However, both sides play each other tomorrow to decide the pool winners. Bombay need to win outright while Karnataka will progress with a draw.

For Bombay, centre-forward Pakpi Devi led the onslaught on the Himachal Pradesh defence. She slammed home five goals including a hat-trick.

She also converted two penalty corners. Himachal Pradesh who managed to score just one goal, found the net through forward Santosh Kashyap. Bombay were up by five goals at half-time.

In Pool G, last year's runners-up Orissa walloped a lowly Andhra Pradesh 12-1 after leading by six at the interval.

Pepsu who beat Gujarat 4-0 are the other contenders and the clashbetween the two will decide qualifiers from the pool.

In Pool D Air-India who beat West Bengal yesterday, completed their outings with a 4-0 win over Kerala, who have lost both their matches. But with strong contenders Haryana who have two wins by huge margins and a draw against West Bengal, Air-India left for home.

Results

POOL D: Air-India 4 (Ashwini 2, Urmila, Neelamma) bt Kerala 0

POOL E: Jammu & Kashmir 9 (Parveen 4, Sarabjit 2, Gurpreet, Amandeep, Arti) bt Pondicherry 0

POOL F: Karnataka 14 (Christy Elena, Swetha 4 each, Rohini, Kumari 2 each), Pallavi, Divya) bt Bundelkhand 0; Bombay 9 (Devi Papki 5 including a hat-trick, Fatima Kujur 2, Jyoti Dodrai, Paulina Surin) bt Himachal Pradesh 1 (Santosh Kashyap).

POOL G: Pepsu 4 (Mandeep 2, Savita, Charanjeet) bt Gujarat 0; Orissa 12 bt Andhra Pradesh 0 (Anita 3, Sarita, Jashinta, Ashrita 2 each, Angela, Anarita, Agnecia)