Asian Games 2023 Highlights Day 1: Chhetri and Co. march forward, India bag silver in shooting, rowing

Asian Games 2023 Live Updates: MEDAL NO.3 FOR INDIA!

Babu Lal Yadav and Lekh Ram win bronze medal in men's pair with 6:50:41 finish!

Hong Kong, China finish first, while Uzbekistan takes silver.

Asian Games 2023 Live Updates: India beat Bangladesh by 8 wickets to enter women's cricket final! A third medal is confirmed on Day 1.

Mandhana's side chased down a paltry 52-run target in just 8.2 overs

India's Aswathi Padinjarayil Babu, Mrunmayee Nilesh Salgaonkar, Priya Devi Thangjam, and Rukmani finish fifth in the women's four final, with timings of 7:12:40 -- 30.37 seconds slower than gold medal winners China, who add a sixth gold to their overall tally.

Ashi Chouksey reacts after silver medal in women's 10m air rifle team event.

“It's a very proud moment for us that it's the first medal for the Asian Games. We were prepared and confident that we would get a medal. This is my first medal for the Air Rifle. I am happy for the medal”

Asian Games 2023 Live Updates: China asserting dominance early on Day 1 – but it shouldn't come as a surprise.

China swept the rowing field with four golds so far, while winning another in Wushu.

They are the only country with gold medals so far.

Asian Games 2023 Live Updates: Satnam Singh and Parminder Singh finish sixth in their men's doubles sculls final with 6:40.90 timings.

China's Zhiyu Liu and Liang Zhang win gold medal.

Asian Games 2023 Live Updates: Manika Batra faces defeat in her match against lower-ranked Thailand's Orawan Paranang in women's team event. The final scoreline was 11-7, 11-1, 13-11. While Batra displayed a strong performance in the final set,4 Orawan's skill and strength ultimately proved insurmountable.

Asian Games 2023 Live Updates: India opened its medal tally with a silver in women's 10m air rifle (Ramita, Mehuli Ghosh and Ashi Chouksey), and immediately added another silver medal in men's lightweight double sculls (Arjun Lal Jat and Arvind).

Kiran and Anshika Bharti finished 9th in Women's Lightweight Double Sculls, while Suraj Singh Mayanglambam and Anjul Namdeo finished 5th and 6th respectively in men's Changuan (wushu).

Asian Games 2023 Live Updates: A tough outing for Bangladesh, this. A few days after Indian men's team bowled Sri Lanka out for 50, the women's team gives another subcontinental neighbour a similar treatment, albeit in T20Is.

Bangladesh are bowled out for 51 in 17.5 overs

Asian Games 2023 Live Updates: In the men's Changquan final, India's wushu athletes, Suraj Singh Mayanglambam and Anjul Namdeo, secured commendable fifth and sixth place finishes, respectively.

Asian Games 2023 Live Updates: India women's team takes on Thailand in the round-of-16 game.

Manika Batra faces Orawan Paranang in the first match.

Asian Games 2023 Live Updates: Bangladesh are in tatters at the moment. India have comprehensively run through the Bangladesh batting order, leaving them reeling at 39/8 in 13 overs.

Pooja Vastrakar finishes with figures of 4/17

ANOTHER MEDAL! This time, it's silver again!

Arjun Lal Jat and Arvind Singh defy odds to clinch silver medal in Lightweight Men's Double Sculls with 6:28:18 timings. China takes gold, being 5:02s faster than the Indian pair

While Ramita and Mehuli have qualified for individual finals, the women's 10m air rifle team event – which ran parallelly – sees India win silver medal!

The trio of Ramita, Mehuli and Chouksey have scored 1886, taking them to second spot – just behind China (1896.6)

Asian Games 2023 Live Updates: 2 Indians in top-8!

Ramita (2nd) and Mehuli Ghosh (5th) have all but qualified for the final. But there's something bigger coming up…

Asian Games 2023 Live Updates: WHAT A FINISH FOR RAMITA!

The Indian shooter has finished her series with a brilliant 631.9, and is currently second with all of the top-5 shooters completing their series so far.

Asian Games 2023 Live Updates: Men's 25m Rapid Fire pistol qualifying event begins. Six shooters will qualify for the final.

Adarsh Singh, Anish, and Vijayveer Sidhu present Indian challenge

Asian Games 2023 Live Updates: India make dominant start!

Pooja Vastrakar adds another wicket while Titas Sadhu also picks one as Bangladesh are in all sorts of trouble. Sobhana Mostary departs on 8, while Shorna Akter goes for a duck.

21/4 in 6 overs

Asian Games 2023 Live Updates: India's Dev makes a good comeback in men's foil individual Round of Pool 3, beating Irag's Saleem Ghaith 5-4 in a stiff tie. He had faced a 0-5 loss to Vietnam's Van Hai Nguyen in the first game

Asian Games 2023 Live Updates: Mehuli jumps to third, Ramita fifth now. Standings so far (average score)

3: Mehuli Ghosh - 10.515

5: Ramita - 10.513

26: Ashi Chouksey - 10.409

Asian Games 2023 Live Updates: India's Kiran and Anshika Bharti finish 9th in Women's Lightweight Women's Double Sculls, with timings of 7:40:84 -- 13.93s slower than Thailand, who were top (7th overall) in Final B.

Asian Games 2023 Live Updates: In a classic display of dominance, Team China kicks off the Asian Games medals tally in customary fashion, lighting up the competition with a splendid gold in the women's lightweight doubles sculls. Zou Jiaqi and Qiu Xiuping left their competitors in the dust, crossing the finish line a staggering 9.71 seconds ahead of the pack, proving once again that they are forces to be reckoned with on the water.

China sets the tone for the Games with an electrifying performance!

Asian Games 2023 Live Updates: Standings so far (average shots)

4th - Ramita - 10.514

7th - Mehuli Ghosh - 10.503

26th - Ashi Chouksey - 10.397

Asian Games 2023 Live Updates: WHAT A START FOR INDIA!

Pooja Vastrakar picks two wickets in the first over, dismissing both openers -- Shathi Rani and Shamima Sultana -- for a first-ball duck!

Asian Games 2023 Live Updates: WOAH!

Thailand's Chanittha Sastwej is the first to finish all of her series in the women's 10m air rifle event. She finishes with total score of 625.1. Interestingly, she completes the qualifying event with 45 minutes still left in the prescribed time!