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The list of India’s medal winners at the Gold Coast games Gold (26) Saina Nehwal   clinched women’s singles gold   in badminton. Boxer   Vikas Krishan   wins gold in   75kg category   at Commonwealth Games. Manika Batra   wins gold in   table tennis women's singles ,   becoming the first Indian woman to do so. Vinesh Phogat   wins gold in   women’s wrestling freestyle 50 kg Nordic event . Neeraj Chopra   became the first Indian   javelin thrower   to claim a gold medal at the Commonwealth Games. In the   52kg Boxing   event   Gaurav Solanki   won gold. In wrestling,   Sumit Malik   claimed the gold medal in the   men’s freestyle 125 kg . Sanjeev   Rajput   won gold in   50m Rifle 3 Position shooting   event. M.C. Mary Kom   won   45-48 kg category boxing event , claiming gold in her debut Commonwealth Games. Bajrang...

Virat Kohli, Mirabai Chanu, Hima Das among others who received high honours Indian cricket captain Virat Kohli, and weightlifter Saikhom Mirabai Chanu, the first Indian to win gold at the World Championships in more than two decades, received the Rajiv Gandhi Khel Ratna award on Tuesday, the highest sporting honour in the country. Here is the full list of the awards given in various categories by President Ram Nath Kovind at the National  Sports Awards. Rajiv Gandhi Khel Ratna 2018 Name of the Sportsperson Discipline Mirabai Chanu Weightlifting Virat Kohli Cricket Dronacharya Awards 2018 Name of the Coach Discipline Subedar  Chenanda Achaiah  Kuttappa Boxing Vijay Sharma Weightlifting A. Srinivasa Rao Table Tennis Sukhdev  Singh  Pannu Athletics Clarence Lobo Hockey (Life Time) Tarak Sinha Cricket (Life Time) Jiwan Kumar Sharma Judo (Life Time) V.R. Beedu Athletics (Life Time) Arjuna Awards 2018 Name of the Sportsperson Disci...

Shikhar Dhawan and Rishabh Pant smashed the bowling apart as India chased down the score. On view was brutal force. The ball was bludgeoned to different corners of the ground. And India sealed another run-chase ...but only after a scare. The Delhi duo of Shikhar Dhawan and Rishabh Pant, both left-handers and both explosive, cut loose when the match seemed in the balance. Then came a twist in the tale. Pant (58) was castled by Keemo Paul and it boiled down to five runs off the last over from left-arm spinner Fabian Allen. It became one off three when Allen, holding his nerve, delivered a dot ball and had Dhawan (92) caught in the deep off the fifth. With a single needed off the last ball, Manish Pandey and Dinesh Karthik scampered for a single. What a finish! It was a dramatic last-gasp conclusion but eventually the blitzkriegs from Dhawan and Pant enabled India complete a 3-0 sweep of the West Indies in the T20I series at the M.A. Chidambaram Stadium on Sunday. T...