苏格兰芝华士队9月11日第2次获得了泰国国王杯象球比赛的冠军。他们凭借在加时赛中攻入的一粒金球，最终以6：5击败了泰国穆里斯首都队而成功夺冠。该队上次加冕是在2004年。

    据美联社9月11日报道，大约有1500名观众前来观看这一专门为设在泰国北部南邦的国家大象研究院筹款的慈善比赛。该赛事到今年已经连续举行了5届，比赛地点位于曼谷西南80英里处的华欣（Hua Hin ）附近。这项赛事的场地长为330英尺，宽为200英尺，约相当于马球赛场地的三分之一。每场比赛分上下两个半场，时间均为7分钟，中间休息15分钟。每支球队各出场3头大象。该赛事的女发言人瓦尼达·昆提普马克表示，芝华士队在正常比赛时间内与穆里斯首都队战成平局，在加时赛开始2分钟后，该队攻入了致胜1球。而双方参赛选手均为经验丰富的象球或马球运动员。

    报道说，象球比赛规则的起草者是成立于1982年的世界象球联合会，从那时起该组织每年都在尼泊尔举办象球比赛。另外一个一直举行该类比赛的国家是斯里兰卡。后来泰国也加入了该联合会，并从2001年开始主办国王杯象球赛，其目的是在于为保护该国现存的1500头野生大象和2500头人工饲养的大象募集资金。

    Straddled atop hulking pachyderms and wielding long mallets, the Chivas Regal Scotland team clinched their second King's Cup Elephant Polo title Sunday after scoring a golden goal in overtime to beat Thailand's Mullis Capital, 6-5.

    Some 1,500 spectators came to watch the fifth annual charity game to raise money for Thailand's National Elephant Institute in Lampang, northern Thailand. The tournament was held near Hua Hin, 80 miles southwest of Bangkok.

    The game is played on a field 330 feet by 200 feet, roughly one-third the size of a horse polo field. A game has two seven-minute halves — known as chukkas — with a 15-minute interval. Three elephants form a team.

    Chivas Regal, which won the 2004 tournament, was tied with Mullis Capital after the second chukka and scored the winning goal after two minutes of overtime, said Wanida Khunthipmark, a spokeswoman for the event.

    Players from both teams were experienced elephant or horse polo players, Wanida said.

    The rules of the game were drafted by the World Elephant Polo Association, which was set up in 1982 to stage annual games in Nepal. Since then, elephant polo tournaments have also been played in Sri Lanka.

    Thailand joined the ranks by hosting the inaugural King's Cup tournament in 2001 to raise money for conservation of its 1,500 wild and 2,500 domesticated elephants.