture: India Women vs Scotland Women

• Series: FIH Women's Hockey World Cup Qualifiers 2026

• Venue: G. M. C. Balayogi Hockey Ground, Hyderabad

• Date: Monday, March 9, 2026

• Time: 7:30 PM IST

Good evening, hockey fans! This is the start of our live blog covering India’s Women’s Hockey World Cup qualifier against Scotland in Hyderabad. Stay tuned for pre-match updates and lineups as they are released.