Asian Games 2026: Women's cricket brings India's first gold - Highlights
Badminton, Men’s Team Quarterfinals: Sen equalise
It’s an easy-peasy second game for Lakshya Sen. Naraoka has offered little resistance in the closing stages, with Sen racing to a 19-4 lead.
Soon he takes the second game 21-5. On to the deciding game now!
Cricket, India W v/s Sri Lanka Final: India post a mammoth 216/3
This is a stunning, stunning effort from India. They were the favourites for gold medal and they have batted like it.
Shafali Verma (29-ball 48), Smriti Mandhana (45-ball 79), Richa Ghosh (49* off 22) all wielded their willows like sword as the women in blue post the highest total ever at the Asian Games!
IND: 216/3 (20)
Soft Tennis, Women's Singles Group Stage: Aadhya Tiwari bows out finishing second in group
Aadhya Tiwari's Asian Games campaign came to an end as she bowed out in the group stage of women's singles. She finished second in Group D, with only the group winner advancing to the next round.
She had started her campaign with a 1-4 defeat to Thailand's Alisha Ziegler in the first match and then defeated Pakistan's Kainaat Shallwani in straight games.
Badminton, Men’s Team Quarterfinals: Sen off to a stable start
Lakshya starts off better in teh second game with a 3-1 lead and then extending it to 8-2.
Badminton, Men’s Team Quarterfinals: Sen down by a game
Naaroka take the first game 21-11. This is not the start India or Lakshya Sen was hoping for. He now needs to win the next game to remain in the match.
Badminton, Men’s Team Quarterfinals: Lakshya Sen trailing by a big margin
Lakshya Sen is looking the plot early on in the first game. He is trailing 8-17.
Cricket, India W v/s Sri Lanka Final: Smriti Mandhana on a roll
Smriti Mandhana is on a roll after India opted to bat first in the women's cricket gold medal match.
She is currently batting on an unbeaten 79 off 44 with seven sixes! Smriti Mandhana in action during the 2026 Asian Games Final (Photo credit: PTI)
IND: 163/3 (16.5 overs)
Badminton, Men’s Team Quarterfinals: India v Japan LINE UP!
Match 1: Lakshya Sen v Kodai Naraoka
Match 2: Satwiksairaj Rankireddy/Chirag Shetty v Takuro Hoki/ Yugo Kobayashi
Match 3: Ayush Shetty v Koki Watanabe
Match 4: Hariharan Amsakarunan/MR Arjun vs Kakeru Kumagai/ Hiroki Nishi
Match 5: Kidambi Srikanth vs Yushi Tanaka
Fencing, Women's Epee Individual Round of 32: Taniksha Khatri wins; Mitva Chaudhari loses
Taniksha Khatri registered a 15-10 win in the round of 32 against Thailand's Natpapat Sangngio to progress to the next stage.
She is the only Indian fencer to progress to the last 16 today, as other Indian Epee fencer Mitva Chaudhari lost a very close bout to China's Jingwen Yang, 14-15.
Khatri will next take on Song Sera of South Korea.
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