Britain and India will play off for a men's field hockey berth in the Olympics after they won their last round-robin games in the qualifying tournament on Saturday. Britain squashed Austria's hopes 4-0 and India accounted for Chile 4-1 to set up the anticipated showdown in Sunday's final, when only one of the former Olympic champions will go to Beijing. Russia beat Mexico 9-1 in Saturday's other match. Austria had a mathematical chance of making the final but Britain ended that when James Tindall scored after only five minutes. Glenn Kirkham then hit the post off a penalty stroke but Ashley Jackson scored in the 12th. Richard Mantell's penalty corner goal made it 3-0 by halftime, and while Austria improved to limit a cruising Britain to a last-minute goal by Rob Moore, the Austrians still couldn't breach Britain's defense. Britain finished the preliminaries with a perfect 15 points from five games, followed by India with 12 points, Austria 9, Russia 6, Chile 3 and Mexico zero. Prabhjot Singh opened the scoring against Chile in the ninth minute, then V.R. Raghunath and Bharath piled on in a one-minute span to put India well in control. Chile played well in the second spell but Raghunath delivered his tournament-best 10th goal from a penalty corner before Felipe Montegu rewarded home fans with the last score soon after. Dmitry Azarov scored twice as Russia routed Mexico 9-1 and defied its lowly world ranking to book an unexpected spot in the third-fourth playoff against Austria. Chile will meet Mexico to avoid the wooden spoon.Mowlam in Australian squad Eleven of Australia's gold medal winning field hockey squad at the last Athens Olympics have been selected in an initial 24-man squad for this year's Beijing Olympics. New South Wales pair Simon Orchard and Eli Matheson are two new faces in the Kookaburras' pre-Olympic squad along with goalkeeper Stephen Mowlam, who has broken a short-lived retirement to chase an Olympic spot. Orchard, 21, and Matheson, 24, have made the transition from the development squad into the national senior squad, with both showing good signs of improvement over the last 12 months, Hockey Australia said Saturday. Although they have little international experience –Orchard having played five games and Matheson 18 – they were impressive during the Kookaburras' recent 5-Nations tournament in South Africa. Mowlam surprisingly quit the game last year but the 31-year-old is back playing for Victoria in the national league and has won his way into the national squad. __
