Commonwealth Games 2022 Highlights Day 8: Medal rush in wrestling; India face shootout heartbreak in women's hockey SF

CWG 2022 Highlights Day 8: Bajrang Punia has won his second consecutive Commonwealth Games gold. Sakshi Malik and Deepak Punia then made it three gold medals for India in wrestling before which Anshu Malik had won silver. Divya Kakran won bronze to make it five wrestling medals for India. The Indian women's hockey team, meanwhile, faced a shootout defeat to Australia.

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CWG 2022 Highlights Day 8: Bajrang Punia has won his second consecutive Commonwealth Games gold by winning the 65kg final. Later, Sakshi Malik pinner her opponent to win the women's 62kg title and secure India's second wrestling gold. Deepak Punia then made it three for India by beating Pakistan's reigning gold medallist Muhammad Inam in the men's 86kg final. Meanwhile, Anshu Malik lost the women's 57kg final and settled for silver. Divya Kakran (68kg) and Mohit Grewal (125kg) have both won bronze, thus taking India's total medal tally in wrestling to six. Sprint star Hima Das will feature in the Women's 200m semifinal. The Indian women's hockey team faced a heartbreak in shootout as they conceded a 0-3 defeat to Australia after the match ended 1-1 at normal time. In badminton, Kidambi Srikanth and PV Sindhu completed easy wins. ...Read More

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• 6 Aug 2022, 02:35:09 AM IST

  CWG 2022 Live: Hockey - ‘Elementary mistake’

  “This cannot be happening in a CWG semi-final. This is an elementary mistake,” says a livid Viren Rasquinha on the refereeing blunder

• 6 Aug 2022, 02:32:11 AM IST

  CWG 2022: Questions will be asked…

  There will be strong reactions on the standards of refereeing in the semi-final. How could the referee allow Australia to take the penalty without the clock being started? That would be the question on everyone's minds!

  Regardless, India still have a medal match to play, as they go out on Sunday for the bronze medal tie. A spirited performance from Savita Punia's side!

• 6 Aug 2022, 02:26:25 AM IST

  CWG 2022 Live Updates: AUS win 3-0

  And that's it! Australia through to final

• 6 Aug 2022, 02:24:24 AM IST

  CWG 2022 Live Score: AUS lead 2-0

  Not good for India, this. India have failed to convert their second penalty as well.

• 6 Aug 2022, 02:22:51 AM IST

  CWG 2022 Live Score: AUS 1-0 in penalty shootout

  Lalremsiami fails to score. Australia lead

• 6 Aug 2022, 02:22:14 AM IST

  CWG 2022 Live: Hockey - DRAMA!

  Well, that's bad. Savita Punia had saved the penalty but referee asks Australia to retake because the clock hadn't started.

  Australia now score. India are fuming and rightly so

• 6 Aug 2022, 02:17:24 AM IST

  CWG 2022 Live: Hockey - IT'S A SHOOT-OUT!

  What a fightback from India. The Indian team did miss a fair few chances but Vandana Katariya's goal in the fourth quarter, coupled with some terrific defending throughout the game has forced this game to a shoot-out. 

  No better goalkeeper than Savita Punia for moments like these

• 6 Aug 2022, 02:14:32 AM IST

  CWG 2022 Live Updates: Hockey - Penalty corner!

  India concede a penalty corner and it has been saved! However, the referee has awarded another PC to Australia but the Aussies believe it should be a penalty stroke

  Update: It stays a penalty corner. INDIA SAVES IT AGAIN!

• 6 Aug 2022, 02:13:23 AM IST

  CWG 2022 Live: Hockey - All action in India's half in final minutes

  India have been in a similar position not too long ago, when they were taking on Spain in a do-or-die game in the Hockey World Cup. Then, Spain had scored in the final minute to clinch a quarterfinal spot. 

  Can India hold the Aussies here?

• 6 Aug 2022, 02:10:37 AM IST

  CWG 2022 Live Updates: Hockey - Less than five minutes remaining

  If the scoreline remains 1-1, the result will be decided via shootout. This game is poised for a thrilling finish. Australia are currently on all-out attack; clearly, they don't want to go to shootout here. India need to defend their hearts out 

• 6 Aug 2022, 02:06:47 AM IST

  CWG Live Updates: Hockey - India fails to convert PC

  A fifth miss for India. Katariya's shot is saved by the Aussie goalkeeper. We are seven minutes away from the end of fourth quarter

• 6 Aug 2022, 02:01:21 AM IST

  CWG Live: Hockey - GOAL!

  FINALLY! India score the equalizer in the fourth quarter. Who else but Vandana Katariya! Sushila Chanu drafts a shot straight towards the goal and Katariya, who was standing right of the goal, deflects it in superbly. 

• 6 Aug 2022, 01:56:27 AM IST

  CWG 2022 Live Score: Hockey - IND 0-1 AUS

  India save four penalty corners in a row during the end of the third quarter. Lalremsiami in particular with some brilliant defensive performance. India still in search for their opening goal as we move to the final 15 minutes

• 6 Aug 2022, 01:52:36 AM IST

  CWG 2022 Live: Hockey - Save-ita Poonia!

  The Indian captain continues to stand like a wall in front of the goal. A brilliant point-blank save from Savita to deny Australia a two-gola lead. The Aussies are growing into the game in the third quarter now

• 6 Aug 2022, 01:44:58 AM IST

  CWG 2022 Live Updates: Hockey - India on attack

  Australia haven't been pressed on like this in any of their previous games at the Commonwealth Games 2022 so far. However, Australia have also not conceded in this edition, and that remains the same in this game too (so far). A fighting display for India but they need to convert chances

• 6 Aug 2022, 01:38:03 AM IST

  CWG 2022 Live: Hockey - 3rd quarter begins

  The third quarter in the hockey semi-final between India and Australia begins. India are trailing 0-1

• 6 Aug 2022, 01:35:26 AM IST

  Commonwealth Games 2022 Live: Squash

  The pair of Dipika Pallikal and Saurav Ghosal will take on Australia's Rachael Grinham/Alexander Zac in the mixed doubles quarter-final

• 6 Aug 2022, 01:27:56 AM IST

  CWG 2022 Live Updates: Hockey - AUS 1-0 IND at halftime

  Grenier's goal remains the sole difference between both sides at the end of the first 30 minutes. India need to be more clinical in their chances

• 6 Aug 2022, 01:24:39 AM IST

  CWG 2022 Live: Hockey - India fail to convert penalty corner

  India are awarded a penalty corner - their fourth in the match – towards the closing stages of the second quarter; however, the side's inability to convert them comes to fore again. A chance goes begging

• 6 Aug 2022, 01:21:17 AM IST

  CWG 2022 Live Updates: Table Tennis: Sathiyan, Sharath Kamal, Sanil win

  While Sathiyan won 4-2 against Australia's Nicholas Lum, Sanil Shetty registered a victory by similar scoreline against Nigeria's Bode Abiodun. Sharath Kamal, meanwhile, also had the same scoreline win against Nigeria's Olajide Omotayo - all in RO16

• 6 Aug 2022, 01:17:21 AM IST

  CWG 2022 Live: Women's hockey - India trail 0-1

  Australia have taken an early lead in the first quarter. Rebecca Greiner gives them the lead

• 6 Aug 2022, 01:07:07 AM IST

  Commonwealth Games 2022 Live: Manika Batra knocked out!!!

  The defending champion loses 4-0 to Jian Zeng of Singapore. The match ends 12-10, 11-9, 11-4, 11-7 in favour of the Singaporean and Manika's singles journey ends in the quarterfinals. 

• 6 Aug 2022, 12:58:11 AM IST

  CWG 2022 Live: Hima Das misses out of 200m finals

  Hima Das has run the 200m semis and finishes third by just a photo finish. The top two qualify and then the next two fastest advance to the final. Hima has managed a time of 23.42 seconds. There were already two others in the first heat who ran faster than her and so that could be the end of the campaign for Hima in 200m. 

• 6 Aug 2022, 12:44:50 AM IST

  Commonwealth Games live: Hockey - India vs Australia semifinals

  We shift focus to the Univesity of Birmingham hockey field now where the India women's team take on the mighty Australia. India, of course, had stunned Australia in the Olympics on their way to the fourth-place finish. 

• 6 Aug 2022, 12:26:43 AM IST

  CWG Live: BRONZE MEDAL FOR MOHIT GREWAL!

  Mohit pins Johnson and it's a victory by fall. Quite a move that and he wins bronze. Every Indian who has taken the mat today has won a medal now. 

• 6 Aug 2022, 12:24:34 AM IST

  CWG 2022 Live: Mohit Grewal's bronze medal match

  It is the 125kg bronze medal match and Mohit Grewal is up against Jamaica's Aaron Johnson. This for India's sixth wrestling medal of the day. 

• 6 Aug 2022, 12:08:47 AM IST

  Commonwealth Games 2022 Live: Badminton - Lakshya Sen, Aakarshi Kashyap win in singles

  Lakshya Sen was tested a bit in his second game against Australia's Yian Xiang Lin, eventually winning 21-9, 21-16. Meanwhile, Aakarshi Kashyap beat Eva Kattirzi of Cyprus 21-2, 21-7.

• 5 Aug 2022, 11:59:31 PM IST

  CWG Live: Table tennis - Manika Batra 1-0 down in women's singles

  It has been quite brilliant so far from the defending champion in the second game and she leads 3-1. Her opponent Jian Zeng of Singapore had taken the first game 12-10. She was an integral part of the Singapore side that won the women's team gold medal. 

• 5 Aug 2022, 11:48:25 PM IST

  Commonwealth Games 2022 Live: Wrestling - BRONZE FOR DIVYA KAKRAN!

  A blink and you miss kind of bout. She wraps her arm around her opponent took her down by the side and then gets a pin. That bout lasted just 26 seconds and India's medal haul from wrestling increases to five. 

• 5 Aug 2022, 11:47:21 PM IST

  CWG 2022 Live: Table Tennis - Sreeja Akula through to semis!

  Sreeja Akula is through to the women's singles semi-finals after quite an epic contest with Canada's Mo Zhang. She finally wins 4-3 (9-11, 11-4, 6-11, 9-11, 11-5, 11-4, 11-8). Quite an extraordinary fight back after being 3-1 down. 

• 5 Aug 2022, 11:36:30 PM IST

  Commonwealth Games live: DEEPAK PUNIA WINS GOLD!

  It is the Indian that comes out on top. Hardly any takedowns with both wrestlers prioritising defence for much of the bout. When Inam finally threw caution to the wind and lunged for Deepak's legs, the Indian managed to get on top of him and waited out the clock after that. He wins 3-0 and takes his first CWG Gold. 

• 5 Aug 2022, 11:31:16 PM IST

  CWG Live: Wrestling - Deepak Punia leading 2-0 at the break

  Inam gets a passivity warning against him and Deepak then pushes his opponent out to take a 2-0 lead. It's a pretty cagey affair so far. 

• 5 Aug 2022, 11:28:08 PM IST

  CWG 2022 Live: Wrestling - India vs Pakistan bout in men's 86kg final

  Deepak Punia walks out for the final and his opponent is Pakistan's Muhammad Inam. As if there wasn't enough spice in this bout already! Inam had won gold in 2010 and in 2018. Here we go!

• 5 Aug 2022, 11:26:32 PM IST

  Commonwealth Games 2022 Live: Lawn bowls - MEDAL ASSURED!

  Well would you believe it! The Indian men's fours team of Sunil Bahadur, Navneet Singh, Chandan Kumar and skip Dinesh Kumar have actually gone and beaten England. India have won a second medal in lawn bowls.

• 5 Aug 2022, 11:21:33 PM IST

  CWG 2022 Live: Lawn Bowls - India men trail by just 2 points!

  India are facing England in the men's fours semi-finals and are trailing 10-12 after 14 ends. Just one end left and this is not an impossible deficit to overhaul. If India win this, that is a second lawn bowls confirmed. 

• 5 Aug 2022, 11:09:12 PM IST

  CWG Live: Table tennis - Harmeet- Sanil knocked out

  The Indian pair of Harmeet Desai and Sanil Shetty have not had a good outing though. They have lost 0-3 (10-12, 7-11, 7-11) to Singapore's Clarence Chew Zhe Yu and Shao Feng Ethan Poh.

• 5 Aug 2022, 11:08:24 PM IST

  Commonwealth Games 2022 Live: Table tennis - Sathiyan-Sharath through to semis!

  A 3-0 win for the Indian pair, they beat England's Tom Jarvis and Sam Walker 11-6, 11-8 and 11-4.

• 5 Aug 2022, 11:02:59 PM IST

  CWG 2022 Live: Squash - Deepika Pallikal Karthim-Joshana Chinappa knocked out!

  This is a bit of a shock, Deepika and Joshana lose 0-2 to the Malaysian pair and are knocked out in the women's doubles quarter-finals. 

• 5 Aug 2022, 10:54:42 PM IST

  CWG Live: SAKSHI MALIK WINS GOLD!

  Well how about that! Sakshi Malik has pinned her opponent and taken gold! She was down all the way Sakshi but then suddenly manages to get a takedown and then a reversal. She then actually pins her opponent and wins the bout itself, almost like how she did in Rio de Janeiro in 2016 when she extraordinarily won bronze. That was in the last minute, this one wasn't, there was a lot of time left in the bout and she wins gold here. What a moment for Sakshi Malik, she was in tears in 2018 when she could only win bronze but here she is now, with the 62kg CWG title.  

• 5 Aug 2022, 10:53:38 PM IST

  Commonwealth Games 2022 Live: Sakshi trails 4-0 at interval

  The Canadian takes two points early with a fireman's hold and then gets a single leg takedown for another two points towards the end of that round. Sakshi with her work cut out as the wrestlers take the mat again. 

• 5 Aug 2022, 10:50:41 PM IST

  CWG Live: Wrestling - Here is Sakshi Malik!

  She is up against Ana Godinez Gonzalez of Canada in the women's 62kg final. Sakshi was left in tears when she could get only bronze at the last CWG, which of course came after her historic bronze at the Rio Olympics and so she will be determined to go all out this time. 

• 5 Aug 2022, 10:49:00 PM IST

  Commonwealth Games 2022 Live: Squash - Deepika Pallikal Karthik and Joshana Chinappa

  The experienced 2014 gold medal Indian winning pair are up against Malaysia's Ainaa Ampandi and Yiwen Chan in the women's doubles quarter-final.

• 5 Aug 2022, 10:26:41 PM IST

  CWG 2022 Live: Table tennis - Sanil-Harmeet trail 0-2

  Quite a different story for the Indian pair. They are up against Singapore's Clarence Chew Zhe Yu and Shao Feng Ethan Poh and trailing 2-0. 

• 5 Aug 2022, 10:24:25 PM IST

  Commonwealth Games live: Table tennis - Sathiyan-Sharath lead 2-0

  It's medal ceremony time at the wrestling and so we can take a quick peek at what's happening at the table tennis arena. Sharath Kamal and G Sathiyan are back, this time together in the men's doubles quarter-final. They lead England's Tom Jarvis and Sam Walker 2-0. 

• 5 Aug 2022, 10:20:11 PM IST

  CWG 2022 Live: Wrestling - BAJRANG PUNIA WINS GOLD!

  Well McNeil manages a take down out of nowhere almost and takes two points. Bajrang then gets a take down on his own for which he takes two points and restores the four-point lead. Another push out from the Indian and that lead increases to 5 points. Looks like Bajrang will defend his title here. He sits down McNeil to increase his tally to 9 points and that is how it ends. The referee raises her hand for Bajrang, the DJ cues in the dhol music and it's bhangra time in Coventry. BAJRANG PUNIA HAS WON HIS 2ND CONSECUTIVE CWG GOLD. 

• 5 Aug 2022, 10:15:22 PM IST

  CWG Live: Wrestling - Bajrang leading 4-0 at interval

  A lightning fast Bajrang all over McNeil and he gets his first point through his opponent's passivity. Bajrang is just relentless, he gets a takedown to get two points and then pushes his opponent off the circle for another point. At the break, Bajrang leads 4-0. Utterly, utterly dominant. 

• 5 Aug 2022, 10:09:37 PM IST

  Commonwealth Games live: Wrestling - Bajrang Punia's gold medal bout!

  Here is the defending champion and Olympic bronze medallist Bajrang Punia. It was an injury that stopped Bajrang from doing better than bronze in Tokyo but he seems to be firing on all cylinders now. He has been utterly dominant today and he faces Canada's Lachlan McNeil. 

• 5 Aug 2022, 10:06:36 PM IST

  CWG 2022 Live: Table tennis - Sreeja-Reeth through to round of 16

  Just a quick update from the TT tables, Sreeja Akula and Reeth Tennison have defeated Scotland's Rebecca Plaistow and Lucy Elliott 3-0 (11-4, 11-5, 11-2). 

• 5 Aug 2022, 09:51:27 PM IST

  Commonwealth Games live: Wrestling - SILVER FOR ANSHU!

  Well some drama in the end. It turns out that Anshu had thrown in a challenge but it is not upheld. The Indian looks visibly disappointed but this has been an excellent effort from her. Anshu through in a late salvo in the last 10 seconds and reduced the gap to two pooints but the Nigerian succesfully ran down the clock to win 6-4. Adekuoroye has finished with a hat-trick of CWG gold medals, Anshu takes silver in her first Games. 

• 5 Aug 2022, 09:45:06 PM IST

  Commonwealth Games 2022 Live: Wrestling - Anshu trails 0-4

  A takedown after a leg hod towards the end of the first half leads to Adekuoroye increasing her lead to four points. A leg hold early on had helped her take the first two points. Anshu has got a warning from the ref for finger holds and it is quite tight out there. The second half begins.