India’s men’s and women’s kabaddi teams started their Asian Games campaign on a positive note, winning their respective games here on Sunday.
In the first match of the day, Indian men out-muscled Bangladesh 50-21 and then overpowered Sri Lanka 44-28 in the second match.
India will now face South Korea on Monday
The Indian women, on the other hand, also had a successfull outing, crushing Japan 43-12 to underline their superiority in the competition.
The Indian women’s basketball team had a disappointing outing as it lost 61-84 to Chinese Taipei at the 18th Asian Games here on Sunday.
This was India’s second defeat in the group stage, having earlier lost to Kazakhstan 61-79.
In the Group A match, India trailed 28-33 at the half time after having led for some time at the GBK Basket Hall.
Their encouraging show in the first half, however, came to nought as Chinese Taipei raced away with the game in the second half.
The results:
Badminton: Team: Men: India bt Maldives 3-0
Basketball: Chinese Taipei bt India 84-61.
Handball: Women: China bt India 36-21.
Hockey: Women: India bt Indonesia 8-0.
Kabaddi: Men: Indian bt Bangladesh 50-21; India bt Sri Lanka 44-28, Women: India bt Japan 43-12
Sepak Takraw: Women: Team Regu: Korea bt India 3-0
Shooting: 10m air rifle mixedeam: Bronze : Apurvi Chandela & Ravi Kumar.
Volleyball : Women: Korea bt India 3-0 (25-17, 25-11, 25-13).
Tennis: Mixed Doubles: Karman Kaur Thandi & Divij Sharan Marian Jane Capadocia & Alberto Jr Lim (Philippines) 6-4, 6-4.
Swimming: 200m butterfly: Sajan Prakash 5th (1:57.75s); 100m backstroke: Srihari Nataraj 100m 7th (56.19s)
Wrestling: 65kg: Final: Bajrang Punia bt Takatani Daichi (Jap); 57kg 1/8: Nazarov Rustem (Turkmesitan) bt Sandeep Tomar 12-8; 74kg: Sushil Kumar lost to Adam Batirov (Bah); 97kg: Quarterfinals: Ibragimov Magomed (Uzbekistan) bt Mausam Khatri 8-0; 86kg: Quarterfinals: Yazdanicharati Hasssan (Iran) bt Pawan Kumar 11-0.