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THURSDAY, AUGUST 23, 2018 (PAGE 10) DAILY EXCELSIOR, JAMMU Indian men’s hockey team decimates Hong Surya Bhanu Partap keeps J&K’s flag high, wins bronze Kong China 26-0, betters 86-year old record India at Asiad: Rahi leads the way with gold, JAKARTA, Aug 22 : get on when they earned their first penalty corner but India The Indian men's hockey went for the review which turned wushu delivers best medal haul team today recorded its biggest out to be successful. ever win in international hockey India's chief coach Harendra PALEMBANG/JAKARTA, Aug as it annihilated Hong Kong Singh was happy for his players 22: China by 26-0 in a Pool B match and said they are now part of a of the Asian Games, bettering an legacy which will be always be Rahi Sarnobat beat all expecta- 86-year-old mark here. remembered in the history of tions to become India's first woman Defending champions India Indian hockey. shooter with an Asian Games gold bettered its record set way back "For me it does not matter, and the low-profile wushu players in 1932 when the national team, but for the players it is a proud delivered their best ever perform- ance even in defeat on another high- yielding day for the country at the regional showpiece. With four gold, three silver and James Anderson shakes hands with Virat Kohli after the match. eight bronze medals in their overall tally, India stood seventh in the medal table, which was led by quite Brilliant India pull back a margin by powerhouse China with 82 medals, including 37 gold. The spotlight was on 16-year- old sensation Manu Bhaker, who with 203-run win in 3rd Test shot a Games record qualifying NOTTINGHAM, Aug 22: hands up when it mattered the who is the best batsmen in world score at the shooting range in MEDAL TALLY Palembang. But to everyone's sur- most. cricket currently. He has now Rank Country Gold Silver Bronze Total A moment of action in the hockey match between India and prise, it was Rahi who delivered the India's cornered cricketers pro- Hardik Pandya (five-for and scored hundreds in Australia, 1 CHN 37 30 15 82 Hong Kong during 18th Asian Games in Jakarta on Wednesday. yellow metal, holding her nerve in a duced a fantastic collective per- half-century) produced an all- South Africa, New Zealand and 2 JPN 20 23 25 68 (UNI) final which was settled after two formance to outclass England by 3 KOR 11 15 23 49 SCOREBOARD shoot-offs. 203 runs in the third Test to keep which had legendary Dhyan moment. When history will be India 1st Innings 329 "Shooting is life for me," said 4 IRI 7 3 6 16 the five-match series alive, here Chand, Roop Singh and Gurmeet discussed, the names of these 18 the former World Cup gold-medal- 5 INA 6 3 7 16 today. England 1st Innings 161 Singh, thrashed USA 24-1 in the players will be there. The record list, who was laid low by an elbow 6 PRK 5 2 3 10 Needing only a wicket on the India 2nd Innings 352-7/decl Olympics at Los Angeles. is always for the players," injury after a gold medal in the 2014 7 IND 4 3 8 15 final morning, India completed the England 2nd Innings The record for the biggest Harendra told reporters. Commonwealth Games in 8 THA 4 2 10 16 formalities in only 2.5 overs as A Cook c Rahul b Ishant 17 win remains with New Zealand, India did not show any mercy Glasgow. 9 UZB 3 5 6 14 England were all out for 317, well K Jennings c Pant b Ishant 13 who beat Samoa 36-1 in 1994. to their opponents, scoring four 10 TPE 3 3 8 14 Such was their dominance goals in the first five minutes of In Jakarta, four bronze medals short of the mammoth victory tar- J Root c Rahul b Bumrah 13 ing of Yang Hsieh and Yang Tsung- India were already through to that with seven minutes to go the match. They ended the first were settled for in wushu and get of 521 runs. O Pope c Kohli b Shami 16 Hua of Chinese Taipei to win 6-3, 5- the quarters with a first-round bye India took its goalkeeper off the quarter with a comprehensive though not one Indian in the fray India now trail England 1-2 B Stokes c Rahul b Pandya 62 made the finals, it would still go 7, 10-1. and today's round only decided the but more importantly got some field. six-goal lead and made it 14-0 J Buttler lbw Bumrah 106 down as the low-profile sport's best The rowers also continued their placement of the teams in the draw breathing space after a heart- As many as 13 Indian players after adding eight in the second J Bairstow b Bumrah 0 ever performance, in terms of num- good show and qualified for the based on their rankings. India ended breaking defeat in Edgbaston, fol- registered their names in the quarter. final round in three more events. up in the bottom half with Korea in C Woakes c Pant b Bumrah 4 ber of medals won, in the Asian lowed by the debacle at the Lord's. scoresheet today. It turned out to be just a prac- Rohit Kumar and Bhagwan the upper half. Rupinderpal Singh (3rd, 5th, tice match for India, which had Games. The final wicket was taken by A Rashid not out 33 Singh finished on top in men's light- But just as any other day, today 30th, 45th, 59th minutes), trounced hosts Indonesia 17-0 in Roshibina Devi (women's Ravichandran Ashwin, who dis- S Broad c Rahul b Bumrah 20 weight double sculls repechage was not without its share of heart- Harmanpreet Singh (29th, 52nd, their first pool match. 60kg), Santosh Kumar (men's missed James Amderson (11), J Anderson c Rahane b Ashwin 11 56kg) Surya Bhanu Pratap (men's round with a time of 7:14.23s to 53rd, 54th) and Akashdeep The play was restricted to breaks and disappointments. caught by Ajinkya Rahane. Extra: (b2, lb16,nb4) 22 60kg) and Narender Grewal (men's qualify for the final race to be held Singh (2nd, 32nd, 35th) scored a Hong Kong China's half and Star gymnast Dipa Karmakar The win enabled Virat Kohli to Total: (for 10 wickets, 104.5 Overs) 317 65kg) lost their respective semifinal on August 24. hattrick each, while Manpreet Indian captain P R Sreejesh, had to withdraw from the artistic surpass Sourav Ganguly with 22 Sanda bouts but will go back home In the women's four repechage Bowlers: Bumrah 29-8-85-5, Ishant 20-4-70-2, Ashwin Singh (3rd, 17th), Lalit guarding the goal post, was not team finals due to the knee injury, Test wins and is now five short of content after the stronger-than- round, the Indian quartet of Sanjita 22.5-8-44-1, Shami 19-3-78-1, Pandya 14-5-22-1. Upadhayay (17th, 19th), Varun challenged even once. which had threatened to end her Mahendra Singh Dhoni's 27 wins. expected showing. The previous Dung Dung, Annu, Navneet Kaur Kumar (23rd, 30th), SV Sunil If goalkeeper Michael career not so long back. The team, The heartening aspect was the round performance with wickets England. best was a silver and a bronze in the and Yamini Singh finished fourth (7th), Vivek Sagar Prasad (14th), Chung had not made a few good which missed her, ended seventh in kind of domination shown by the and runs to justify his place and The Indian captain's ability to 2010 Guangzhou Games. with a time of 7:53.29s but still Mandeep Singh (21st), Amit saves in the third quarter, the the final. Indian team in what can easily be make a statement to the sceptics. cut down on his scoring shots, Two tennis medals were also made it to the final to be held on Rohidas (27th), Dilpreet Singh scoreline could have been even After the high of two gold and termed as a complete performance The slip catching improved by showing patience when Jimmy guaranteed with Ankita Raina and August 24. under Virat Kohli's captaincy out- leaps and bounds with Rahul tak- Anderson was on fire was hall- (48th), Chinglensana Singh more worse for Hong Kong the top-seeded paring of Rohan The men's lightweight eight a bronze medal in the freestyle side the sub-continent. ing seven catches. mark of his greatness. (51st), Simranjeet Singh (53rd) China. Bopanna and Divij Sharan pro- team was the last to compete and competition, India endured a disap- "In the four years I have been Rishabh Pant showed why he Such has been his domination and Surender Kumar (55th) were While Sreejesh guarded the gressing to the semifinals of their qualified for the final race by com- pointing end to their wrestling doing this job, if you look at a clin- is considered a minefield of talent that the second-highest scorer the other goal getters for India. post in the first half, Krishan respective events. ing on top with a time of 6:15.62. campaign with Greco-Roman ical performance overseas, I think during his eventful stay at the across both the teams is Jonny It was always expected to be Bahadur Pathak did the duty World number 189 Raina dis- The final will be held on August 24.