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Trying to give as much freedom and clarity to players about new aggressive batting approach: Rohit Sharma
The India captain Rohit Sharma spoke about how the squad is preparing mentally and physically for the upcoming challenges of the Asia Cup and the T20 World Cup with the emphasis on complete transparency and giving players a clear message.
CWG 2022: Bhavina, Sonal win historic maiden gold, bronze in para table tennis
In the final played late on Saturday night, the 35-year-old Bhavina defeated the Nigerian 12-10, 11-2, 11-9 in the final in which her opponent put up some fight in the first game before her challenge fizzled away. India also won the bronze medal in Class 3-5 competitions as Sonal Patel defeated England's Bailey 11-5, 11-2, 11-3 in the playoff for the third place.
CWG 2022: Wrestlers Dahiya, Phogat, Naveen win gold as India surge up in the table
Fellow wrestlers Pooja Sihag and Pooja Gehlot bagged bronze medals in their respective weight divisions while in lawn bowls, the Men's Fours, who emulated their women counterparts by reaching the final, had to be satisfied with a silver medal as they lost to Northern Ireland in the summit clash.
CWG 2022: Sagar Ahlawat reaches super heavyweight final
Sagar joined reigning World Champion Nikhat Zareen, Asian champion Amit Panghal and Nitu as the Indian boxers to make it to the finals of their respective weight divisions. With Sagar reaching the final, India has a chance of winning four gold medals, one more than the three they earned in Gold Coast, Australia four years ago.
CWG 2022: Priyanka, Sable race ahead to historic silver medals in Birmingham
Both clinched India's first medals in the 10km race walk and 3000m steeplechase respectively and also set new national records in the process, further establishing themselves as India's best medal hopes in the next few years. Priyanka shattered the three-year-old national record to clinch the silver medal in the women's 10km race walk at the Alexander Stadium, on Saturday morning.
CWG 2022: PV Sindhu enters semis with win over Goh Jin Wei
Sindhu, a two-time Olympic medallist, beat Goh Jin Wei 19-21, 21-14, 21-18 at the National Exhibition Centre for her second win over the Malaysian at CWG 2022. She had beaten the Youth Olympic Games champion 22-20, 21-17 in India's mixed team final earlier in the week. Former world champion Sindhu started the match strongly but Goh Jin Wei, seeded sixth, went into the break trailing by just two points.
CWG 2022, Cricket: India through to final; defeat England by four runs in a thrilling semifinal
India will now face either Australia or New Zealand from the second semi-final, to be held later on Saturday, for the gold medal match in the final on Sunday while England now enter the bronze medal match scheduled for the same day. Just like India, England were at 113-3 in 14 overs, needing 48 runs off the last 30 balls. Amy Jones hit two fours in Shafali Verma's part-time off-spin to take 15 runs off the 16th over.
Boxers Nitu, Amit Panghal reach finals to maintain hopes of rich medal haul
Nitu was in superb form and pummelled Canada's Priyanka Dhillon into submission in their semifinal of the women's Minimum-weight (over 45-48kg) contest, winning the match when the referee stopped the contest with the opponent totally outclassed. Amit Panghal scored a dominating 5-0 win on points against Patrick Chinyemba of Zambia in the semifinal bout in the Men's Flyweight (over 48-51kg) division.
India's Priyanka Goswami wins silver in race walk, shatters national record
Tokyo Olympian Priyanka clocked 43:38.82, a new Indian national record, to claim her podium place. Khushbir Kaur, with 44:33.5, had held the NR since 2017. The Indian improved her previous personal best of 48:30.35 by almost five minutes to win the medal. Priyanka's medal is India's third in the athletics event of CWG 2022 after Tejaswin Shankar (bronze in high jump) and M Sreeshankar (silver in long jump).
CWG 2022, athletics: India's Avinash Sable wins silver in steeplechase, denies Kenya podium clean sweep
Kenya's Abraham Kibiwot, the 2018 Gold Coast silver medallist and one of the leading runners this year, narrowly edged the Indian by 0.05 seconds to win the gold medal. World junior champion Amos Serem, also from Kenya, took the bronze 8:16.83. Kenyan Olympic and two-time world champion Conseslus Kipruto finished sixth in 8:34.96.
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