RAJGIR, Sept. 1 -- Rajgir woke up to an extremely hot and humid Sunday. The Indian and Japanese players had dreaded playing in the afternoon. But as the day progressed, there was a cloud cover protecting them at the Bihar Sports University Hockey Stadium here. The weather had improved. So did India's performance, albeit only marginally. Extremely porous and rusty in their Asia Cup Pool A opener against China on Friday - they won 4-3 - the Harmanpreet Singh-led squad produced a better show to beat Japan 3-2 and qualify for the Super 4s. Though the hosts defended better, allowing fewer circle penetrations, they also missed many open field goal opportunities which on any other day would have been converted by the India forwards. Both Mandeep S...