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CWG 2022: Lawn bowls, TT gold light up the day for India
The two gold and one silver on the day took India's tally at Birmingham to 12 medals -- five gold, four silver and three bronze medals to move up to sixth in the medals table. The Women's Fours of Lovely Choubey, Pinki, Nayan Moni Saikia and Rupa Rani Tirkey made history for India by bagging a maiden gold medal in lawn bowls, beating South Africa 17-10 in a well-contested final, banking on their positive sprits, hard work, determination and steely nerves to script the best day for the county in this little-known sport.
44th Chess Olympiad: Gukesh stuns former World Championship challenger Shirov as India B clinch fifth win in row
It was Gukesh's fifth victory on the trot in this event. Incidentally, after this victory, he overtakes Vidit Gujrathi in live ratings to be the third highest rated player in India after Viswanathan Anand and Pentala Harikrishna. "I got a fine position after an error from him and slowly outplayed him. It's a pleasure to play a player of Shirov's calibre and to beat him is special," Gukesh said after the match.
3rd T20I: India win toss, opt to bowl against West Indies
"We will field first, not because of the conditions, but this is what we wanted to do as a team. We want to capitalize on the powerplay, this is a small ground, a six hitting ground, but the average score isn't high so we need to keep that in mind as well. The guys have been given the chance to express themselves, so the high-risk shots come into play, but we do understand that," said Rohit at the toss.
Indian men's table tennis team defeats Singapore 3-1 to clinch gold medal in CWG 2022
Achanta Sharath Kamal lost for the first time in the tournament but Harmeet Desai and G Sathiyan first won doubles and then registered victories in their respective singles matches as India beat Singapore 3-1 in the CWG 2022 to defend their gold medal from 2018. Earlier in the match G Stahiyan defeated Koen Pang 12-10, 7-11, 11-7, 11-4 to make it 2-1 in the favour of India.
CWG 2022, Weightlifting: No hat-trick of medals for Punam Yadav after 'heart-breaking' finish in 76kg final
Punam, won the bronze medal in the 2014 CWG in the women's 63kg category and gold medal in the 69kg category in the 2018 at Gold Coast, started on a disappointing note as she failed to lift 95kg in her first attempt. However, she recovered well to successfully lift the same weight in her second attempt and then went on to equal her personal best and national record of 98kg in snatch in the final attempt to keep herself in a medal hunt.
CWG 2022: India's women's fours team clinches historic gold medal in lawn bowls
It was an even start to the final, as India took the lead after the first end but South Africa went ahead after the second. Thereafter, in-form Indian surged ahead to a 8-2 lead by the seventh end. But, it could not score a single point over the next four ends as South Africa roared back into contention, levelling the scores 8-8 after the 10th end.
Asia Cup 2022 schedule announced, India to face Pakistan on August 28
The schedule for the 15th edition of the Asian tournament was officially announced by Jay Shah, chairman of the Asian Cricket Council (ACC) on Twitter. Ten out of the thirteen games including the final on September 11 are set to be played in Dubai, with the rest to take place in Sharjah. UAE, Kuwait, Singapore and Hong Kong will play a qualifying round with the winner joining India, Pakistan, Sri Lanka, Afghanistan and Bangladesh in the main tournament.
Howzat! Three Arshdeeps on the field in T20I match against West Indies
Apparently the lanky India pace bowler landed in St. Kitts from Trinidad with more than a handful of his jerseys, even as the luggage of several other teammates got delayed. Arshdeep had to part with a couple of his jerseys, which saw Suryakumar Yadav wearing the left-arm pacer's shirt when he came out to bat. Later pacer Avesh Singh too came out wearing the jersey bearing Arshdeep's name.
Citi Open: Venus Williams loses to Rebecca Marino on her return to singles
The seven-time Grand Slam singles champion Venus lost 4-6, 6-1, 6-4 to Rebecca in a 1-hour and 52-minute clash on Monday night. "Just a little rusty. I really put myself in good positions in the third set, too. Just trying to shake off some rust. That's just to be expected. All I can do is just play another tournament and play better," said Williams after the match.
India vs West Indies 3rd T20I to also have delayed start to give players time to recover
The third T20I of the engrossing five-match series at St Kitts will start at 9:30pm India time on Tuesday after the second match of the series on Monday began a 11 p.m. IST (earlier scheduled at 8 p.m. IST) due to team luggage arriving into St. Kitts from Trinidad late.
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