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India lose to Iran again, women’s team fails to defend Kabaddi title

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August 24, 2018
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Traditional powerhouse India returned without a gold in kabaddi for the first time in the history of the Asian Games after Iran shocked their women’s team in the final to join their male counterparts in walking away with the top honours on Friday.

The men’s team had won seven straight titles while women’s were two-time defending champions at the Asian Games.

The Indian women led 13-11 at the halfway break but defensive errors in the second half cost the team dearly.

Iran enforced an all out on India in the second half but the Indian raiders were never that effective and played catching up game.

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After the change of ends, the Iranians scored six points in a row to take 17-13 lead with an all out.

With just two minutes to go, Sakshi Kumari earned two points with a successful raid to make it 24-25 but the Iranians held their nerves to prevail.

Iran raiders Sedigheh Jafari and Azdeh Saidisiahbidi were on fire today and it was their terrific show which tilted the match in their favour.

After the match, India’s coach L Srinivas Reddy said the men’s defeat did put pressure on the team.

“The men team’s defeat had come as a shock for me and the players. Somewhere it played in our minds. It created double pressure that we have to go back with a gold. The one who holds nerves win. It was a bad day for us. It’s time to prove again,” Reddy told reporters.

“We made a good start but one miss-tackle shifted the momentum. There were some technical mistakes and defensive errors from our side. The umpire also made a mistake. In all, it was not our day. But it was a good match, it was never one-sided,” he added.

At the start of the match, captain Payel Chowdhury and Sonali Vishnu were effective with their raids while the defenders also handled the tackles well as India raced to a 7-3 lead.

Iran’s coach Shailja Jain, who is an Indian, said she will head back to the country with pride.

“I had told them I don’t want to go back to India without a gold. I told them I don’t want any gifts but just gold. And they did it,” Jain said.

The most dangerous looking Iranian was Azadeh, who was forced out after a successful tackle by the Indians.

Randeep Kaur went for a raid after their opponent’s two-point raid but she was unsuccessful as Iran gradually reduced the deficit to 6-7.

Randeep though made amends in the next attempt with a two-point raid, pushing India ahead 13-8.

Azadeh then touched out Ritu and Manpreet, and Payel was caught by the Iranian defenders as India led 13-11 at the end of first half.

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