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Asian Games 2023: India Clinch Equestrian Team Dressage Gold For First Time In 41 Years

India's dressage team cantered to its first ever Asian Games gold and only second in this discipline in the history of the sport with the quartet of Sudipti Hajela, Divyakriti Singh, Vipul Hriday Chheda and Anush Agarwalla living up to expectations on Tuesday. The Indian quartet was performing well in the selection trials as their scores either matched or were better than the Asian Games medal winners from the previous editions. It was more about the colour of medal they would win and they grabbed the top place on the podium by aggregating 209.205 percentage points, leaving behind China (204.882 %) and Hong Kong (204.852%).

India Make Winning Start At Badminton World Junior Championships

Indian shuttlers registered a dominating 5-0 victory over Cook Islands to make a winning start to their campaign in the mixed team event of the BWF World Junior Championships in Spokane, USA. The mixed doubles pair of Sathwik Reddy Kanapuram and Vaishnavi Khadkekar provided India a winning start, beating Kaiyin Mataio and Tereapii Akavi with a resounding 21-6 21-8 victory. Ayush Shetty and Tara Shah further extended India's lead with dominant show in their respective singles matches. In the boys' singles match, Ayush displayed his skills to register an impressive 21-6 21-3 win over Daniel Akavi, while Tara showcased her class and just took 14 minutes to beat Te Pa O Te Rangi Tupa 21-3 21-6 in girls singles.

Asian Games 2023: Sumit Nagal, Ankita Raina Progress To Quarterfinals, Ramkumar Ramanathan, Rutuja Bhosale Exit From Singles

Counter-puncher Sumit Nagal blunted the challenge of big-serving Beibit Zhukayev with his perseverance while Ankita Raina outgunned Adithya P Karunaratne without fuss as the two Indians inched closer to singles medals by reaching the quarterfinals at the Asian Games on Tuesday. Kazakhstan's Zhukayev served big but Nagal controlled the points better for a 7-6 (9) 6-4 in a riveting men's singles third round while Raina cruised to a 6-1 6-2 win over her Hong Kong's opponent in the third round of the women's singles event.

Asian Games: India Football Team Holds Training Session Ahead Of Saudi Arabia Clash

The Indian football team held its first training session in Hangzhou before their round of 16 match at the Asian Games. "Finally got done with the first training session with our boys, enjoying beautiful facilities in Hangzhou. Only in the city they have 29 new stadiums and in the region 41. It's amazing what China has done for football infrastructure to grow the sport," India Head Coach Igor Stimac wrote on X. Stimac earlier appreciated the Blue Tigers for qualifying to the round of 16 of the tournament even after completing their recovery sessions at a park in China.

Unfamiliar Indian conditions not a worry for Pakistan, says Babar

LAHORE, Pakistan : Pakistan captain Babar Azam does not think lack of familiarity with Indian conditions would hurt their bid for a second 50-overs World Cup title as they embark on a rare tour of the neighbouring country on Tuesday.

Emotional Roller-Coaster For Divyansh At Asian Games But He Will Come Out Stronger, Says Coach

Divyansh Singh Panwar would have gone through an entire gamut of emotions in the last two days of the Asian Games in Hangzhou. If the 20-year-old was ecstatic following the 10m air rifle team gold on Monday, he looked distraught on Tuesday, after losing the 10m air rifle mixed team bronze to the South Korean team at the same venue -- and probably the same firing station. Divyansh and Ramita Jindal lost a nerve-wracking bronze-medal contest as India went without a medal at the shooting range for the first time in three days.

Asian Games 2023: Ayan Biswas Bows Out In Last 16, Mayank Agarwal Exits In Last 32 Of Esports Event

Indian Esports contestants Ayan Biswas and Mayank Agarwal were eliminated in the street fighter knockout rounds of the Asian Games on Tuesday. Ayan (AYAN01) clinched the top-16 place before suffering tough defeat against Yeh Man Ho of Hong Kong, while Prajapati (MiKeYROG) exited in the round of 32. Ayan clinched a sensational victory by a 2-0 margin against Nguyen Khanh Hung Chau of Vietnam to start his campaign on a winning note before going down 1-2 to Alrayfal Abdulrahman Salem A of Saudi Arabia in the winners bracket Round 1.

'Killer Miller': Proteas batting ace holds record he would prefer not to have

David Miller holds an international cricket record he would prefer not to have.

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Asian Games 2023: India Clinch Equestrian Team Dressage Gold For First Time In 41 Years

India Make Winning Start At Badminton World Junior Championships

Asian Games 2023: Sumit Nagal, Ankita Raina Progress To Quarterfinals, Ramkumar Ramanathan, Rutuja Bhosale Exit From Singles

Asian Games: India Football Team Holds Training Session Ahead Of Saudi Arabia Clash

Unfamiliar Indian conditions not a worry for Pakistan, says Babar

Emotional Roller-Coaster For Divyansh At Asian Games But He Will Come Out Stronger, Says Coach

Asian Games 2023: Ayan Biswas Bows Out In Last 16, Mayank Agarwal Exits In Last 32 Of Esports Event

'Killer Miller': Proteas batting ace holds record he would prefer not to have