India at Asian Games, Oct 1, live updates: Hockey team trails to Korea; Kynan, Zoravar in trap final

Badminton, Men’s team final, India vs China: This is the first time the Indians have secured a medal in the men’s team event since the 1986 Asian Games, and they’re gunning for gold. Ahead of them though, is a strong Chinese team, and the Indians are without HS Prannoy.

In the opening rubber of this best-of-three match tie, Lakshya Sen takes on world No 6 Shi Yu Qu. Then there is the titanic clash between world No 3 team of Satwiksairaj Rankireddy/Chirag Shetty, and China’s world No 2 team of Liang Wei Keng/Wang Chang.

In the third match, Kidambi Srikanth faces world No 8 Li Shi Feng.

Should it come to it, the fourth match will be the men’s doubles match between world No 42 team of MR Arjun/Dhruv Kapila and world No 8 Liu Yu Chen and Ou Xuan Yi. The fifth rubber – the decider, if it comes to it, will be between world No 53 Mithun Manjunath and world No 20 Weng Hong Yang.

Hockey, women’s Pool A, India 0-1 South Korea, Q3: This has been a lacklustre performance from India today. They have been slower to react and a bit tentative on the ball at times. The forwards have also not been on fire in...

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