“I’m really privileged to play not only one game, but 200 games for Australia and it’s great that it was against a really good opponent such as Germany as well,” Orchard said after the game in which Australia came from 2-0 down. 

“It was fantastic, a great experience.

“There was a lot of character shown from our team. It’s a young group and sometimes that’s something which can be questioned against a top notch opponent. 

“Going down two nil wasn’t ideal, but it showed really good qualities to come back.

“They have some fantastic players and no doubt we will run into them at the Olympics and it will be another crunch match so today was a really good test.”

The game started with Australia getting a quick chance on penalty corner just as the rain began.  

Australia had another chance on penalty corner with five minutes to go in the first quarter, but German goalkeeper Nicolas Jacobi pulled off a great save.

The ball flew down to the German circle and a tackle from Jeremy Hayward saw the Germans get their own penalty corner opportunity.

The first penalty corner missed the mark, but Florian Fuchs flicked the second into the goal following a struggle near the net.

The German team followed up quickly with a field goal from Tobias Hauke, giving the Germans a 2 nil lead.

Australia fought back immediately in the second quarter with Flynn Ogilvie racing the ball down to Australia’s circle before passing to Glenn Turner who lightly tapped the ball past the German goalkeeper and into the net.

The ball was quickly down in Australia’s circle again, and after a pass from Daniel Beale, Tristan White smashed the ball into the net to equalise the score between Australia and Germany.

Right on the half time buzzer and Florian Fuchs found himself with room to move, scoring a field goal for Germany and giving them the lead going into half time.

The third quarter saw a lot of opportunities for the Australian team with Blake Govers nailing a penalty corner with an excellent drag flick, again levelling the score between the teams.

Aran Zalewski scored a penalty corner goal in the final quarter firmly giving Australia the win over Germany with a final score of 4-3.

“I thought we came back very well,” Kookaburras head coach Graham Reid said. 

“It was a really good effort, and I think that game will provide us with a lot of things to work on between now and Rio.”