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The Indian team of Sudipti (up on Chinski), Divyakriti (Adrenalin Firfod), Hriday (Chemxpro Emerald) and Anush (on Etro) scored 209.206 percentage points to finish ahead of hosts China, who scored 204.882. Hong Kong China won the bronze medal with a score of 204.852.

Anwar pointed out that India need to work on their bowling skills in slog overs.

Neha, a 12th-pass student, who started sailing at the National Sailing School Bhopal, Madhya Pradesh at a very early age, finished second behind Noppassorn Khunboonjan of Thailand after 11 races in this category.

As Ashwin claimed three wickets in the Indore ODI, he went on to shatter an all-time record that was held by former India captain Anil Kumble.

The drag-flicker converted penalty corners in the 39th, 40th and 42nd minutes to complete his hat-trick after opening his account with a goal in the 24th minute of the Pool A encounter at the GSP Hockey Stadium here.

The women's cricket team defeated Sri Lanka in the final to win the gold medal in their first attempt. Smriti Mandhana and Jemimah Rodrigues stitched a crucial 73-run partnership, followed by young fast-bowling all-rounder Titas Sadhu bowling a deadly spell of 3-6 in four overs to help India beat Sri Lanka by 19 runs.

Lauding the gold-winning air rifle team, he said, "Our fantastic shooters from the 10m Air Rifle Men's Team, Rudrankksh Patil, Divyansh Panwar, and Aishwary Pratap Tomar have won the gold in truly awe inspiring manner as they did so while shattering the world record."

Modi saluted the champions for their fantastic display of skill and determination and wished that they keep reaching for new heights. 

Parminder and his partner Satnam Singh were placed second when the latter felt a twist in his neck and they eventually rolled in sixth and last.

The gold medal in Asian Games is a huge prize for the Indian women’s cricket team after enduring a heartbreak at last year's Commonwealth Games in Birmingham, England, where they ended up with the silver medal after losing to Australia.

India, who already have an unassailable 2-0 lead in the three-game series, will be boosted by the return of captain Rohit Sharma, Virat Kohli, Jasprit Bumrah and Hardik Pandya for the third ODI in Rajkot. 

India thus ended the rowing competitions at the 19th Asian Games in Hangzhou with five medals.

Rudrankksh shot 632.5, Tomar 631.6 and Panwar 629.6 to aggregate the world record score.

Australia were given the target of chasing 400 after Shubman Gill and Shreyas Iyer smashed sparkling centuries, hitting 104 and 105 respectively while sharing a 200-run partnership.

Arvind Singh and Arjun Lal Jat finished second behind a Chinese pair in Men's Lightweight Doubles Sculls at the Fuyang Water Sports Centre here in Hangzhou on Sunday to open India's medal account at the Asian Games.

Kaif pointed out a glaring error in Team India’s preparation and pointed out that the Men in Blue need to improve in that aspect. Otherwise, they may even loose the World Cup at home soil. As per Kaif, India still need to improve on their fielding.

Indian Women's cricket team on Sunday registered a convincing eight-wicket victory over Bangladesh here at Pingfeng Campus Cricket Field, to enter the final of the 19th Asian Games 2022.

After returning from an injury, which sidelined him for over four months, Rahul has been in terrific form.

Sehwag hailed Suryakumar after his knock, saying not many batters can create fear in the minds of the opposition.

India could be in line for a women's 10m air rifle individual medal as well, as Mehuli and Ramita also reached the eight-shooter final, which will be held later in the day.