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

Sakshi loses her 51kg Round of 16 bout to Alua Balkibekova of Kazakhstan 2-3. Bad result for India. There were high expectations of her. Pranati Nayak is now going to participate in the vault final.

India's campaign at the Asian Games 2026 on Day 2 comes to an end. Elavenil Valarivan was the star of the day, as she won two silver medals - one in the women's 10m individual air rifle event, and one alongside Sonam Maskar and Vidarsa Vinod in the women's 10m team air-rifle event. India will look to add more to their medal tally in Day 3.

Vikrant Baliyan was the second Indian star to bow out from Wushu on Day 2 of the Asian Games 2026. He suffered a 0-2 defeat at the hands of Iran's Soheil Mosavi in the Round of 16 match of the men's 75kg category of the event.

India ended a disappointing run against Iran, losing three matches on the trot, and going down 0-3 in the men's table tennis team Group E match. Harmeet Desai was the latest Indian star to face defeat at the hands of Nima Alamian.

The Indian men's table tennis team have gotten off to a very poor start, as they have now lost two games on the trot - both in straight sets. Manav Thakkar fell in the second game to 17-year-old Benyamin Farraji.

In the table tennis men's team event, India got off to a poor start against Iran, as Manush Shah fell in three straight sets by a margin of 3-11, 8-11, 10-12. India thus trail 0-1 in this contest.

Earlier today, India opened their medal tally at the Asian Games 2022, when the trio of Sonam Maskar, Elavenil Valarivan and Vidarsa Vinod K clinched silver in the women’s 10m air rifle team event.

In the women's 52 kg Wushu event, India's campaign ends in the Round of 16, as Aparna Dahiya faced defeat at the hands of Iran's Sinkaeichetan Sogand by a margin of 0-2.

Yashaswini Ghorpade produced a stellar show in a tightly contested final game of the women's team event Group F match, as she defeated Loy Ming by winning 5-11, 11-8, 12-10, 4-11, 11-9. India won the contest by a margin of 3-2.

The Group E match of the Men's team event of table tennis between India and Iran has officially begun. For India, it is Manush Shah who has begun proceedings.

Swimmer Rishabh Das ends 6th in the men's 100m backstroke final, with a timing of 54.77s. The 19-year-old betters his own personal best for a second time in the day, going past 54.85s in the heats earlier in the day. His previous personal best in the event was 55.44s. It is a creditable feat for the youngster in his first Asian Games. Rishabh has been training in Australia for some time now, and is looked at as a bright prospect in Indian swimming.

Fantastic show by Sreeja Akula. It's 2-2 now after her 6-11, 11-3, 11-7 and 11-4 win against Singapore's Jian Zeng. It goes down to the fifth encounter now. It's Yashaswini Ghorpade vs Ming Loy. It was Ming Loy who had beaten Akula earlier.

Diya Chitale also loses against Singapore's Tan Zhao. 11-7, 11-4, 7-11, 11-5 is the result in Zhao's favour. India are trailing 1-2. All eyes now on Sreeja Akula who is playing Jian Zeng.

India lose the second tie as Sreeja Akula falls short in the final game against Loy Ming to go down 8-11, 11-4, 9-11, 11-4, 6-11. Can Diya Chitale rescue India in the third tie? She is up against Tan Zhao.

India face Singapore in their second Group F match. Yashaswini Ghorpade beat Zeng Jian in the opening tie 11-7, 11-3, 8-11, 11-9. Sreeja Akula is currently up against Loy Ming in the second tie

Deepti Sharma takes the final two wickets as Bangladesh fold for 81 runs in 15.4 overs. India Women are through to the final after a win by 114 runs, and will now face Sri Lanka, in a repeat of the Asia Cup finale.

13-1 is the final score. Three goals came in the final quarter for India, all in a space of just three minutes. India will next face Sri Lanka on Tuesday in Pool A fixture.

Nandini Sharma has three wickets as Bangladesh lose 3 more wickets, chasing 196. India inch closer to the final, where they will face Sri Lanka.

The fourth quarter is still underway. 10 minutes left on the clock, and India lead 13-1 against Indonesia. Dilpreet has four goals in all. The only goal scored by Indonesia came from Al Arsh Aulia and remains the only goal the nation has ever scored against India in all hockey meetings.

Tanvi Sharma defeated Diana Namenova 21-5, 21-10 as India beat Kazakhstan without dropping a game.

With the win, India march to the quarters, where they will now face Japan on September 22 to secure a medal in the Women's Team event.

Two for the spinners and two for the pacers and Bangladesh find themselves four down in the semifinal clash against India. Nandini Sharma picked up the first wicket in the seventh ball of the innings, dismissing opener Juairiya Ferdous for a golden duck. Kranti Gaud picked up the second in the third over while Shree Charani got the better of Bangladesh skipper Nigar Sultana to send Bangladesh three down inside the powerplay. Shreyanka Patil picked up the fourth, dismissing Shorna Akter in the seventh over.

Bangladesh 48/4 in 9 overs.

India are up against Kazakhstan in the first round of women's team event. PV Sindhu beat Kamila Smagulova 21-7, 21-9 in the first tie. Unnati Hooda won the second tie 21-7, 21-10 against Alissa Kulseshova. Tanvi Sharma is up next against Diana Namenova.

It's time for the men's team now. They slotted in seven goals past Indonesia in Men's Pool A match at halftime. Dilpreet struck twice, while Harmanpreet converted one from the penalty corner.

Historically, India have enjoyed playing against Indonesia. At the 2018 Asian Games, India won 17-0 while at the 2022 Asia Cup a second string Indian team had hammered Indonesia 16-0. Like this match, the last two were also round robin matches.

That's a 49-ball century from the India opener as Shafali becomes the first batter to score a hundred in the Asian Games. She smashed three boundaries and nine sixes as India amassed 195 for four in 20 overs against Bangladesh. The right-hander is now India third centurion in T2OI cricket after Mandhana (two) and Harmanpreet.

Shafali has been dominating this format all throughout 2026 thus far, scoring 35 sixes, the most by any batter, and amassing 815 runs, which is just 10 runs short of Laura Wolvaardt (824), who holds the top spot.

MMA fighter Varun Sanyal, son of Prime Minister's Economic Advisory Council member Sanjiv Sanyal, who was India's medal hope at the Asian Games, is out of trouble now according to MMA Sports Federation of India president Nikhil Kundera.

"Fortunately, he was found in that state by an athlete from Nepal who woke him up. Varun was able to call me and we took him to hospital. There was not much to be worried about, so he was brought back to the cruise around 3:00am. He is now stable and out of trouble," he told PTI.