Smriti Mandhana, Jemimah Rodrigues Cheer For Indian Football Team At Asian Games 2023. Watch | Asian Games News

Indian ladies’s cricket group stars Smriti Mandhana, Harmanpreet Kaur and Jemimah Rodrigues had been there to cheer the Indian males’s soccer group as they confronted China within the opening match of their Asian Games marketing campaign. In a video posted on Mandhana’s account, Jemimah and Harmanpreet might be seen cheering on the stadium and he or she even confirmed the sport on the large display. India misplaced 1-5 to China however that might dampen the help proven by the Indian supporters. The Indian ladies’s cricket group will begin their marketing campaign within the quarterfinal match towards Malaysia on Thursday.

A severely-fatigued and under-prepared Indian group obtained a impolite actuality examine with hosts China out-muscling them 1-5 in a gap group league encounter of the Asian Games soccer competitors.

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India’s high ladies cricketers Smriti Mandhana, Harmanpreet Kaur, Jemimah Rodrigues and Devika Vaidya turned as much as help the boys’s soccer group at present.

That’s the enjoyable of multi-sport occasions, no?

[ via Smriti’s IG]#AsianGames pic.twitter.com/xMBWehxGrt

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Giao Tianyi (seventeenth min), Dai Weijun (51st min), Tao Qianglong (72nd and seventy fifth minute) and Hao Fang (90 2) scored for the hosts, whereas Rahul KP’s (45 1 minute) equaliser from an acute angle was presumably the most effective strike of the match.

It was heartening to see a third-string group holding the title contenders on an excellent keel through the first 45 minutes, which noticed Indian custodian Gurmeet Singh Chahal valiantly save a spot-kick taken by rival captain Zhu Chenjie.

India now have to beat Bangladesh and Myanmar of their remaining two video games to qualify for the second spherical. Myanmar beat Bangladesh 4-2 in one other recreation on this group.

Having reached the Games Village late on Monday night, the third-string Indian group, with not even 4 specialist defenders of their ranks, did not have sufficient co-ordination amongst themselves. They seemed jet-lagged, not rested sufficient and there was no method that there might have been a miracle.