CWG 2022 Day 10 Highlights: India win five gold, lose close cricket final

Commonwealth Games Day 10 Highlights: The Indian contingent bagged five gold medals on the tenth day. Three of those came in boxing, one in Men's Triple Jump and another in Table Tennis Mixed Doubles

Commonwealth Games 2022 Day 10 Highlights

The Indian contingent at the Birmingham 2022 Commonwealth Games bagged five gold medals on the tenth day of the event. Three of those five gold medals came in boxing. In Men's Triple Jump, India creates history by finishing one and two and another gold was won in Table Tennis Mixed Doubles by Achanta Sharath Kamla and Sreeja Akula. Indian women's cricket team lost a heartbreaking final against Australia to settle for a silver medal. 

Indian Boxers win three gold and a silver

Four Indian boxers Nitu Ghanghas, Nikhat Zareen, Amit Panghal and Sagar Ahlawat were to compete for the gold medal on the penultimate day of the Commonwealth Games 2022. Out of the four, three of them- Nitu Ghanghas, Amit Panghal and Nikhat Zareen won gold while Sagar had to settle for silver after a gruesome fight with his English opponent. 

Sharath Kamal wins gold and silver in Table Tennis

Achanata Sharath Kamal could have had four gold medals in this Commonwealth Games. He could still have three as he will compete in the Men’s Singles final on the last day of the games. But on the 10th day, he won gold in the Mixed Doubles event alongside his partner Sreeja Akula who had earlier in the day lost a seven-setter bronze medal match. 

Sharath Kamal himself was beaten in a five-set thriller in the Men’s Doubles by the English pair of Liam Pitchford and Drinkhall. He along with Sathiyan Ganasekaran got a silver medal. Sathiyan will also fight for bronze on the 11th and last day of the event.

Athletes continue to surprise, win gold and silver in Triple Jump

Indian athletes continue to pull out surprises. In the Men’s Triple Jump event, India’s Eldhose Paul jumped 17.03 meters while Abdulla Aboobacker followed with 17.02 meters as the duo finished one and two to win historic medals for India. Pravin Chithravel, the third Indian in the vent, finished fourth, narrowly missing out on a medal. 

Inspired by the silver from Priyanka Goswami in the Women’s 10,000 metres Race Walk, Sandeep Kumar won a bronze with a personal best timing of 39 minutes in the Men’s 10,000 metres Race Walk.

India women's cricket team lose a close final

The Indian women’s cricket team lost a close final to Australia. Chasing a target of 162, the Indian team, after struggling at 22/2 in the first four overs, and then getting to 118-2 and needing just 44 off 34 balls, went on to lose the game by nine runs after losing its eight wickets in the next 35 runs and 31 balls.  Harmanpreet Kaur’s brilliant 65 off 43 balls went in vain as India lost yet another final in the global arena. 

Savita leads India's women's hockey team to a deserving bronze

The India women’s hockey team came back from two shockers, the first of the controversial penalty shoot-out lost in the semi-final against Australia and then conceding a penalty strike in the last minute of the bronze medal match against New Zealand. 

After New Zealand women equalised with the strike and scored in the first shoot-out, it seemed like Indian women will once again finish without a medal after showing so much promise. But Savita Punia, the Indian goalkeeper and captain had other ideas as she saved each White Fern shot after that. Taking inspiration from her, Navneet and Sonika scored for India as the team won the match 2-1 in the Shootout after drawing it 1-1 in regulation time. 

Commonwealth Games Day 10 Highlights: Catch all the Indian athletes in action at Birmingham 2022 as they hope to secure more medals for the country