Asian Games 2023 is being organized in Hangzhou, China. Today, on the second day, India will participate in various competitions. Remember that a total of 655 players of India are ready to give their all to win medals for the country in 41 sports. Indian women’s cricket will face Sri Lanka in the final match today. India has a great opportunity to win gold medals in many sports including women’s cricket.
Welcome to live coverage of the second day of the Asian Games 2023 in Hangzhou, China. India has a golden opportunity to win gold medals in many competitions on Monday. Indian women’s cricket team will face Sri Lanka in the gold medal match. Indian athletes will start their campaign in tennis and wushu. India has a chance to win medals in various categories of shooting. India gave a strong performance in rowing on Sunday and Thanjam Priya Devi and Rukmani will have a chance to win a medal in the W8+ final.
India becomes Asian Games Gold Champion
The Indian women’s cricket team created history in Hangzhou on Monday. The Indian women’s cricket team led by Harmanpreet Kaur participated in the Asian Games for the first time and won the gold medal. India defeated Sri Lanka by 19 runs in the final. India batted first and scored 116 runs losing 7 wickets in 20 overs. In reply, the Sri Lankan team could score 97 runs after losing eight wickets in 20 overs.
Devika Vaidya took India closer to victory
Devika Vaidya bowled the 19th over of the innings. Sri Lankan batsmen failed to find boundaries on the leg spinner’s ball. Vaidya bowled a very economical over and conceded only 5 runs. It is almost certain that India will win the gold medal. On the last ball, Devika got Kavisha Dilhari caught out by Richa Ghosh.
Vastrakar bowled de Silva
Pooja Vastrakar came to bowl the 17th over of the innings. He clean bowled Nilakshi de Silva on the very first ball. Pooja tried to bowl the ball on York’s length, on which De Silva went to play a scoop shot, but missed it completely. The ball went straight to the stumps. Nilakshi de Silva scored 23 runs in 34 balls with the help of one four and one six. On the third ball, Ranasinghe hit a boundary towards midwicket. In this over, 6 runs were scored and one wicket was taken.
Vastrakar bowled de Silva
Pooja Vastrakar came to bowl the 17th over of the innings. He clean bowled Nilakshi de Silva on the very first ball. Pooja tried to bowl the ball on York’s length, on which De Silva went to play a scoop shot, but missed it completely. The ball went straight to the stumps. Nilakshi de Silva scored 23 runs in 34 balls with the help of one four and one six. On the third ball, Ranasinghe hit a boundary towards midwicket. In this over, 6 runs were scored and one wicket was taken.
Sidhu’s economical over
Titus Sidhu came to bowl the 16th over of the innings. Two runs were scored in his first four balls. Ranasinghe played aerial shoa on the fifth ball, but remained safe. Got only one run. Silva took one run on the last ball. 4 runs were scored in this over.
Sri Lanka 43 runs away from victory
The gold medal match between India and Sri Lanka has reached an exciting turn. Sri Lankan team needs 43 runs to win in the last 5 overs. Devika Vaidya bowled the 15th over of the innings, in which Sri Lankan batsmen scored 6 runs.
Pressure on Sri Lankan team
Indian bowlers have kept complete pressure on Sri Lanka. Deepti Sharma bowled the 12th over of the innings and conceded only four runs. Sri Lanka needs 59 runs in 48 balls to win with 6 wickets remaining.
Gaikwad hunted Perera
Hasini Perera and Nilakshi de Silva had just tried to improve Sri Lanka’s innings when Rajeshwari Gaikwad once again pushed the opposition camp on the backfoot. Gaikwad got Hasini Perera caught out by Pooja Vastrakar at deep midwicket on the fifth ball of the 10th over. Perera scored 25 runs in 22 balls with the help of four fours and one six.
Source: dainikbhaskarup.com
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