Asian Games 2023 Day 2 Highlights: India win gold in 2 events, Pranati Nayak qualifies for vault final

The Indian women’s team will be looking to win gold when they face Chamari Athapaththu’s Sri Lanka in the final of the Asian Games 2023 cricket on Monday, September 24.

On Sunday, the Women in Blue defeated Nigar Sultana Joty’s Bangladesh by eight wickets in Hangzhou. Pooja Vastrakar picked up four to rock the Tigresses.

Most importantly, the Indian team is set to have their skipper, Harmanpreet Kaur, back. The captain did not play in the quarterfinals and semis due to the suspension that she served for her outbursts against the umpires on the tour of Bangladesh earlier this year.

Pranati Nayak is set to be in action in the qualification rounds of artistic gymnastics. Balraj Panwar will be looking to fetch a medal for India when he takes part in the finals of the men’s single scuffs in rowing.

Nyeman Wangsu will participate in the women’s chengquan final in wushu. In tennis, Rohan Bopanna, who recently became the oldest to a Grand Slam doubles final, will be in action. Bopanna will partner Yuki Bhambri in the men’s doubles.

In chess, the likes of Koneru Humpy and Vidit Gujrathi will be there in the men’s singles. Anish Bhanwala, Vijayveer Singh and Adarsh Singh will be looking to perform well in the qualification round of the 25 metre Rapid fire pistol event.

Jerome Kumar, Vishnu Saravanan, Harshita Tomar and Shital Verma and many others will take part in various sailing events.