The bitter loss to Australia in the Commonwealth Games final is “hard to digest” but the Indian hockey team will have to move on, said star drag-flicker Harmanpreet Singh, promising a thread-bare analyse of the side’s performance in Birmingham.

In one of its worst performances in recent times, India suffered an embarrassing 0-7 drubbing at the hands of defending champions Australia to settle for a silver medal on Monday. “It is hard to digest a loss by such a big margin,” the India vice-captain said in a Hockey India (HI) release after returning to the country early on Wednesday morning.