Asian Games 2026 Day 2 Highlights: Elavenil stars with 2 silvers; women's cricket team reaches final; MMA medal assured

In shooting, the women's 10m women's rifle qualification is underway at the General Shooting Gallery in Aichi. At the end of first relay featuring 29 shooters, India's Sonam Maskar finished third with a score of 634.1 and on course to make the final. China's 19-year-old world No.1 Zifei Wand takes the pole with 636.8 followed by South Korea's world No.5 Ban Hyojin (634.9).

Vidarsa Vinod, with 630.4, is ninth and out of contention to make the final. India's medal contender Elavenil Valarivan to shoot in the second relay shortly. Top eight shooters qualify.

(with inputs from our correspondent Shantanu Srivastava)

The Indian women’s hockey team is delivering an absolute pasting to Uzbekistan, taking an impressive 8-0 lead. And we’re only in the second quarter. Three for Deepika.

This is also Baljit Kaur’s 50th appearance for India

Indian women's TT team scripts a 3-0 win against Indonesia with Yashaswini Ghorpade winning the third match 12-10, 11-4, 11-4 against Citra Rasmi. India stand top of the Group F table with two points. They will take on Singapore in their second group-stage fixture tomorrow.

Quimcy returns, but looks in discomfort. She is clutching her back as she serves. You can see the struggle. India, trailing 5-9 when Set 2 resumed, managed to win just one more point. India lose another bronze-medal match and Quimcy is distraught.

Lalremsiami strikes in the sixth minute, and Deepika finds the back of the net in another four minutes, and India lead 2-0 against Uzbekistan in the first quarter.

Indian women's hockey team gets its campaign underway against Uzbekistan in the group stage.

Asian Games 2026 Day 2 LIVE Updates: This is unfortunate for Quimcy. She has taken an injury break in the middle of Set 2. Obviously, she had no break between the two bronze-medal matches, and her back is hurting. If I’m not wrong, she just told her team that she can’t serve. The umpire came over to check on her, and India have been given an extension, leading to a complaint from the Vietnam team.

Asian Games 2026 Day 2 LIVE Updates: Sreeja Akula beat Maharani Ni 3-1 in Match 1 of the Women's Team Group F clash. Diya Chitale then took down Almaira Nebuchadnezzar 3-0. Currently, Yashaswini Ghorpade is up against Citra Rasmi in Match 3.

Asian Games 2026 Day 2 LIVE Updates: Sonam Uttam Maskar finishes her qualifying campaign with a final score of 634.1, and she has a strong chance of making it through to the individual final. Vidarsa, on the other hand, finishes 9th, with a final score of 630.4.

As for the team event, India and Japan are tied at 1264.5 points, and will eventually be decided by Elavenial Valarivan, who has yet to participate in the qualification round.

Asian Games 2026 Day 2 LIVE Updates: Double fault from Quimcy and India lose the opening set in the bronze medal mixed doubles clash.

Asian Games 2026 Day 2 LIVE Updates: In this event, teammates have to pass the ball at least once to each other and take a maximum of three touches before putting it across to the other side of the table.

Right now, India have bounced back from 6-all against their Vietnamese opponents to take an 8-6 lead, before the score is levelled again. This is turning out to be quite an interesting draw.

Asian Games 2026 Day 2 LIVE Updates: A singles campaign that began with a stunning victory over Japanese world No.7 Yuina Sakamoto in the group stage ended with a close defeat for Quimcy D'souza against the same opponent in the bronze medal match. It's been that kind of an Asian Games debut for India's only woman teqball entrant -- so near yet so far. She has another crack at the cherry, though, in the mixed doubles bronze medal match with Mohamed Anas Baig. In tears now, Quimcy will have to pull herself together quickly for the upcoming mixed match.

(with inputs from our correspondent Rutvick Mehta)

Asian Games 2026 Day 2 LIVE Updates: After that time-out, Quimcy comes out denying Sakamoto the set yet, levelling the score at 11-all. But despite her best efforts, Quimcy falls short at the final hurdle. Sakamoto takes home the bronze. But Quimcy, this has been quite an inspiring journey — hopefully the first of many.

Asian Games 2026 Day 2 LIVE Updates: A 10-7 lead for Quimcy against the world No. 7, but Sakamoto is bringing her experience to the table with deft touches and a wide variety of shots, and the Indian is succumbing under pressure. Sakamoto has levelled the score at 10-all. Oh... It’s match point for the Japanese player. Her coaches are gesturing towards the crowd to crank up the cheering.

Asian Games 2026 Day 2 LIVE Updates: Away from shooting and teqball, table tennis action begins with Sreja Akula in action in Women's Team Group F match, where India are up against Indonesia.

Asian Games 2026 Day 2 LIVE Updates: The Maharashtrian has moved on from losing the opening set, as Quimcy surges to a 3-1 lead and extends it to 6-3.

Asian Games 2026 Day 2 LIVE Updates: Oh, what a comeback from Quimcy. From trailing 7-9 against her Japanese opponent, she won the four of the next five points, before Sakamoto levelled the score at 11-all in Set 1. But sheer misfortune for the Indian as Sakamoto took the next two points. Quimcy trails by a set in the bronze-medal match.

Asian Games 2026 Day 2 LIVE Updates: India's Sonam Uttam Maskar storms to the second spot in women's shooting after scoring 349.8 at end of Series 4, while Vidarsa stands eighth, with a score of 305.1 at the end of Series 3

Asian Games 2026 Day 2 LIVE Updates: The official push for India’s first medal at the Games begins. Quimcy, the girl from Maharashtra who had the entire country googling Teqball rules on Saturday, is in action right now in the women’s singles bronze-medal match against Japan’s Sakamoto Yuina.

Asian Games 2026 Day 2 LIVE Updates: Suraj Singh scored 9.683 in men's Changquan. He got a perfect 5 in A Group and a perfect 2 in C Group, and managed 2.683 in B Group, to stand 10th in the list.

Asian Games 2026 Day 2 LIVE Updates: India's next event begins. Elavenil Valarivan, Sonam Maskar, and Vidarsa Vinod are in action in Women's 10m Air Rifle qualifications. This event has 30 participants, each of whom will be given 10 shots in each series, with the highest score being 10.9 -- bulls eye. Top eight will qualify for the final.

Asian Games 2026 Day 2 LIVE Updates: It's a collection of Chinese martial arts, which is sometimes even called Kung-fu, and it dates back to thousands of years to the Qin Dynasty. Back to modern era, Wushu mainly comprises two disciplines -- taolu, or choreographed routines, and sanda, full-contact combat. Changquan falls under the taolu category.

Wushu was first contested at the Asian Games in 1990, in China. This year, it has 15 events:

Men's taolu:

Changquan

Nanquan & nangun

Taijiquan & taijijian

Daoshu & gunshu

Men's sanda:

Sanda 56kg

Sanda 60kg

Sanda 65kg

Sanda 70kg

Sanda 75kg

Women's taolu:

Changquan

Nanquan & nandao

Taijiquan & taijijian

juanshu & qiangshu

Women's sanda:

Sanda 52kg

Sanda 60kg

Asian Games 2026 Day 2 LIVE Updates: India's Suraj Singh is among the 20 participants in the men's Changquan final, which is underway right now. The participants will be scored out of 10, broken down into three parts: Quality of Movement (A Group), Overall Performance (B Group), and Degree of Difficulty (C Group, or Nandu). A group has a maximum of 5 points, 3 for B and 2 for C.

Unfortunately, the discipline is not being aired at the moment. But stay tuned, Suraj will be up in action shortly.

Asian Games 2026 Day 2 LIVE Updates: Changquan, which translates to ‘Long Fist’, is a form of Wushu that originated in northern China. It emphasises fully extended kicks and striking acrobatic techniques. The modern form involves greater flexibility and athleticism, comparable to that of gymnastics.