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Indian women’s hockey team beat Japan 2-1 to win Bronze medal at Asian Games
For their impressive performance and the podium finish, Hockey India announced a prize of R 3 Lakh to each player of the Indian Women's Hockey Team and R 1.50 Lakh to each support staff.
Men’s ODI WC: Stoinis is still touch and go; will take a call on his participation after how he goes today, says Cummins
Stoinis has not played a competitive match since the ODI series opener against India at Mohali last month due to a hamstring niggle. “We will announce our team tomorrow at the toss. Stoinis is still touch and go; he will have a run this afternoon. Probably he’s up against it; he's got to jump through a few hoops and we'll see how he does today and take a call,” said Cummins in the pre-match press conference.
Asian Games: Satwik-Chirag win first-ever gold for India in badminton
The Indian pair Satwiksairaj Rankireddy and Chirag Shetty also became the first Indian men's doubles pair to win a gold medal when they defeated the Republic of Korea pair Choi Solgyu and Kim Wonho in straight games, 21-18, 21-16 to herald a new era for Indian badminton.
Asian Games: India crosses historic 100-medal mark for first time as women's kabaddi team grabs gold
India's 100th medal was a gold won by the women's kabaddi team that defeated Chinese Taipei 26-25 in the final in Hangzhou. India's 100 medals in Hangzhou include 25 gold, 35 silver and 40 bronze. Of these 100 medals, male participants have won 47 medals (12-17-18) while women have claimed 44 (9-18-19) while seven have come in mixed events.
Asian Games: Hockey gold, archery silver, Prannoy's bronze India race to 95 medals, 100 beckons
On the penultimate day of competitions, India claimed one gold, two silver and bronze medals. The men's recurve archery team redeemed itself after disappointing outings in individual events to claim a silver while the women's team bounced back from a defeat to Korea to overcome Vietnam in windy and rainy conditions to win a bronze.
Men's ODI WC: Pakistan beat Netherlands by 81 runs to begin campaign on winning note
Rauf was the pick of Pakistan bowlers with his 3/43, while Hasan Ali scalped two as the Babar Azam-led side bundled out the Netherlands for 205 in their run-chase of 286 run target. Putting into bat first, Pakistan were all out for 286 in 49 overs. Their innings was powered by 120 runs fourth-wicket partnership between Mohammad Rizwan and Saud Shakeel.
Asian Games: Kiran Bishnoi, Aman Sehrawat clinch bronze; Bajrang misses out on medal in wrestling
Earlier, Kiran beat Japan's Nodoka Yamamoto before going down against Zhamila Bakbergenova in the semifinal.
Men’s ODI WC: Captain is here to do the job with the team; need to support his vision, says Dravid
Now, nearly 16 years later, Dravid is back with the Indian team in the run-up to an ODI World Cup, this time as the head coach of the Rohit Sharma-led side, where he stated that his role, along with other members in the support staff, is for supporting the skipper’s vision of achieving success in the campaign starting from Sunday against Australia.
Asian Games: Early ticket to Paris means we can implement our own programme and plan, says coach Craig Fulton
"I am not surprised that we won the gold and qualified for the Olympic Games in Paris. We have played well and had good wins. The semifinal (win over South Korea) was a tough match," the coach after his team defeated Japan 5-1 in the final to win their fourth-ever gold medal in the Asian Games.
Men’s ODI WC: Medical team hasn’t ruled out Gill yet, will see how he feels day after tomorrow, says Dravid
On Thursday afternoon, Gill didn’t attend India’s practice session at the stadium and it emerged on Friday that the right-handed batter is under the weather possibly due to high fever. Gill is the leading run-getter in ODIs this year, scoring 1230 runs in 20 games.
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