CWG 2022: Amit Panghal, Jasmine enter semi-finals to make sure 5 medals from ring 

Amit Panghal and Jasmine received their respective bouts to take India’s medal rely in boxing to 5 on the Commonwealth Games right here on Thursday. Panghal ensured a fourth medal from the boxing ring after profitable his flyweight (48-51 kg) quarter-final towards Scotland’s Lennon Mulligan.

Later within the day, Jasmine beat New Zealand’s Troy Garton by a 4-1 break up verdict within the girls’s light-weight (60kg) quarter-final.

In the boys’s bout, it was an unanimous verdict in favour of the Indian southpaw, who had received a silver medal over the past version in Gold Coast.

The bout wasn’t of nice high quality, however the 26-year-old Indian prevailed over his youthful Scottish opponent, tiring him out along with his strong defence. He gained factors with occasional ferocious counter-attack.

In the primary two rounds, Panghal employed a guard down method to ask Mulligan to go on the offensive however swayed away from his attain with some nimble footwork.

In between, he did land a few left jabs to rattle the 20-year-old Scot, and within the ultimate spherical, unleashed a barrage of ‘one-two’ mixture (a left-jab adopted by a proper cross).

Mulligan, in reality, received a standing rely and by the tip of spherical two the writing was on the wall, and Panghal was assured of a second CWG medal.

Nikhat Zareen (50kg), Nitu Ganghas (48kg) and Mohd Hussamudin (57kg) have additionally reached the semifinal stage to be assured of medals of their respective classes.