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

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. 

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.

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. 

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. 

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. 

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. 

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. 

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!

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.

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. 

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.

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

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. 

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.  

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. 

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. 

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.

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. 

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. 

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. 

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. 

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. 

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). 

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. 

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.