Asian Games 2023 : Abhay Singh showed amazing composure in an ups and downs match and achieved the biggest victory of his career by defeating Noor Zaman, helping India defeat arch-rival Pakistan in a thrilling match in the men's team squash event of the Asian Games on Saturday. Won the gold medal.

Did this feat after 8 years

Before the start of the tournament, the Indian men's team was expected to remain at the top position after 8 years, with the biggest challenges facing it being Malaysia and Pakistan. The team led by Saurav Ghoshal was successful in overcoming the challenge of both these rivals and winning the gold.

Against Pakistan, India had lost to the arch-rival in the league stage. Zaman (ranked 113) had defeated world number 69 Abhay in the league stage match and on Saturday too, the Pakistani player was looking dominant for most parts of the match.

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The hero of the day was Chennai's Abhay

After Nasir Iqbal's victory in singles, Ghoshal was successful in leveling the score at 1-1, due to which the gold medal was to be decided by the match between Abhay and Zaman. The hero of the day was Chennai's Abhay, who showed amazing composure in a roller-coaster decider to defeat Zaman 3-2.

Zaman was leading 9-7 in the fourth game and 10-8 in the deciding game. But Indian player Abhay somehow came back and registered a memorable victory in the 64-minute marathon match with the scores of 11-7, 9-11, 8-11, 11-9, 12-10. After this victory he threw his racket in the air.

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The defeat from Pakistan was avenged

Earlier, the experienced Ghoshal led India back into the contest with a 3-0 (11-5, 11-1, 11-3) win over Mohammad Asim Khan as Mahesh Mangawankar lost to Iqbal Nasir in the opening match by the same margin (8-11, 2-11. 3-11). In this way, India avenged the defeat suffered by Pakistan in the league stage.

India had won the men's team squash gold medal at the Incheon 2014 stage while Pakistan had last won the gold medal at Guangzhou 2010.

Ghoshal is playing his sixth Asiad and will now focus on winning his first gold medal in the individual event. He has won three bronze and one silver medal in singles from the Busan 2002 Asian Games.

Superfast News Coverage By YuvaPatrkaar.com Team

Publish Date : September 30, 2023

Posted By Ravi Kumar

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