FIH Men's Junior Hockey World Cup: Sanjay and Hundal scored hat-tricks as India cruised to a huge 13-1 win against Canada.

India's comprehensive win over Canada put them on the top of the Pool C points table.

Hockey World Cup 2018 Highlights, India vs Canada Hockey Match: India marched into the quarterfinals of the 2018 Hockey World Cup after registering a comprehensive win over Canada.

India are presently on top of group with four points but Belgium, with the same number of points and separated only by goal difference.

India can book a direct berth to the quarter-finals if they defeat Canada and have a better goal difference than Belgium, who face South Africa.

India are on top of Pool C currently and will be keen to keep their position intact.

Captain Scott Tupper equalised for Canada in the 45th minute of the game.

The Manpreet Singh-led side dominated South Africa in all the four quarters of the game.

The Odisha Hockey World Cup 2018 gets underway from Wednesday.

This is the third time India are hosting the event after having organised it in 1982 in Mumbai and in 2010 in New Delhi.

The tournament begins on November 28 and ends on December 16.

By virtue of this win, Canada not only finished fifth in the tournament but also qualified for next year's World Cup.

India were by far the better side on display and scored through Mandeep Singh (35th minute), Harmanpreet Singh (46th), Varun Kumar (60th) and Ajit Pandey (66th) to garner full three points from the encounter

Having already qualified for the Rio Olympics 2016 quarterfinals, India were held to a 2-2 draw by Canada in their final Pool B match. Catch hockey highlights of India vs Canada here

India are now third in the round-robin league standings of the 25th Sultan Azlan Shah Cup with two wins from three games.

India have three points from two matches at the Sultan Azlan Shah Cup, having lost to Australia and won against Japan. The Sardar Singh-led side faces Canada next

FIH Hockey World League Final's top two teams - Australia and the Netherlands - will now lock horns in the first semi-final of the tournament on Friday.

Great Britain will take on hosts India in the quarterfinal after they drew their final group match against Belgium 3-3 at the FIH Hockey World League Final 2015 in Raipur. Australia thrashed Canada 6-0 but failed to go top of the Pool A standings.