In Hockey, Germany beat Pakistan 1-0 in a hard fought Pool-D match of men's World Cup in Bhubaneswar today. 

Earlier in the evening, Jeroen Hertzberger scored a hat-trick to help last edition silver medallist the Netherlands spank a hapless Malaysia 7-0 in a lopsided opening encounter. 

Tomorrow, in Pool-C Matches, Canada meet South Africa at 5 p.m. and India play Belgium at 7 p.m.