19:13 Badminton | Women's Singles Round of 16: Saina Nehwal defeated Isle of Man’s Jessica Li today. This was after Li retired from the match midway. Nehwal had won the first game 21-04 and was leading in the second game 2-0 when the play ended.
Nehwal will play Canada’s Rachel Honderich in the Quarter-Final.
19:03 Maharashtra government announces cash rewards for medal winners
The Maharashtra government today announced cash prizes for those who bagged medals in the ongoing Commonwealth Games Gold Coast.
A release issued by the Chief Minister's office stated that Madhurika Patkar and Pooja Sahasrabuddhe, both from Thane, and Sanil Shetty have bagged gold in table tennis.
Also, Chirag C Shetty of Vile Parle has bagged a gold medal in badminton. Besides, Heena Sidhu, who lives in the Mumbai suburb of Goregaon, has won a gold and silver medal in two categories of pistol shooting, it said.
The release stated that each gold medal winner will be rewarded with a cash prize of Rs 50 lakh, silver medallists with Rs 30 lakh and bronze winners will be awarded Rs 20 lakh each.
Besides, their coaches shall be honoured with Rs 12.5 lakh, Rs 7.5 lakh and Rs 5 lakh, respectively for each gold, silver and bronze medal won by the players from the state.
Chief Minister Devendra Fadnavis and Sports Minister Vinod Tawde congratulated the winners. (PTI)
18:37 With two medals from Seema Punia and Navjeet Dhillon in Women’s Discus throw, India’s medal tally is:
Gold: 14
Silver: 07
Bronze: 10
18:10 Women’s Hockey Semi-Final: Australia has defeated India 1-0. Grace Stewart scored for the Aussies. India will now play against England on April 14 for the bronze medal.
17:43 Women’s Hockey Semi-Final: Australia have taken the lead with a goal by Grace Stewart (3rd Quarter).
17:36 Squash dispatch | Dipika Pallikal- Saurav Ghosal advance to Semis, Chinappa-Sandhu crash out
Indian duo Dipika Pallikal and Saurav Ghosal have advanced to the Semi-Finals of the Squash mixed double's event even as compatriots Joshna Chinappa and Harinder Pal Sandhu crashed out of the CWG 2018 today.
The fifth seeded pair, who had a shaky pre-quarterfinal match against a Malaysian duo, was in terrific touch in the quarterfinal match against third seed Tesni Evans and Peter Creed of Wales.
The match witnessed a surfeit of rallies and eventually it was the skill in finding the corners and nick that mattered. Both Saurav and Dipika never left anything to chance and played with a lot of confidence to script a 11-8, 11-10 win and stun the fancied opponents.
They will face top seeds Joelle King and Paul Coll of New Zealand in the semifinals tomorrow.
Coll and King ousted the other pairing of Chinappa and Sandhu and even their best efforts could not help the Indians against the Kiwis.
To say that the New Zealanders managed to scrape through would be right, as the match could not have gone closer with the final score reading 11-10 11-10 in favour of Coll and King.
Men’s Squash update
Vikram Malhotra and Ramit Tandon continued their good work with a solid win over the Jamaican pair of Christopher Binnie and Lewis Walters 11-4 11-10 for a place in the men's doubles quarterfinals.
The Indian pair had got a walkover from Sierra Leone's Ernest Jombla and Yusif Mansaray in their last pool match.
Malhotra and Tandon will next face the fourth seeded pairing of England's James Declan and Willstrop James in the quarterfinals tomorrow. (PTI)
17:20 Table Tennis | Women's Singles Quarterfinal 3: India’s Mouma Das has lost to Singapore's Mengyu Yu in the QF. Mouma lost 1-4 against the Singaporean.
17:12 Women's Discus throw final: India’s Seema Punia clinches a silver medal just ahead of Navjeet Dhillon, who bags a bronze medal. Australia’s Dani Stevens has won the gold.
Seema made a massive throw of 60.41 m while Dhillion’s best today was 57.43 m.
17:08 Women's Long Jump Final: Nayana James and Nellickal V Neena finish 10th and 12th respectively.
17:07 Table Tennis | Women's Singles Quarterfinal 3: India’s Mouma Das trails Singapore’s Mengyu Yu 1-4. (Image: CWG 2018 website)
17:03 India vs Australia, Women’s Hockey Semi-Final witnesses no goals in the first quarter.
Australia 0-0 India, end of First Quarter
16:52 Women’s Hockey Semi-Final: India vs Australia is under way.
16:44 Table Tennis | Women's Singles Quarterfinal 3: India’s Mouma Das trails Singapore’s Mengyu Yu 0-2.
16:34 Women's Long Jump Final: Nayana James and Nellickal V Neena continue to trail after three attempts each. They are currently at the bottom of the table.
16:23 Badminton | Women's Doubles Round of 16: India’s Ashwini Ponnappa and N Sikki Reddy beat Singapore’s Ren-Ne Ong and Jia Ying Crystal Wong 2-0 (21-18, 21-13) to enter the Quarter-Finals.
16:18 Here’s how the Women’s Hockey team has performed so far at CWG 2018 (in Pool A):
India 2-3 Wales (April 5)
India 4-1 Malaysia (April 6)
India 1-2 England (April 8)
India 1-0 South Africa (April 10)
A win today against Australia would take them to the final while a loss would place them against either England or New Zealand in the Third-Place match for the bronze medal.
The Men’s Hockey team will be playing their Semi-Final match against New Zealand tomorrow.
16:00 Reminder: India will take on Australia in the Women’s Hockey Semi-Final at 16:45 IST.
15:56 Women's Long Jump Final:
Nayana James has jumped 6.05 m while Nellickal V Neena has jumped 6.01 m in their second attempts. Both are in the bottom half of the table, after the first round.
15:33 Badminton: Women's Doubles Round of 16
India’s Ashwini Ponnappa and N Sikki Reddy are currently playing against Singapore’s Ren-Ne Ong and Jia Ying Crystal Wong in their Women's Doubles Round of 16 match.
India is currently having a slight advantage over Singapore after around 8 minutes in Game 1.
15:44 Women's Long Jump Final: India’s Nayana James has jumped 6.14 m and Nellickal V Neena have jumped 5.90 m, in her first attempts respectively.
15:32 Women's Long Jump Final has begun. Nellickal V Neena and Nayana James are representing India.
15:28 Indian Chef-de-Mission denies issuing upgraded accreditation to shooter's father
India's Chef-de-mission for the Commonwealth Games, Vikram Sisodia today denied issuing accreditation to the father of a shooter, who tried to enter the athletes lounge at the Belmont Shooting Center in Brisbane city.
"It has been reported in one of the newspaper that one of the shooters father Mr Vinay Varman has been issued upgrade pass or accreditation from the Chef De Mission's office...no accreditation upgrade Pass has been issued from the CDM office to any shooter's father or to any personal coach from the shooting contingent," Sisodia said in a brief statement.
Double trap shooter Varsha Varman's father Vinay Varman had tried to enter the athletes' lounge at the range but was stopped by the officials of the National Rifles Association of India.
Varsha had finished fourth in the women's double trap event yesterday. (PTI)
15:06 Table Tennis | Indian men's doubles pair of Achanta Sharath and Sathiyan Gnanasekaran move into quarterfinals of CWG 2018.
15:05 Squash | Indian pair Dipika Pallikal and Saurav Ghosal enter semi-finals in mixed doubles after defeating Welsh pair Tesni Evans and Peter Creed.
14:51 Sushil Kumar and Rahul Aware strike gold, Babita settles for silver
Double Olympic-medallist Sushil Kumar (74kg) and Rahul Aware claimed contrasting gold medals even as defending champion Babita phogat (53kg) settled for a silver on the opening day of the 21st Commonwealth Games' wrestling competition here today.
Sushil took a minute and 20 seconds to defeat Johannes Botha of South Africa on technical superiority to claim his third successive gold medal at the Games.
Rahul Aware, on the other hand, prevailed 15-7 over Canada's Steven Takahashi in an exciting contest during which the Indian was troubled by a groin niggle but chose to carry on with more than a minute left on the clock. Aware's triumph opened India's gold medal account in the three-day wrestling competition at the Games.
"I have been waiting for this medal for the last 10 years. I can't describe how it feels to claim it. I missed out on 2010, even in 2014, the team was sent without trials. So, I am very happy that I could finally fulfil this dream," said the 26-year-old Aware, who is also the reigning Commonwealth championships gold-medallist.
14:51 Athletics | India's Purnima Hembram is all set to take part in the shot put event, which is a part of heptathlon. Curently, Hembram is in the seventh position.
14:35 Squash | Indian squash pairs Joshna Chinappa-Harinder Pal Sandhu are up against New Zealand's Joelle King and Paul Coll in mixed doubles quarter-finals 1.
14:22 After Sushil Kumar's gold, here's how India's latest medal tally looks:
Gold - 14
Silver - 6
Bronze - 9
14:21 Table Tennis | Indian players Harmeet Desai and Shankar Sanil Shetty win against Northern Ireland's McCreery Paul and Robinson Ashley in men's double round of 16.
14:16 Aware strikes gold for biggest medal of career, Babita settles for silver
Rahul Aware fought through pain to claim the biggest triumph of his wrestling career, a gold medal at the Commonwealth Games on debut, even as defending champion Babita phogat (53kg) settled for a silver here today.
Aware prevailed 15-7 over Canada's Steven Takahashi in an exciting contest during which the Indian was troubled by a groin niggle but chose to carry on with more than a minute left on the clock. His triumph opened India's gold medal account in the three-day wrestling competition at the Games.
Settling for a bronze was 26-year-old Kiran (76kg), who defeated Mauritian Katouskia Pariadhaven by fall in the repechage for her first major medal at the international level.
"I have been waiting for this medal for the last 10 years. I can't describe how it feels to claim it. I missed out on 2010, even in 2014, the team was sent without trials. So, I am very happy that I could finally fulfil this dream," said the 26-year-old, who is also the reigning Commonwealth championships gold-medallist.
14:06 Sushil Kumar wins gold in men's 76 kg freestyle
Wrestler Sushil Kumar wins gold in men's 76 kg freestyle after defeating South Africa's Johannes BOTHA.
13:50 Rahul Aware opens wrestling gold account
Rahul Aware opened India's wrestling gold medal account at the 21st Commonwealth Games but defending champion Babita Phogat (53kg) settled for a silver medal after being outmanoeuvred by Canada's Diana Weicker in the summit clash here today.
Aware defeated Canada's Steven Takahashi in an exciting contest to claim the top hours. This was the first CWG medal of his career.
Babita, who claimed a silver in the 2010 edition before a gold in Glasgow, failed to break through her rival's defences, going down 2-5 in the contest. Her medal opened India's account in the wrestling competition of the Games.
13:40 Babita Phogat settles for silver at CWG Gold Coast
Defending champion Babita Phogat (53kg) settled for a silver medal at the Commonwealth Games after being out-manoeuvred by Canada's Diana Weicker in the summit clash here today. Babita, who claimed a silver in the 2010 edition before a gold in Glasgow, failed to break through her rival's defences, going down 2-5 in the contest.
Her medal opened India's account in the wrestling competition of the Games.
13:32 Kiran claims bronze in women's 76 kg freestyle
Wrestling | Kiran wins bronze in women's 76 kg freestyle after defeating Mauritius' Katouskia Pariadhaven.
13:14 Rahul Aware wins gold in men's 57 kg freestyle
Wrestling | Indian wrestler Rahul Aware claims gold in men's 57 kg freestyle after defeating Canada's Steven Takahashi. Aware's gold pushed India's medal tally to 27.
13:13 Wrestling | Aware is leading by a margin of 9 points.
13:13 Wrestling | Alongside, Kiran is going to start her battle for bronze in women's 76 kg wrestling. Kiran will be going against Mauritus' Katouskia Pariadhaven.
13:10 Wrestling | A very close competition is on between Indian wrestler Aware and Canadian wrestler Takahashi.
13:08 Wrestling | Aware is neck-to-neck with Canada's Takahashi. They both are at 4-4.
13:06 Wrestling | Rahul Aware is all set to win a gold for India as he kick starts to wrestle against Canada's Steven Takahashi in men's fresstyle 57 kg final.
12:48 After Babita Kumari's win, here's how India's latest medal tally looks:
Gold - 12
Silver - 6
Bronze - 8
12:44 Babita Kumari bags's silver in women's freestyle 53 kg Nordic system
Wrestling | Babita Kumari loses to Canada's Daina Weicker in women's freestyle 53 kg Nordic system match. Kumari was competing for gold, however, she claims a silver medal for India.
12:31 Table Tennis | India's Sathiyan Gnanasekaran wins men's singles round of 16 against Nigeria's Segun Toriola.
12:25 Crystal meth to gold: now Luvo Manyonga eyes long jump world record
South African long jumper Luvo Manyonga said he aimed to go another season unbeaten and set his sights on the world record after snatching a brilliant victory at the Commonwealth Games.
The former crystal meth addict, who shook off his problems to claim Olympic silver in 2016, underlined his growing status with a final leap of 8.41m to set a new Games record and grab gold from Australia's Henry Frayne.
Manyonga said that with more time to acclimatise he could have challenged Mike Powell's world record of 8.95m set in 1991 -- the year he was born. "If I could get some more time, I could give it a try," he said of the damp and slippery Gold Coast track.
"Anything can happen. I just have to focus on the run-up and technique, the rest will do itself." S
uch confidence underlines the heady rise of Manyonga, who was banned after testing positive for methamphetamine in 2012 and struggled with addiction before his triumphant return. Now, a first Commonwealth Games title is all in a day's work for the 27-year-old as he targets staying unbeaten for a second straight season, with the 2020 Tokyo Olympics approaching.
"It was on my bucket list of the major competitions and now I've ticked off the Commonwealth Games. I'm looking for the Intercontinental (Cup) and there's still more to tick," he said. "It's a medal in the bag, I'm just going to go home and start working again," added Munyonga.
12:15 13 African athletes go missing at Commonwealth Games
Five more African athletes may have vanished from the Commonwealth Games, organisers said today, after eight competitors from Cameroon were suspected of fleeing a day earlier.
Gold Coast organisers confirmed reports that athletes from Rwanda and Uganda were thought to have gone missing, while they were also looking to verify the whereabouts of two squash players from Sierra Leone. "We're obviously looking at it very carefully," Commonwealth Games Federation chief executive David Grevemberg told reporters.
"We have a service to people who have legitimate visas to be in this country," he added. "Until it becomes a true issue and somebody has outstayed their visa, or have formally applied for asylum, we just need to continue to monitor the situations. The focus now is to support teams in trying to track down the athletes who are missing."
11:53 Indian players will soon participate in the following events for medals:
Gold medal match:
Babita Kumari vs Diana Weicker (53kg Nordic)
Rahul Aware vs Steven Takahasi (57kg Freestyle)
Sushil Kumar vs Johannes Botha (74kg Freestyle)
Bronze medal match:
Kiran vs Katouskia Pariadhaven (76kg Freestyle)
11:12 Tejaswini Sawant bags silver in women's 50m rifle prone
The seasoned Tejaswini Sawant brought her years of experience into play en route to claiming the silver medal in the women's 50m rifle prone event of the 21st Commonwealth Games here today.
Tejaswini shot 102.1, 102.4, 103.3, 102.8, 103.7, 104.6 for a cumulative score of 618.9 over six series to claim her six CWG medal.
Young Anjum Moudgil, the other Indian shooter in the fray, finished a lowly 16th with 602.2.
11:02 Squash | Two of the Indian squash pairs — Dipika Pallikal Karthik-Saurav Ghosal and Joshna Chinappa-Harinder Pal Sandhu will be competing in the mixed doubles quarter finals shortly.
10:53 Table Tennis | India's Sharath Achanta wins 4-1 against Australia's Heeming Hu in men's singles round of 16. Achanta will join Harmeet Desai in the quarter-finals.
10:41 Table Tennis | India's Sarath Achanta continues to lead in men's singles round of 16 against Australia's Heming Hu.
10:30 Table Tennis | India's Sarath Achanta is leading in men's singles round of 16 against Australia's Heming Hu.
10:20 Tejaswini Sawant bags silver in 50m rifle prone finals
Shooter Tejaswini Sawant bags silver in 50m rifle prone finals. Sawant's victory adds another medal to India's kitty to 25.
10:09 Table Tennis | Mouma Das wins 4-3 against England's Tin-Tin Ho in women's singles round of 16 and progresses to the quarter-finals with Manik Batra.
10:03 Shooting | Indian shooter Tejaswini Sawant is at the fourth spot in women's 50 metres rifle pone finals after the fourth in the six series. Anjum Moudgil is at the 18th spot.
10:00 Here's a list of upcoming matches for medals:
Gold medal match:
Babita Kumari vs Diana Weicker (53kg Nordic)
Rahul Aware vs Steven Takahasi (57kg Freestyle)
Sushil Kumar vs Johannes Botha (74kg Freestyle)
Bronze medal match:
Kiran vs Katouskia Pariadhaven (76kg Freestyle)
09:57 Badminton | As expected, India's Srikanth Kidambi wins men's singles round of 16 gainst Sri Lanka's Niluka Karunaratne in the game 21-10, 21-10. With this, Kidambi moves to quarter-finals.
09:54 Table Tennis | Harmeet Desai wins against Malaysia's Chee Feng Leong in men's singles round of 16.
09:51 Badminton | P V Sindhu wins easily against Australia's Hsua-Yu Wendy Chen in women's singles round of 16. Sindhu will now move to the next round.
09:47 Badminton | India's Srikanth Kidambi is maintaining a lead even in game 2 of men's singles round of 16. Kidambi is up against Sri Lanka's Niluka Karunaratne.
09:38 Badminton | India's Srikanth Kidambi wins game 1 against Sri Lanka's Niluka Karunaratne.
09:35 Badminton | India's Srikanth Kidambi widens his lead in game 1 (19-10) against Sri Lanka's Niluka Karunaratne.
09:33 3,000 anti-doping tests conducted before Commonwealth Games
Anti-doping officials conducted more than 3,000 tests ahead of the Commonwealth Games in an effort to weed out athletes who might be cheating well ahead of their competitions.
David Sharpe, chief executive of the Australian Sports Anti-Doping Authority, said today that 2,600 tests were conducted on Australian athletes and 500 more on international athletes, some of whom were only at the qualifying stage for the April 4-15 games on the Gold Coast.
Dr. Mani Jegathesan of the Commonwealth Games Federation's medical commission said doping samples from Commonwealth Games athletes would now be stored for 10 years so they could be retested when new testing regimens became available.
09:28 Badminton | India's Srikanth Kidambi is in action against Sri Lanka's Niluka Karunaratne in men's singles round of 16. Kidambi is leading in game 1 (12-4).
09:26 Badminton | H S Prannoy beats Anthony Joe to reach the men's singles round of 16 quarter-final.
09:21 Shooting | Indian shooters Anjum Moudgil and Tejaswini Sawant will be firing for a medal in 50 metres rifle finals. They may open India's medal account for the eighth day at the Commonwealth Games 2018 at Gold Coast.
09:17 Table Tennis | Mouma Das is nect-to-neck with England's Tin-Tin Ho in women's singles round of 16.
09:14 Table Tennis | Manik Batra eases to the next round of quarter-finals in women's singles round f 16, while Madhurika Patkar loses to England's Kelly Sibley.
09:11 Arpinder Singh, Rakesh Babu qualifies for triple jump final at CWG Gold Coast
India's Arpinder Singh made the men's triple jump final after topping his group and finishing second overall in the qualifying round here today. The bronze-medallist from the 2014 Commonwealth Games qualified with an effort of 16.39m.
The national record-holer, whose personal best is 17.17m finished behind Dominica's Yordanys Garcia. Garcia was the only one to enter the final after achieving the qualifying mark of 16.75m. The other Indian in fray, A V Rakesh Babu qualified 12th for the same event with an effort of 15.98m.
Both the Indians will next be in action on April 14 during the final.
"My new Romanian coach (Bedros Bedrosian) for the last year has helped," Arpinder said of his qualifying performance. Arpinder is also banking on some family support to do well in the final. "I was so bad at the 100m, 200m and 400m that I decided to try triple jump and found my event. My cousin Andeep lives here on the Gold Coast, and he is here today to support me," he said.
09:07 Here's a quick recap of events at the Commonwealth Games 2018 so far:
> Arpinder Singh and Rakesh Babu qualifies for men's triple jump finals.
> Sushil Kumar qualifies for men's freestyle 74 kg final
> Rahul Aware qualifies for men's freestyle 57 kg final
> Babita Phogat qualifies in women's freestyle 53 kg Nordic finals
> Kiran qualifies for women's freestyle 76 kg semi-finals
09:00 Badminton | India's H S Prannoy is leading in game 1 21-18 in men's singles round of 16. Prannoy is up against Australia's Anthony Joe.
08:16 Squash | Indian squash pair of Joshna Chinappa and Harinder Ral Sidhu lead by 1 against New Zealand's Amanda Landers-Murphy and Zac Millar in mixed doubles of round 16.
08:11 Maharashtra govt announces cash rewards for CWG winners
The Maharashtra government on Wednesday announced cash prizes for those who bagged medals in the ongoing Commonwealth Games Gold Coast.
A release issued by the Chief Minister's office stated that Madhurika Patkar and Pooja Sahasrabuddhe, both from Thane, and Sanil Shetty have bagged gold in table tennis. Also, Chirag C Shetty of Vile Parle has bagged a gold medal in badminton. Besides, Heena Sidhu, who lives in the Mumbai suburb of Goregaon, has won a gold and silver medal in two categories of pistol shooting, it said.
The release stated that each gold medal winner will be rewarded with a cash prize of Rs 50 lakh, silver medallists with Rs 30 lakh and bronze winners will be awarded Rs 20 lakh each. Besides, their coaches shall be honoured with Rs 12.5 lakh, Rs 7.5 lakh and Rs 5 lakh, respectively for each gold, silver and bronze medal won by the players from the state.
Chief Minister Devendra Fadnavis and Sports Minister Vinod Tawde congratulated the winners.
08:00 Badminton | India's Pranaav Chopra and Sikki Reddy beats Singapore's Danny Bawa Chrisnanta and Jia Ying Crystal Wong to qualify for mixed doubles quarter-finals. Reddy and Chopra will join the pair of Satwiksairaj Rankireddy and Ashwini Ponnappa in the quarter-finals.
07:52 Wrestling | Sushil Kumar makes it to the men's freestyle 74 kg finals after defeating Australia's Connor Evans.
07:42 Wrestler Rahul Aware qualifies for men's freestyle 74 kg finals
Indian wrestler Rahul Aware qualifies for finals in men's freestyle 74 kg after defeating Pakistan's Muhammad Bilal.
07:39 Table Tennis | Sharath Kamal and Mouma Das notch a straight-games victory over David McBeath and Kelly Sibley to progress to the quarter-finals of the table tennis mixed doubles event.
07:35Wrestling | Aware is leading with a margin of one point against Bilal.
07:34 Wrestling | Indian wrestler Rahul Aware is in action against Pakistan's Muhammad Bilal in men's freestyle 74 kg semifinal.
07:24 Badminton | India's Pranaav Chopra and Sikki Reddy are in action against Singapore's Danny Bawa Chrisnanta and Jia Ying Crystal Wong.
07:19 Here is India's latest medal tally:
Gold - 12
Silver - 4
Bronze - 8
07:15 Indian wrestlers get easy wins in qualifying rounds
Indian wrestlers including Sushil Kumar, Babita Phogat, Rahul Aware and Kiran takes on their competitors well and qualify for the further rounds. Kiran moves on to the semi-finals of the women's 76kg freestyle event.
07:11 Table Tennis | Indian table tennis players Sutirtha Mukherjee and Pooja Sahasrabudhe win women's doubles round of 16 against Wales' Carey Charlotte and Thomas Chloe.
07:02 Badminton | Indian Badminton players SatwikRankireddy and Ashwini Ponnappa wins mixed doubles round of 16 against Canada's Kristen Tsai and Nyl Yakura.
07:02 Wrestling | Indian wrestler Kiran wins women's freestyle 57 kg quarter final against Cameroon's Danielle Sino Guemde. Kiran wins by technical superiority with points scored by the opponent.
06:59 Table Tennis | Indian Table Tennis players Sharath Kamal and Mouma Das are in action in round of 16 clash. The Indian duo win the first game against England's David McBeath and Kelly Sibley.
06:56 Wrestling | India's Rahul Aware wins men's freestyle 57kg quarter final against England's George Ramm.
06:52 Athletics | Arpinder Singh tops in Group B of qualifying round of men's triple jump after he jumps 16.39. Meanwhile, Rakesh Babu gives 15.98 performace. They both may qualify for the finals as their performances are amoung the top 12.
06:47 Badminton | India's mixed doubles pair of Satwiksairaj Rankireddy and Ashwini Ponnappa are in action against Canada's Kristen Tsai and Nyl Yakura in the round of 16 clash.
06:44 Wrestling | Sushil Kumar in action in men's freestyle 74 kg round of 16 bout
Indian wrestler Sushil Kumar is in action against Canada's 23-year-old Jevon Balfour in the men's freestyle 74 kg round of 16 bout.
06:36 Athletics | Purnima Hembram taking part in Heptathlon clocked her personal best time of 13.56 seconds. Hembram is at sixth position after 100m hurdles.
06:35 Shooting | Neeraj Kumar and Anish Bhanwala qualify for finals
Indian shooters Neeraj Kumar and Anish Bhanwala qualify for men's 25m pistol finals. Neeraj Kumar tops the standings with a score of 291 while Anish is in third place, one point behind England's Sam Govin who has 287 points.
06:26 Wrestling | Babita Phogat takes to the mat in 53kg Nordic wrestling against Nigeria's Bose Samuel. Samuel wins a technical point after Babita fails to win a point within her stipulated time, however, Phogat wins her first bout.
06:21 India's Babita Kumari (Wrestling), Arpinder Singh (Triple Jump), Rakesh Babu (Triple Jump), Maitreyee Sarkar (Table Tennis), Vaishnavi Sutar (Table Tennis), Anish and Neeraj Kumar (25m Pistol) are in action as of now.
06:13 Here's India's schedule on Day 8 of competitions at the 21st Commonwealth Games for today:
HOCKEY
Women's semifinals:
India vs Australia (1645 IST)
ATHLETICS
Women's Heptathlon 100m Hurdles, High Jump, Shot Put, 200m
Purnima Hembram (Beginning 0535 IST and through the day)
Men's Triple Jump Qualifying Round
A V Rakesh Babu and Arpinder Singh (0600 IST)
Women's Long Jump Final
Nayana James and Neena Varakil (1525 IST)
Women's Discus Throw Final
Seema Punia and Navjeet Kaur Dhillon (1610 IST)
BADMINTON
Mixed Doubles Round of 16
Satwik Rankireddy/Ashwini Ponappa vs Tsai Kristen/Yakura Nyl (Canada) (0630 IST)
Pranaav Chopra/N Sikki Reddy vs Chrisnanta Danny Bawa/Wong Jia Ying (Singapore) (0710 IST)
Women's Singles Round of 16
Ruthvika Gadee vs Jia Min Yeo (Singapore)
P V Sindhu vs Hsuan-Yu Wendy Chen (Australia) (0910 IST)
Saina Nehwal vs Jessica Li (Isle of Man)
Men's Singles Round of 16
H S Prannoy vs Anthony Joe (Australia)
Kidambi Srikanth vs Niluka Karunaratne
Men's Doubles Round of 16
Satwik Rankireddy/Chirag Chandrashekhar Shetty vs Lubah Aatish/Paul Christopher Jean (Mauritius)
Women's Doubles Round of 16
N Sikki Reddy/Ashwini Ponappa vs Ong Ren-Ne/Wong Jia Ying (Singapore)
TABLE TENNIS
Women's Doubles Round of 16
Sutirtha Mukherjee/Pooja Sahasrabudhe vs Carey Charlotte/Thomas Chloe (Wales) (0500 IST)
ManikaBatra/Mouma Das vs Kapugeekiyana Hansani/Madurangi Ishara (Sri Lanka) (0500 IST)
Mixed Doubles Round of 16
Achanta Sharath Kamal/Mouma Das vs David McBeath/Kelly Sibley (England) (0645 IST)
Sathiyan Gnanasekaran/Manika Batra vs Medjugorac Marko/Cote Alicia (Canada) (0720 IST)
Sanil Shankar Shetty/Madhurika Patkar vs Taucoory Rhikesh/Ho Wan Kau Elodie (Maurituius) (0720 IST)
Women's Singles Round of 16
Manika Batra vs Tracy Feng (Australia) (0755 IST)
Madhurika Patkar vs Kelly Sibley (England) (0755 IST)
Mouma Das vs Tin-Tin Ho (England) (0840 IST)
Men's Singles Round of 16
Achanta Sharath Kamal vs Heming Hu (Australia) (0925 IST)
Harmeet Desai vs Chee Feng Leong (Malaysia) (0925 IST)
Sathiyan Gnansekaran vs Segun Toriola (Nigeria) (1200 IST)
Men's Doubles Round of 16
Achanta Sharath/Sathiyan Gnansekaran vs Jayasingha Buwaneka/Ranasingha Imesh (Sri Lanka) (1325 IST)
Harmeet Desai/Sanil Shankar Shetty vs McCREERY Paul McCreery/Ashley Robinson (Northern Ireland) (1405 IST)
Women's TT6-10 Singles Group
Maitreyee Sarkar vs Ng Felicity Pickard (England) (0610 IST)
Vaishnavi Sutar vs Andrea McDonnell (England) (0610 IST)
WRESTLING
Women's Freestyle 53 kg Nordic
Babita Kumari vs Samuel Bose (Nigeria) (Starts at 0630 IST)
Men's Freestyle 57kg
Rahul Aware vs George Ramm (England)
Men's Freestyle 74kg
Sushil Kumar Jevon Belfour (Canada) (After 0600 IST)
SQUASH
Men's Doubles Pool F
Vikram Malhotra/Ramit Tandon vs Ernest Jombla/Yusif Mansaray (Sierra Leone)(0720 IST)
Mixed Doubles Round of 16
Dipika Pallikal Karthik/Saurav Ghosal vs Aifa Azman/Sanjay Singh (Malaysia) (0800 IST)
Joshna Chinappa/Harinder Sandhu vs Amanda Landers-Murphy/Zac Millar (New Zealand).
06:10 Good morning readers, this blog will keep a track of India's performance in the Commonwealth Games 2018.
Saina Nehwal defeated Isle of Man’s Jessica Li today. This was after Li retired from the match midway. Nehwal had won the first game 21-04 and was leading in the second game 2-0 when the play ended.
Nehwal will play Canada’s Rachel Honderich in the Quarter-Final.
The Maharashtra government today announced cash prizes for those who bagged medals in the ongoing Commonwealth Games Gold Coast.
A release issued by the Chief Minister's office stated that Madhurika Patkar and Pooja Sahasrabuddhe, both from Thane, and Sanil Shetty have bagged gold in table tennis.
Also, Chirag C Shetty of Vile Parle has bagged a gold medal in badminton. Besides, Heena Sidhu, who lives in the Mumbai suburb of Goregaon, has won a gold and silver medal in two categories of pistol shooting, it said.
The release stated that each gold medal winner will be rewarded with a cash prize of Rs 50 lakh, silver medallists with Rs 30 lakh and bronze winners will be awarded Rs 20 lakh each.
Besides, their coaches shall be honoured with Rs 12.5 lakh, Rs 7.5 lakh and Rs 5 lakh, respectively for each gold, silver and bronze medal won by the players from the state.
Chief Minister Devendra Fadnavis and Sports Minister Vinod Tawde congratulated the winners. (PTI)
Gold: 14
Silver: 07
Bronze: 10
Left: India's Babita Kumari won the silver medal in Women’s Freestyle 53kg Nordic, playing against Canada's Diana Weicker.
Right: Rahul Aware won the gold medal in men's freestyle 57kg wrestling on Thursday. (Images: PTI)
Grace Stewart scored for the Aussies. India will now play against England on April 14 for the bronze medal.
Australia have taken the lead with a goal by Grace Stewart (3rd Quarter).
Indian duo Dipika Pallikal and Saurav Ghosal have advanced to the Semi-Finals of the Squash mixed double's event even as compatriots Joshna Chinappa and Harinder Pal Sandhu crashed out of the CWG 2018 today.
The fifth seeded pair, who had a shaky pre-quarterfinal match against a Malaysian duo, was in terrific touch in the quarterfinal match against third seed Tesni Evans and Peter Creed of Wales.
The match witnessed a surfeit of rallies and eventually it was the skill in finding the corners and nick that mattered. Both Saurav and Dipika never left anything to chance and played with a lot of confidence to script a 11-8, 11-10 win and stun the fancied opponents.
They will face top seeds Joelle King and Paul Coll of New Zealand in the semifinals tomorrow.
Coll and King ousted the other pairing of Chinappa and Sandhu and even their best efforts could not help the Indians against the Kiwis.
To say that the New Zealanders managed to scrape through would be right, as the match could not have gone closer with the final score reading 11-10 11-10 in favour of Coll and King.
Men’s Squash update
Vikram Malhotra and Ramit Tandon continued their good work with a solid win over the Jamaican pair of Christopher Binnie and Lewis Walters 11-4 11-10 for a place in the men's doubles quarterfinals.
The Indian pair had got a walkover from Sierra Leone's Ernest Jombla and Yusif Mansaray in their last pool match.
Malhotra and Tandon will next face the fourth seeded pairing of England's James Declan and Willstrop James in the quarterfinals tomorrow. (PTI)
India’s Mouma Das has lost to Singapore's Mengyu Yu in the QF. Mouma lost 1-4 against the Singaporean.
India’s Seema Punia clinches a silver medal just ahead of NavjeetDhillon, who bags a bronze medal. Australia’s Dani Stevens has won the gold.
Seema made a massive throw of 60.41 m while Dhillion’s best today was 57.43 m.
Nayana James and Nellickal V Neena finish 10th and 12th respectively.
India’s Mouma Das trails Singapore’s Mengyu Yu 1-4. (Image: CWG 2018 website)
India vs Australia, Women’s Hockey Semi-Final witnesses no goals in the first quarter.
