Dhaka – Hosts Bangladesh will play Oman in a do-or-die pool match of the eight-nation Round-2 match of the Hockey World League on Tuesday at 4 pm at the Maulana Bhashani National Hockey Stadium here. Bangladesh (ranked 32) badly needed an outright victory against their arch-rival Oman (ranked 31) to assure quarterfinal berth from pool A. If the match ended in a draw in stipulated period then the fate of the match will be decided through penalty shootout.UNB agencyBangladesh suffered 0-3 defeat against Malaysia and outplayed Fiji 5-1 while Oman crushed Fiji 7-0 and conceded 1-6 defeat against group leader Malaysia in their pool encounters.Favorite Malaysia (ranked 13), which already the confirmed the quarterfinal berth from the pool A with two successive win against Bangladesh (3-0) and Oman (6-1), will play lowly Fiji (ranked 44) Tuesday at 9:15 am.The Pool B leader Egypt (ranked 20) will face Ghana (ranked 38) at 1:45 pm while China (ranked 18) will play Sri Lanka (ranked 41) at 11:30 in the other two matches of the day (Tuesday) at the same venue.
