KUALA LUMPUR: The hiring of Pakistani hockey legend Sohail Abbas has led to Malaysia converting seven of 13 penalty corners (PC) in two matches in the ongoing Junior Asia Cup (JAC) in Muscat, Oman.
Sohail, the King of drag flicks, has been hired by the Malaysian Hockey Confederation since October to help the national senior and junior teams improve their penalty corner conversion.
Young Tigers are set to reach the JAC semi-finals after topping Group B by beating China 5-2 and Oman 9-1.
They got 13 penalty corners and converted seven, which was an encouraging 53.84% success rate.
Malaysia will play Bangladesh on Saturday and Pakistan on Sunday.
Coach I. Vickneswaran said: "We have been working on penalty corner set-pieces during training and it has been effective as we managed to convert penalty corners."