Hangzhou [China], October 6 (ANI): India’s dream of 100 medals within the nineteenth Asian Games might be fulfilled because the athletes have already claimed 91 medals and are assured of strolling away with 9 extra.
India have already assured 9 medals in numerous occasions which embody cricket, compound archery, kabaddi, hockey, badminton and bridge.
The Indian males’s cricket workforce will face Afghanistan within the closing on Saturday. Led by Ruturaj Gaikwad, the ‘Men in Blue’ might be aiming to safe one other gold within the cricket after girls’s workforce defeated Sri Lanka to assert the honours.
In badminton, India’s star duo of Satwiksairaj Rankireddy and Chirag Shetty have additionally assured no less than a bronze medal within the males’s doubles occasion. They will face the Malaysian pair of Aaron Chia and Soh Wooi Yik within the semi-final in a while Friday.
Coming to hockey, India’s males’s workforce will face Japan for the gold medal on Friday night and can look to seal their place for Paris Olympics as effectively.
In one of many oldest sports activities in Indian historical past – kabaddi, each males’s and ladies’s workforce will compete for the gold medal towards Iran and Chinese Taipei respectively on Saturday.
In the compound archery occasion three medals have been assured with Indian archers Abhishek Verma and Ojas Pravin Deotale competing for gold medal in males’s particular person occasion. While Jyothi Surekha Vennam might be in motion within the girls’s particular person occasion preventing for a gold medal on Saturday.
Finally, the lads’s workforce additionally assured a silver within the Bridge occasion which is able to take India’s tally to 100 medals. (ANI)