Bangladesh romped into the final of the 5th Men's AHF Cup after thrashing Singapore 8-0 in the first semifinal yesterday.

The charges of Oliver Kurtz scored twice in the first half and pressed harder on their opposition at the other side of the break to score six more goals and record this emphatic victory at the King's Park hockey Ground in Hong Kong yesterday.

The men in red and green are scheduled to play the final today at 5:00pm BST, against either Sri Lanka or Hong Kong, who will face off in the second semifinal earlier in the day.

Bangladesh, the champions of the 2008 and 2012 editions, found it difficult to breach the Singapore goal line and so had to wait until the 26th minute to open the scoring. Young midfielder Roman Sarkar gave Bangladesh the lead from a field goal before Milon Hossain made it 2-0 three minutes later.

While the 2-0 scoreline at the end of the first half suggested a keen contest, the second half proved to be one-way traffic with skipper Rasel Mahmud Jimmy getting the team's third two minutes after restart. Mamunur Rahman Chayan, Pushkor Khisha Mimo and Krishna Kumar Das joined the goal fest before Ashraful Islam wrapped up the victory with consecutive penalty corner conversions in the final few minutes of the game.

A win in today's final would confirm Bangladesh's participation in the Asia Cup next year.