India gets gold in Badminton , Cricket , wins in kabaddi after controversy, surpasses 100 medals

 

India completes Asian Games 2022 with an all time high of 107 medals comprising of  28 Golds , 38 Silvers and 41 Bronze .

Last day had success in Kabaddi , cricket , Badminton and women's Hockey Bronze .

Indian girls won women hockey bronze beating Japan  2-1 after a hard fought battle . 

Chirag Shetty and Satwiksairaj Rankireddy won gold in men's doubles.   They won gold in this event for the first time in the Asian Games.  Chirag & Satwik   defeated the South Korean pair in straight sets.

 Indian pair  won the match in 57 minutes.  They won the first game by 21-18 and  won the second game 21-16. The Indian pair is number three in the world ranking.   Chirag and Sateik  became the first Indian pair to win the Asian Games after 58 years.  They won medals in this event after 1982.

 India's best success in Badminton at the Asian Games this year.  Apart from gold in boys' doubles, India also won silver in the team category and bronze in boys' singles.  India won a silver and a bronze in 2018.  They won five bronze medals in 1982.

After the women, the men's kabaddi team also won gold in the Asian Games.  India defeated Iran in the final.  The result is 33-29 in favour of the Indian team.  With this, India won 103 medals including 28 gold in the Asian Games.  However, Saturday's final was full of drama.

 From the beginning of the match, there was a fierce fight between the two teams.   It was not clear which team would win the gold.  But the biggest play came with 1 minute and 3 seconds left in the game.  Both teams had 28 points.  With 1 minute and 30 seconds remaining, 'do or die' was announced.  Pawan went to Red at that time.  He went out of touch before touching an Iranian player.  Chasing after Pawan, one of the Iranians went off the line.  He was touched by three other teammates.  As a result India should get three or four points according to the old rules.  According to the new rules, both teams are supposed to get one point.  Because of which one of Iran's defenders walked out of the court by himself.  The referee initially gave three points to India.  One point to Iran.  After watching the replay, he changed his decision and decided to give one point to both teams.  It was then that the Indian players objected.

The Iraqi referee, Malaysian and Sri Lankan umpires could not decide.  The root cause of the problem was that the rules are not communicated properly before the game starts.  Naturally, the Indian team insisted on the old rules and Iran demanded points under the new rules.  The referees and umpires could not make a decision even after watching replays.  Neither India nor Iran agreed to accept their arguments.  In the end, the Secretary General of the Asian Kabaddi Association had to intervene.  He decided to give both teams a point after watching the replay.  But the coach of the Indian team protested.  The Secretary General of the Asian Kabaddi Association tried to convince but the Indian camp did not agree.  Indian players sat on the court in protest.

 As India did not want to play, the referee and umpires started discussing again.  Replays are reviewed.  The match officials were practically forced to retreat in front of the stubborn stand of the Indian camp.  Again 4 points are given to India and 1 point to Iran.  The Iranian camp strongly protested after this decision was announced.  Their players also sat on the court not wanting to play.  Both parties stand firm in their position.  As the umpires did not clarify the rules before the start of the game, they were in trouble.  They could not impose a decision on any party for their own mistakes.

 In this situation, it was decided to suspend the game.  Discussions begin to determine which rules will be followed.  The leaders of the Asian Kabaddi Association, the match officials and the organizers spoke and decided that since the rules were not specifically communicated before the start of the game, the old rules were eventually followed.  Consequently, accepting Iran's objection, India was awarded 3 points and they were awarded 1 point.  Although the Iranian players were not happy with this decision, they did not walk the path of strong protest.  India secured the victory by picking up 2 more points in the last few seconds.  Iran got no more points.

India  won gold in mens' cricket.  India won the 27th gold in this year's Asian Games.  More medals are likely.  The match was abandoned due to rain.  India won the gold due to being ahead in the rankings.

 The Indian men's team blew out Bangladesh in the semi-finals.  But the final could not be completed.    The match started 20 minutes late due to rain.  India send Afghanistan to bat.  Afghanistan scored 112 runs in 18.2 overs before play was stopped in rain.  They lost five wickets.  There the game was stopped due to rain.

 Shahidullah scored 49 runs for Afghanistan.  He remained undefeated.  Gulbadin Naiv also remained unbeaten.  He remains unbeaten on 27 runs and was looking good .  Arshdeep Singh, Shivam Dubey, Shahbaz Ahmed and Ravi Bishnoi took one wicket each for India.

Due to rains it was not possible to finish the  match.  So after the girls the boys also won the gold.  

Meanwhile  Pakistan could not win the bronze as they were upstaged by Bangladesh in the match for the bronze . In reply to Pakistan's 48 in 5 overs  , Bangladesh who were given a Duckworth Lewis target of 65 in 5 overs , won in sensational style scoring 20 runs in the  last over and 4 off last ball in an epic finish.