Sydney, Feb. 6 -- Australia's inexperienced young team rallied from a defeat at the hands of Spain a day earlier to claim an unexpected 4-2 victory over Olympic champions the Netherlands in a FIH Hockey Pro League clash here on Thursday.
The young Australians started the first quarter far better than their opening match on Wednesday
and created a couple of early circle penetrations. The Dutch still exploited some big gaps in the Kookaburras' structure and had repeated success with long probing passes and runs through the centre, goalkeeper Jed Snowden doing sterling work on four occasions to deny them through the
first quarter.
Australia tightened their structure in the second period, which relieved a lot of the self-inflicted pressure....