Team India celebrate winning badminton team gold medal. (Source: Reuters)
CWG 2018, India vs Malaysia Mixed-team badminton: Indian mixed badminton team claimed its maiden Commonwealth Games gold medal, thrashing three-time defending champions Malaysia in the final in Gold Coast on Monday. The pair of Satwik Rankireddy and Ashwini Ponnappa claimed the mixed doubles match against Peng Soon Chan and Liu Yong Goh 21-14 15-21 21-15, before Kidambi Srikanth stunned three-time Olympic silver medallist Lee 21-17 21-14 in straight games. Men’s doubles pair of Rankireddy and Chirag Shetty lost to Goh and Wee Kiong Tan 15-21 20-22. This led to Saina Nehwal helping India to the historic gold with a 21-11 19-21 21-9 win over Soniia Cheah in the women’s singles match. Here are the highlights:
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And the Indian flag flies high as the Indian shuttlers receive their gold medals. Another good day at the CWG. India's gold medal-tally now reaches 10.
Kashyap praises the coaching staff for the historic CWG medal!
Here is a shout-out to all the fans present at the Sports Arena cheering India on
With the win, India gets their first-ever Gold in team badminton at the Commonwealth Games. A great show throughout the tournament by team India. Reactions have started coming in.
Saina Nehwal wins the super-intense, crucial women's singles match against Malaysia's Cheah 21-11, 19-21, 21-9. And with that India win their first badminton team event GOLD in the Commonwealth Games 2018.
What a rally! What a great rally! And with that she earns 20 points, more than 10-point lead and is a point away from winning the match.
And Saina is back in her no-mercy mode. She is now in a hurry to end this game, taking 16-9 lead. Oh Saina, you beauty!
Saina goes to the mid-game break with 11-9 lead. Banking on Saina for her rich experience
Saina makes it 7-7. Then Cheah makes it 8-8. The intensity of the match makes Saina smile as Cheah tests the Indian shuttler.
Neither of the two are ready to let their opponent enjoy lead for a long time! Cheah steals the lead back from Saina after an amazing rally
Cheah's smash goes out! Saina takes 5-3 lead as thousands of Indians cross their fingers during the thrilling decider
Another intense game underway. Saina, Cheah are neck-to-neck at 2-2 in the decider. Cheah puts Saina to test.
The super-intense game ends with Cheah winning 21-19 against Saina. Match goes into decider
The game is getting too intense. A great smash from India and the game is level at 19-19
Game level at 18-18 after Cheah took medical time-out. An intense match underway as both the shuttlers reply to a point with a point.
Cheah takes lead after the medical time-out. She leads Saina by three points. Is this looking to go into decider?
Cheah is being treated for a cut by the medical team. Both the players get some rest and the crowd gets reason to scream at the top of their lungs
Saina Nehwal goes into the mid-game break with 11-10 lead. A couple of errors cost her crucial points. The Indian shuttler now needs to extend the lead.
Great comeback from Cheah, who has found back her fighting spirit, as she bridges the point gap between them to one. India 9-8 Malaysia.