Aichi-Nagoya [Japan], September 23 (ANI): India’s ladies’s hockey staff continued its goal-scoring spree on the Aichi-Nagoya Asian Games 2026, thrashing Thailand 20-1 of their Pool B match on the Kawasaki Juko Stadium on Wednesday.
Deepika led the cost with 9 targets, whereas Navneet Kaur scored 4 and Rutuja Dadaso Pisal added three. Lalremsiami, Neha, Sakshi and Salima Tete additionally discovered the web as India registered their third consecutive emphatic victory within the competitors, in keeping with ESPN.
India dominated possession, holding the ball for 61 per cent of the match, and scored in each quarter. The staff netted six targets within the first quarter, 5 within the second, 5 within the third and 4 within the last quarter.
Thailand’s solely purpose got here by way of Samanso Supansa within the 57th minute.
India had earlier opened their marketing campaign with a 19-0 win over Uzbekistan, with Deepika scoring eight targets and Ishika finishing a hat-trick. They adopted it up with a 17-goal efficiency towards Indonesia earlier than including 20 towards Thailand.
The Indian staff will subsequent face hosts Japan on Friday earlier than taking up Singapore on Sunday of their remaining Pool B matches.
In different outcomes on Wednesday, India’s males’s kabaddi staff defeated Bangladesh 48-25 to register their third consecutive group-stage win, whereas the ladies’s staff beat Iran 37-23 for his or her second straight victory.
India additionally loved a productive day in particular person occasions. Olympic medallist Mirabai Chanu gained silver within the ladies’s 49kg weightlifting class with a mixed elevate of 198kg, whereas Jay Meena secured the nation’s first-ever Asian Games medal in gentle tennis, claiming bronze within the males’s singles.
India’s skeet groups additionally gained bronze medals in each the boys’s and ladies’s occasions. The ladies’s trio of Raiza Dhillon, Parinaaz Dhaliwal and Maheshwari Chauhan completed third with 331 factors, whereas the boys’s staff of Anantjeet Singh Naruka, Mairaj Ahmed Khan and Bhavtegh Singh Gill secured bronze after successful a shoot-off towards Kazakhstan.
In squash, Abhay Singh superior to the boys’s singles Round of 16 with a 11-1, 11-0, 11-2 win over Thailand’s Arkaradet Arkarahirunya. Tanvi Khanna additionally progressed within the ladies’s singles after defeating Kim Dami.
India’s rowers and canoe sprinters continued to progress by way of the heats, with a number of athletes and groups qualifying for finals and semi-finals. (ANI)