Dilip Tirkey (2nd) and Prabhjot Singh (53rd) scored goals for the hosts through penalty corners.

India now have seven points from three matches, the same as Holland, but they are placed at number two position in the points table as the Dutch team has a better goal difference.

Playing before the home crowd the Chandigarh-lad Baljit Singh, who was adjudged man-of-the-match, kept the Germans at bay and stood like a rock to save all the eight penalty corners, the Germans earned and tried to convert.

India went into lead in the second minute of the match when Dilip Tirkey sounding the board through a penalty corner, the only one they earned in the first half.

As the teams changed sides, Indians earned their second penalty corner.

Skipper and penalty corner specialist Sandeep Singh hit a low drag flick and Prabhjot Singh sounded the post hitting from a rebound in the 53rd minute.