Pakistan will face India in SAF Games hockey final today

Awais-Ur-Rehman scored the only goal that helped Pakistan win Gold Medal in the games.

Expectedly, the home side walloped their two rival teams in the league stage, thrashing Nepal 24-0 in their opening match before beating Sri Lanka 12-1.

India, the world’s second most populous nation, boasts of a population of 1.3 billion people.

The two wins have taken India’s gold medal tally to 119, and the overall medal count to 200.

With Tuesday’s haul, India have secured 10 gold and four silver medals in the archery competition. Rio 2016 Olympics bound top Indian woman Air Rifle specialist Apurvi Chandela won the gold easily in her 10-metre event.

BADMINTON Rising star Ruthvika Shivani created the biggest upset stunning PV Sindhu in straight games to win the women’s singles gold medal with India bagging seven gold and five silver medals from the badminton event of the South Asian Games.

Kuheli Ganguly bagged the gold with a total score of 619.9, while Lajja Gauswami and Anuja Jung grabbed the silver and bronze with 608.2 and 607.5 points, respectively.

In the mixed doubles event, Indian pair Deepika Kumari and Tarundeep Rai defeated the Sri Lankan team of Dilhara Salgado and Nipuna Senevirathne 6-0. Indians also won the gold in 4x200m freestyle for both men and women.

In men’s singles final tomorrow, India’s Saketh Myneni will take on Ramkumar Ramanathan. Raina easily beat Prerna Bhambri 6-1 6-0 in the final.

The Indians won all that came their way without even dropping a set and the famed doubles duo of Jwala Gutta and Ashwini Ponnappa beat Sri Lanka’s Chandrika De Silva and Nadeesha Gayanthi to ease into the semis.

Olympic medalist Gagan Narang added the one worldwide multi-sport event medal missing from his cabinet as Indian shooters went on to sweep all the Gold medals (five) on offer, on day two of the shooting competition at the XII South Asian Games being held simultaneously in Guwahati and Shillong.

The Sri Lankans were left bruised and battered as they could not resist the goal-hungry Indian girls who were coming from everywhere at the Moullana Tayabullah Hockey Stadium here.