Mumbai (Maharashtra) [India], October 4 (ANI): AIMIM chief Waris Pathan on Sunday celebrated India’s gold medal-winning efficiency in males’s cricket on the Asian Games 2026, saying the victory over arch-rivals Pakistan had made the achievement much more particular.
Reacting to India’s triumph, Pathan mentioned the victory was a second of immense pleasure and pleasure.
‘It is a second of immense pleasure; our hearts are swelling with pleasure, Chak De India! India has received the gold medal, and the gold is coming dwelling. The environment was already joyful, however the happiness is even higher when India defeats Pakistan to win,’ Pathan informed ANI.
India defeated Pakistan by 19 runs within the males’s cricket closing to clinch the gold medal on the Asian Games 2026.
The males’s victory accomplished India’s golden double in cricket, after the ladies’s staff had earlier defeated Sri Lanka by 147 runs within the ladies’s closing.
The males’s staff was powered by contributions from Abhishek Sharma, Tilak Varma and Axar Patel to safe the gold medal.
India signed off from the Aichi-Nagoya Asian Games with 85 medals, together with 21 gold, 27 silver and 37 bronze, ending fourth within the general medal standings.
The nation’s marketing campaign was highlighted by a clear sweep of gold medals throughout cricket, kabaddi and hockey, with Indian groups profitable all six gold medals within the males’s and girls’s competitions in these three sports activities.
In kabaddi, the ladies’s staff defeated Iran 37-34 within the closing to efficiently defend its title, whereas the lads’s aspect got here from behind to beat Iran 40-34.
The males’s kabaddi gold was India’s ninth in 10 editions because the sport turned a males’s staff occasion on the Asian Games in 1990. The solely exception got here in 2018, when India received bronze.
The ladies’s kabaddi staff has remained dominant because the sport was launched to the ladies’s programme in 2010.
Hockey additionally produced a historic double for India. The ladies’s staff ended a 44-year await an Asian Games medal by defeating China 1-0 within the closing, with Lalremsiami scoring the decisive objective within the tenth minute.
It was India’s first ladies’s hockey gold on the Asian Games since 1982.
The males’s hockey staff then defeated Malaysia 5-1 within the closing to efficiently defend its Asian Games title. It was India’s fifth males’s hockey gold after earlier victories in 1966, 1998, 2014 and 2022.
The victories additionally marked the primary time that India’s males’s and girls’s hockey groups received gold medals on the similar version of the Asian Games.
With their respective victories, each Indian hockey groups secured qualification for the Los Angeles 2028 Olympic Games.
India’s 85-medal haul was beneath its report 106 medals, together with 28 gold, on the Hangzhou Asian Games in 2023, however the Aichi-Nagoya marketing campaign featured a number of record-breaking performances, first-time podium finishes and historic particular person achievements.
China topped the general medal standings with 341 medals, together with 169 gold, adopted by hosts Japan with 269 medals, together with 83 gold. South Korea completed third with 150 medals, together with 39 gold. (ANI)