CWG 2022 Live: Lawn Bowls at CWG- Indian women’s Lawn Bowls players created history on Monday as they confirmed the nation’s first-ever medal in the sport by reaching the final of the Women’s Fours event by defeating New Zealand in the semi-final. Follow CWG 2022 Live updates on InsideSport.IN
CWG 2022 Live: Indian lawn bowls players create history, reach finals of Women’s Fours event by defeating mighty New Zealand
This win is a huge upset as India has confirmed its first-ever medal by defeating a side that has 40 medals in the sport and is among the five most successful Lawn Bowls teams. They defeated New Zealand by a margin of 16-13.
🇮🇳 Creates History at @birminghamcg22 🔥
India’s #LawnBowl Women’s Four team creates history by becoming the 1st Indian Team to reach the Finals of #CommonwealthGames
India 🇮🇳 16- 13 🇳🇿 New Zealand (SF)
They will now take on South Africa in the Finals on 2nd Aug#Cheer4India pic.twitter.com/tu64FSoi8R
— SAI Media (@Media_SAI) August 1, 2022
The India quartet consisting of Lovely Choubey, Pinki, Nayanmoni Saikia and Rupa Rani started with a 0-5 trail in the semi-final. It kept its nerves and fought back to gain a 7-6 lead which eventually widened to 10-7.
From that point, there was no looking back for India as they kept scoring points and won the match.
India will now face South Africa in the final of the Women’s Fours event.
CWG 2022 Live: Indian lawn bowls players create history, reach finals of Women’s Fours event by defeating mighty New Zealand
Earlier on Sunday, India’s Lawn Bowls men’s pairs team of Dinesh Kumar and Sunil Bahadur progressed to the quarterfinals of their event after a win over England in their Section C match.
With this victory, India finished at the second spot in the Section C table with three wins and a loss. After a loss to Malaysia in the first game, they went on to win against the Falkland Islands, Cook Islands and England. England were the table toppers with three wins and a loss.
Tania Choudhary on the other hand broke her losing streak in Lawn Bowls by defeating Shauna O’Neill of Northern Ireland by 21-12 after 19 ends. Despite winning the match, she will not be in the quarter-finals as she had registered three straight losses against Dee Hoggan (Scotland), Arthur Almond (Falkland Islands) and Laura Daniels (Wales) previously.
Commonwealth Games 2022 started in Birmingham from July 28 and will go on till August 8.
CWG 2022 Live: Indian lawn bowls players create history, reach finals of Women’s Fours event by defeating mighty New Zealand
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