Aussie men's hockey team win seventh straight Commonwealth Games gold

Australia's Kookaburras have won a seventh-straight Commonwealth gold to catapult leader Eddie Ockenden into rare hockey air.

Monday's 7-0 annihilation of India was a fourth title for Birmingham flag bearer Ockenden, drawing the modest champion level with Kookaburras legend Mark Knowles on the Commonwealth medal tally.

In four campaigns he hasn't lost a game and Paris's 2024 Olympics are firmly on the radar as the 35-year-old eyes the one thing missing from his resume.

'I'm really proud to have that, and it's a huge part of our history, but it's not about my fourth, it's about the team now winning the gold medal,' Ockenden said.

'I'll try and keep going, make the squad (for Paris), I'm feeling really good and fit.

'I have no idea (about the next Commonwealth Games), it seems like such a long way away ... it's in Victoria, Geelong, I'm a big Cats (AFL) man, so it'd be nice.'

A potentially testing examination between the Tokyo Olympic silver and bronze medallists quickly became a celebration of Australia's hockey entertainers on the Games' final day.

They exploded out of their semi-final slumber - a 3-2 defeat of England on Saturday being a rare vulnerable moment - to score five first-half goals and all-but order team staff to place the beers on ice.

It was an emphatic reminder of their Commonwealth dominance. They are 41-1 since the sport entered in 1998, with an overall scoreline in those seven finals of 33-2.

The brilliance of one of the country's most underrated teams was best summed up by their second goal.

Daniel Beale showed dexterity to pluck possession from an Indian stick on the edge of Australia's defensive circle.

Seconds later he'd received the ball back 70 metres downfield from an outrageous, no-look Josh