Bhopal: Playing their first match since the Women's Asian Champions Trophy triumph last year, the Indian eves showed class when they beat the visiting Belarus national squad with a 5-1 win.

India earned an early lead in the 11th minute through a penalty corner and quickly followed it up with a sensational field goal by Navjot Kaur in the 15th minute to go into the first break with a 2-0 lead.

Though Belarus did well in defending their circle in the second quarter, Punam Barla came up with good stick work to beat the defenders in the striking circle to set up a goal in the 29th minute. Sviatlana Bahushevich scored for the visitors in the 37th minute to end the 3rd quarter with 1-3 deficit. But the Indian women came back stronger in the 4th quarter and did well in earning PCs. It was captain Deep Grace Ekka (57') and Gurjit Kaur (60') who came up with a fine PC conversion to help beat Belarus 5-1.