Asian Games 2023, September 25 HIGHLIGHTS: India wins maiden cricket gold; Indian team clinches gold with World Record score in 10m air rifle

And that’s everything from the Asian Games for today. However, we will continue to bring live updates till the event gets over. The LIVE coverage will resume at 5:30 am IST tomorrow, do tune into our website to get instant updates!

Winning by points was India’s Nishant Dev after he beat Dipesh Lama of Nepal with an unanimous score 5-0.

Nishant Dev defeated Dipesh Lama in round two with an unanimous score of 10 from all five judges. However, Lama was able to secure only three nines.

Men’s 65kg event 1/8 event saw India’s Vikrant Baliyan losing to Samuel Marbun of Indonesia.

Nishant Dev beats Dipesh Lama in round one with an unanimous score of 10 from all five judges

India’s Nishant Dev faces Dipesh Lama of Nepal in the men’s 63.5-71kg event

India’s Pranati Nayak has qualified for the women’s vault event and the all-around finals. In the vault event, she finished sixth with a total of 12.716, with the top 8 ranked gymnasts (maximum two per NOC) qualify to the apparatus final. In the all-around event, Pranati qualified 23rd. Top 24 ranked gymnasts (maximum two per NOC) qualify to the All-Around Final.

The Indians ranked seventh with a time of 7:29.23. Korea shatters the Asian and Games Record by clocking 7:01.73. The previous Asian Record was set by Japan in 2009 with a time of 7:02.26.

India’s Likith Selvaraj clocked 1:01.62 finishing seventh. China’s Qin Haiyang, who won the gold, also broke the Asian Games Record with a timing of 57.76 seconds. He broke his own Asian Games record that he set in the heats early in the morning.

After three rounds, Surya reached the quarterfinals of the men’s 60kg event after winning 2-1.

After Round 2, both players are with one points each.

Deepak wins against Muhammad Abdul of Malaysia in the men’s 46-51kg round of 32 boxing event.

Deepak wins the first round against Muhammad Abdul of Malaysia in an unanimous decision.

India’s Roshibina Devi defeated Aiman K of Kazakhstan by point difference in the Women’s 60Kg Quarterfinal. Wushu does not have a bronze medal match, so incase Roshibina loses the semis, she will win the bronze.

India’s Srihari Nataraj swam the men’s 50m backstroke in 25.39 seconds. China’s Xu Jiayu finished first with a timing of 24.38.

Arundhati loses to China Yang Liu 0-5 (win on points)

Yang dominates over the Indian Arundhati as all five judges yet again show 10s.

Yang takes the first round as all five judges show 10. Arundhati on the losing side.

India’s Arundhati takes on China’s Yang in the round of 16 as the crowd cheers, “Jiayou”.

Men’s- Arjun Erigaisi drew with Amin Tabatabaei of Iran. Vidit Gujarathi defeated Le Tuan Minh of Vietnam.

Women’s- Koneru Humpy lost to Chinese Hou Yifan. Harika Dronavalli drew with Nilufar Yakubbaeva of Uzbekisatan.

The Indian mixed doubles pair of Rujuta Bhosale and Rohan Bopanna are through to the quarterfinals after defeating Uzbekistan’s Akgul and Maksim 6-2, 6-4.

Rutuja Bhosale and Rohan Bopanna win first set 6-2 against Uzbekistan’s Akgul and Maksim.

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Titas Sadhu makes pace talk on slow pitch, leads India to Asian Games cricket gold medal

India defeated Sri Lanka to win maiden Asian Games gold medal in cricket at Pingfeng Cricket Field in Hangzhou on Monday.

Vidit and Arjun defeat Thailand’s Prin and Nguyen of Vietnam, respectively in the men’s individual round three.

India won its maiden gold medal after defeating Sri Lanka by 19 runs!

Indian women’s cricket team are on the brink of winning its maiden gold.....

Deepti gets Ranasinghe out as the Sri Lankan hits the reverse sweep straight into the hands of Titas at short third.

Harika Dronavalli lost to China’s Hou Yifan, while her compatriot Koneru Humpy drew with Zhu Jiner of China in the women’s individual round 3.

Vastrakar gets Nilakshika bowled as Sri Lanka are five wickets

Nilakshika and Oshadhi muster up a crucial partnership for the Sri Lankan team, who are nearing the score Indians set in the first innings.

Gayakwad gets her first wicket of the match as Hasini sweeps only to be caught by Vastrakar at deep square leg.

With Hasini and Nilakshi’s partnership, Sri Lanka attempts a comeback after losing three wickets early in the innings.

Titas Sadhu scalped two wickets in her first over to put breaks on the Sri Lankan scoring spree. She claimed the wickets of Anusha Sanjeewani and Vishmi Gunaratne

Super start from Sri Lanka. Chamari Athapaththu smashed 12 runs off Deepti Sharma’s opening over. The Lankans will need 105 runs from 111 balls to clinch gold!

India finishes at 116/7. Excellent work from Sri Lanka to tightent the screws in the second half of the innings

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India reaches 100 in 16 overs on the back of a steady partnership between Smriti Mandhana (42*) and Jemimah Rodrigues (29*)

India men’s team brushed away Malaysia 20-16, powered by Shaji Pratap Singh’s impressive 10-point game which included two two-pointers

Meanwhile, the women’s team went down 14-19 to Uzbekistan

India started off bright against Japan, as it drew first blood in the 4th minute but the Japanese have come back hard and are currently running away with a 29-8 lead with close to 15 minutes remaining on the clock.

Update: India goes down 13-41 against Japan

Indian pair of Ramkumar Ramanathan and Saketh Myneni beat Indonesia’s Ignautius Susanto and David Susanto 6-3, 6-2 to advance into the next round

Rohan Bopanna/Yuki Bhambri pair bows out of the tournament after a 3-6, 3-6 second round loss against Uzbekistan pair of Sergey Fomin and Khumoyun Sultanov

Vijayveer has been eliminated.. He could only manage a 3/5 which places him fourth with 21 points. His competitor, Yangpan(24) of China, scored a 5/5 to make it into the final three

4/5 for Vijayveer and he now has accumulated 18 points. Meanwhile, Yulian (17) of Indonesia can get only a 3/5 and is most likely to get eliminated

Bullseye! Vijayveer gets 5 out of 5 and is on 14 points now

Much better performance from the Indian, he gets 4/5 this time. Nine points in total now

Marginally better from Vijayveer in this series. He gets 3/5. The Indian is currently languishing at the bottom of the table

Bashir gets yet another 4/5.

Vijayveer hits 2/5 in his first try. Meanwhile, Bashir of Pakistan gets 4/5

India’s Vijayveer Sidhu will be in action in the 25m rapid fire air pistol final and will look to add yet another medal to an already impressive day.

India has won the toss and elected to bat first. Harmanpreet Kaur is back as the captain of the team

India playing 11: Harmanpreet (c), Shafali, Amanjot, Gayakwad, Ghosh, Mandhana, Jemimah, Titas, Deepti, Devika, Vastrakar

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India’s Garima Chaudhary had to bow out of the tournament after the Round of 16 loss against Ryoko Salinas of Philippines

Another bronze for India! The Indian team consisting of Vijayveer Sidhu, Anish and Adarsh Singh has clinched bronze with 1718 points

Vijayveer finishes 25m Rapid Fire Pistol Men’s Qualifications with 582 points including 18 inner 10s and advances to the final, which will happen at 11:30am IST

Men’s singles round 2 - Ramkumar Ramanathan is through to the next round after his opponent, Sunatullo Isroilov of Tajikistan, opted for a walkover.

Women’s Singles Round 2 - Rutuja Bhosale beat Kazakhstan’s Aruzhan Sagandykova 7-6, 6-2 in straight sets

Women’s Singles Round 2 - Ankita Raina beat Uzbekistan’s Sabrina Olimjonova 6-0, 6-0

India’s Aishwary Pratap Singh Tomar clinched the bronze medal with 228.8 points towards his name. China’s Sheng Lihao broke the world record with 253.3 points and won gold while Hajun Park of South Korea won silver with 251.3 points

And that will be it for India’s campaign in rowing. The contingent finishes with five medals - 3 silver and 2 bronze medals

Team India (Satnam singh, Parminder Singh, Jakar Khan, Sukhmeet Singh) has just clinched bronze in the rowing men’s quadruple sculls with a timing of 6:08.61

The Indian team consisting Jaswinder Singh, Bheem Singh, Punit Kumar, Ashish have clinched bronze with 6:10.81s on the clock. Uzbekistan clinched gold with 6:04.96 on the clock while China won silver with 6:10.04s\

India’s Srihari Natraj finishes 3rd in Men’s 50m backstroke in heat 4 with 25.43s on the clock.

3. Rudrankksh - 632.8

5. Tomar - 631.6

8. Divyansh - 629.6

9. Islam Satpayev (Kazakhstan) - 629.6

Satpayev qualifies for the final as only two shooters from a country can advance. Despite having higer number of inner 10s, Divyansh is unable to qualify..

The men’s 10m air rifle final will happen at 9am IST and all three Indians will be taking part in it.

Tomar: 105.3

Rudrankksh: 105.6

Divyansh:104.9

INDIA BREAKS 10m men’s rifle(team) WORLD RECORD! 1893.7 points. Betters the record that China (1893.3 points) created on August 19 earlier this year at the Baku World Championship.

Team standings (as it stands):

1. India: 1893.7

2. Korea: 1890.1

3. China: 1888.2

Tomar: 105.7

Rudrankksh:106.7

Divyansh: 106.3

Team standings (as it stands):

1. India: 1756.3

2. Korea: 1785.8

3. China: 1699.4

Tomar: 105.7

Rudrankksh: 105.5

Divyansh: 104.7

Team standings (as it stands):

1. India: 1513.2

2. Korea: 1669.8

3. China: 1563.9

Divyansh: 104.6

Rudrankksh: 103.8

Tomar: 105.3

Team standings (as it stands):

1. China: 1450.6

2. Korea: 1532.5

3. India: 1280.1

India’s Balraj Panwar finishes fourth with 7:08.79s on the clock. He was poised to land on the podium at the 1500m mark but faltered in the final 500m

China’s Liang Zang clinched gold with 6:57.06 on the clock while Ryuta Arakawa (6:59.79) and Hong Kong’s Hin Chun Chiu (7:00.55) finished with silver and bronze respectively

Divyansh: 104.3

Rudrankksh: 106.1

Tomar: 105.5

India is currently placed third now with 816.6 points. China leads the chart with 1071.0 with Korea in second with 1154.0 points

Rudrankksh: 104.8

Divyansh: 104.8

Tomar: 104.1

India’s Rudrankksh Patil in his first 6 attempts: 10.7 - 10.5 - 10.9 - 10.4 - 10.7 - 9.6.

Divyansh Singh Panwar’s first 6 shots: 10.1 - 10.7 - 10.3 - 10.3 - 10.7 - 10.5

Here are the bib numbers and firing points that have been assigned to the Indian shooters:

1. Divyansh Singh Panwar: FP 18, BIB 1131

2. Aishwary Pratap Singh Tomar: FP 54, BIB 1133

3. Rudrankksh Balasaheb Patil: FP 57, BIB 1132

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SHOOTING

6:30 AM: 10m Air Rifle Men’s Qualification- Divyansh Panwar, Rudrankkash Patil, Aishwary Pratap Singh Tomar

6: 30 AM: 10m Air Rifle Men’s Team Final- Divyansh Panwar, Rudrankkash Patil, Aishwary Pratap Singh Tomar

6:30 AM: 25m Rapid Fire Pistol Men Qualification Phase 2- Adarsh Singh, Anish, Vijayveer Sidhu

6:30 AM: 25m Rapid Fire Pistol Team Men Phase 2 (Medal event)- Adarsh Singh, Anish, Vijayveer Sidhu

(Medal rounds subject to qualification)

ROWING

7:00 AM: Men’s Single Sculls Final A- Balraj Panwar

7:40 AM: Men’s Four Final A- Jaswinder, Bheem, Punit, Ashish

8:30 AM: Men’s Quadruple Sculls Final A- Satnam, Parminder, Jakar, Sukhmeet

8:50 AM: Women’s Eight Final A- Sonali, Ritu, Priya Devi, Varsha, Aswathi, Nilesh, Tendenthoi Devi, Rukmani, Geetanjali

ARTISTICS GYMNASTICS

7:30 AM onwards: Women’s Qualification- Pranati Nayak

JUDO

7:30 AM onwards: Women -70Kg Elimination Round of 16- Garima Choudhary

(Medal bouts are subject to qualification)

SWIMMING

7:30 AM onwards: Men’s 50m backstroke Heat 4- Srihari Nataraj

7:41 AM onwards: Women’s 50m Backstroke Heat 3- Maana Patil

7:52 AM onwards: Men’s 50m Freestyle Heats- Anand AS, Virdhawal Khade

8:06 AM onwards: Women’s 200m Freestyle Heat 1- Dhinidhi Desinghu

8:20 AM onwards: Men’s 100m Breaststroke Heat 3- Likhith

8:35 AM onwards: Women’s 200m Individual Medley Heat- Hashika Ramachandra

8:51 AM onwards: Men’s 4 x 200m Freestyle Relay Heat 2

(Medal events subject to qualification)

TENNIS

7:30 AM

Women’s Singles Round 2- Ankita Raina, Rutuja Bhosale

Men’s Singles Round 2- Ramkumar Ramanathan

9:30 AM onwards

Men’s Doubles Round 2- India 1 vs Uzbekistan 1

Women’s Doubles Round 1- India 2 vs Kazakhstan 2

Men’s Doubles Round 2- India 2 vs Singapore 2

1:30 PM onwards: Mixed Doubles Round 2- India 1 vs Uzbekistan 2

RUGBY SEVENS

8:20 am: Women’s Pool F- India vs Singapore

(semifinal is subject to qualification)

SAILING

8:30 AM ONWARDS

Men’s Windsurfing - iQFoil-Jerome Kumar Savarimuthu

Men’s Dinghy- ILCA7- Vishnu Sarvanan

Men’s Skiff - 49er- KC Ganapathy, Varun Thakkar

Men’s Windsurfer - RS-X: Eabad Ali

8:40 AM Onwards

Women’s Single Dinghy - ILCA6- Women’s Single Dinghy - ILCA6- Nethra Kumanan

Women’s Skiff - 49erFX- Harshita Tomar and Shital Verma

Women’s Windsurfer - RS-X: Ishwariya Ganesh

11: 30 AM Onwards

Mixed Multihull - Nacra 17: Siddeshwar Indar Doiphode and Ramya Saravanan

Mixed Dinghy - 470: Sudhanshu Shekhar and Preeti Kongara

Boy’s Dinghy - ILCA4: Adhvait Menon

11:34 AM Onwards: Men’s Kite - IKA Formula Kite- Chitresh Tatha

11:40 AM onwards: Girl’s Dinghy - ILCA4: Neha Thakur

CRICKET

11:30 AM: Women’s team gold medal match- India vs Sri Lanka

HANDBALL

11:30 AM: Women’s Preliminary Round - Group B- India vs Japan

BASKETBALL 3X3

11:50 PM: Women’s Round Robin Pool A- India vs Uzbekistan

12:10 PM: Men’s Round Robin Pool C- India vs Malaysia

CHESS

12:30 PM: Men/Women’s Individual Round 3

2:30 PM: Men/Women’s Individual Round 4

BOXING

4:45 PM: Women’s 60-66Kg - Preliminaries - R16- Arundhati Choudhary

5:15 PM: Men’s 46-51Kg - Preliminaries - R32- Deepak

7 PM: Men’s 63.5-71Kg - Preliminaries - R32- Nishant Dev

WUSHU

5 PM onwards: Men’s 60Kg 1/8 Final- Surya Bhanu Partap

Men’s 65Kg 1/8 Final- Vikrant Baliyan

Shooting medal events, cricket finals, rowing final, swimming final will be broadcasted on Sony Sports Network.

For the events which will not be telecast on the Sony Sports Network on September 25, you can get instant updates on Sportstar website/app.