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India at CWG 2022 Day 9 wrap: Wrestlers full Perfect 12, Bhavinben wins historic gold

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It was a historic day for India on the Commonwealth Games on day 9 as 14 medals have been added to the tally.

The Indian wrestling contingent made it an ideal 12 with the likes of Naveen, Vinesh Phogat and Ravi Kumar Dahiya profitable gold for the nation. Avinash Sable secured a historic silver within the males’s steeple chase and Bhavinaben Patel received gold in para desk tennis.

The Indian girls’s cricket workforce and males’s hockey workforce reached the finals of their respective competitions.

However, a giant disappointment was seeing Manika Batra’s marketing campaign finish and not using a medal.

WRESTLING: 6 GOLD MEDALS, PERFECT 12

India accomplished a Perfect 12 in wrestling as the favored sport continued to be a giant contributor to the nation’s medal tally on the Commonwealth Games.

All 12 Indian wrestlers received medals within the Commonwealth Games 2018 at Gold Coast and the wrestling workforce has been in a position to repeat the feat.

PARA TABLE TENNIS: BHAVINABEN WINS GOLD, SONALBEN FINISHED WITH BRONZE

Paralympic Silver medalist Bhavinaben Hasmukhbhai Patel turned the primary Para TT participant to win a gold medal on the Commonwealth Games after she defeated Nigeria’s Ifechukwude Ikpeoyi by 12-10, 11-2, 11-9 within the girls’s single class 3-5 closing in Birmingham on Saturday.

On the opposite hand, Sonalben Patel received the bronze medal in Para Table Tennis within the Women’s Singles Classes 3-5 class.

LAWN BOWLS: MEN’S TEAM SECURE SILVER

India secured its second medal within the Lawn Bowls competitors on the Commonwealth Games 2022 after the lads’s fours workforce clinched the silver medal after dropping to Northern Ireland within the males’s fours closing 5-18 in Birmingham on Saturday.

The males’s fours workforce of Sunil Bahadur, Navneet Singh, Chandan Kumar Singh and Dinesh Kumar misplaced within the closing at Victoria Park at Royal Leamington Spa.

STEEPLE CHASE: SABLE MAKES HISTORY

Avinash Sable broke the 3000m Steeplechase National Record for the file ninth time, clocking 8:11.20 to win India’s first-ever Steeplechase Medal on the Commonwealth Games 2022 in Birmingham, UK, on Saturday.

Avinash Sable clocked 8:11.20 to raised the earlier NR of 8:12.48, created on the Rabat Diamond League earlier this yr.

TABLE TENNIS: TRIPLE DELIGHT FOR SHARATH KAMAL

Sharath Kamal made it to the finals of the doubles occasions after main the lads’s workforce to Gold within the Commonwealth Games 2022.

Kamal has received 11 matches on the bounce after profitable the lads’s Gold in Birmingham. The 40-year-old is barely furthering his legacy, reaching the semi-finals of the singles occasion as properly.

BOXING: SAGAR TO COMPETE FOR GOLD

As many as 4 Indian boxers will battle for Gold on Sunday, August 7 whereas 3 Indian pugilists completed with bronze medals on Saturday on the Commonwealth Games 2022 in Birmingham.

Sagar Ahlawat joined Nikhat Zareen, Nitu Ganghas and Amit Panghal within the hunt for a gold medal whereas Jaismine, Roht Tokas and Mohammed Hussamuddin misplaced their semi-final bouts in Birmingham.

CRICKET: WOMEN’S TEAM CREATE HISTORY

The Indian girls’s cricket workforce created historical past on the ongoing Commonwealth Games 2022 as they defeated England within the semi-final to safe a berth within the closing and the nation’s first-ever medal within the sport on the Games.

Smriti Mandhana and Sneh Rana have been the celebs for the Indian workforce on Saturday.

BADMINTON: SEN, SRIKANTH AND SINDHU IN SEMIS

Indian ace shuttlers Lakshya Sen and Kidambi Srikanth joined PV Sindhu within the semifinals of badminton on the Commonwealth Games on Saturday. However, Aakarshi Kashyap’s run got here to an finish within the quarterfinals.

Sen, who has exhibited good kind all through the length of the video games, defeated Mauritius’ Julien Georges Paul 21-12 21-11 in convincing trend to guide his place within the closing 4 of the lads’s singles competitors.

For Sindhu and Srikanth, the win did not come simple and the Indian duo have been pressured to work exhausting to get the win and progress to the semifinals on Saturday.

HOCKEY: INDIA REACH FINAL

The Indian males’s workforce secured their passage into the ultimate of hockey on the Commonwealth Games 2022 on Saturday with a 3-2 win over South Africa.

Abhishek, Mandeep Singh and Jugraj Singh have been on the scoresheet for India, whereas Mustapha Cassiem and Ryan Julius received the targets for South Africa.

India will play the ultimate on eighth August.

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