Key events
Men’s singles table tennis: The first game has gone 13-11 to Liam Pitchford of England against India’s Sharath Kamal Achanta. The final is the best of seven.
Incidentally, all those worries about spelling Andrea Spendolini Sirieix correctly earlier, and then it turns out I keep typing Pritchford by mistake here.
Gold for New Zealand in the women’s doubles squash!
Women’s doubles squash: As looked likely, Joelle King and Amanda Landers-Murphy have wrapped that squash gold medal up 11-8, 11-8. England’s Sarah-Jane Perry and Alison Waters will have to be content with silver.
Waters will be thoroughly sick of the sight of King, who also beat her in the final when they were both part of mixed doubles pairings earlier in Birmingham 2022.
Men’s hockey: Australia have taken the lead in the gold medal match. Blake Govers with the goal. It has been a dominant display from the Aussies so far – India don’t yet have a shot to their name in this match as we near the end of the first quarter.
Women’s doubles squash: New Zealand are looking well-placed for gold here. Joelle King and Amanda Landers-Murphy won the first game 11-8 and lead 9-6 in the second over England’s Sarah-Jane Perry and Alison Waters.
Bronze for India’s Sathiyan Gnanasekaran in the men’s single table tennis
Men’s singles table tennis: Heartbreak for Paul Drinkhall who staged comeback after comeback after comeback but ended up coming just short. The medal goes to Sathiyan Gnanasekaran of India who wins *draws deep breath* 11-9, 11-3, 11-5, 8-11, 9-11, 10-12, 11-9
Both of them have at least the consolation that they won a gold earlier in the games.
Next up in the table tennis is the men’s gold medal match, which will see India’s Sharath Kamal Achanta matched up against Liam Pitchford of England.
Men’s hockey: Australia and India have started the gold medal match. Australia are the defending champions, ranked #1 in the world, and have sailed through this tournament unbeaten having staged a massive comeback against England in the semi-final. They must be overwhelming favourites you would think. India are ranked fifth in the world.
Men’s singles table tennis: At one point he was 7-1 down, but Drinkhall has staged a mini-rally in this deciding game and the lead of India’s Gnanasekaran has been cut to 8-7. Barnstorming stuff this, which it is getting a rapturous reception from a very partisan crowd.
Men’s singles table tennis: Absolute scenes from Paul Drinkhall here who was 3-0 down but has taken the match to a deciding seventh game with an incredible comeback. Is the momentum with him to clinch the bronze?
Men’s singles table tennis: The bronze medal match is tightly poised here. 10-10 in the sixth game, with India’s Sathiyan Gnanasekaran leading 3-2 over Paul Drinkhall of England overall. Drinkhall needs to win this game to take it to a decider.
Just checking down my list of what we’ve still got coming up, and I can promise you:
Badminton – men’s doubles gold medal match and women’s doubles match. That all appears to be running late there at the NEC.
Hockey – in about 15 minutes Australia’s men will face India’s men for gold.
Squash – the women’s doubles final is a New Zealand v England affair, followed by an all-England men’s doubles final.
Table Tennis – the men’s singles bronze match is ongoing, I’ll update you on that in a second, and then there is the men’s singles final.
Bronze for Scotland in the men’s doubles squash!
Men’s doubles squash: It turned out to be fairly straightforward for the Scottish pairing of Greg Lobban and Rory Stewart who have won the bronze medal 11-10, 11-6 in the end against their Malaysian opponents.
Gold for India’s Lakshya Sen in men’s singles badminton!
Men’s singles badminton: The medals keep coming. Lakshya Sen of India throws his racket into the crowd – surely a bit naughty – as he wins the third game and takes the gold medal.
Fifth seed Tze Yong Ng won the first game but couldn’t close it out, and finishes with silver. It has been a gripping hour and twenty minutes of badminton.
Gold and silver for England in the mixed synchronised 10m diving!
Mixed Synchronised 10m Diving: Noah Williams and Andrea Spendolini Sirieix have simply excelled in this today and take the last gold medal in the pool at Birmingham 2022 by some margin, 14.52 points.
In second it was English team-mates Kyle Kothari and Lois Mae Toulson.
The bronze medal came down to a tussle between Australian and Malaysian teams, but it was Cassiel Emmanuel Rousseau and Emily Ann Boyd of Australia who took bronze.
Men’s singles badminton: It is 18-14 to Lakshya Sen of India in the third game, but Tze Yong Ng of Malaysia has just spent some time on the floor injured. He is up again, but moving quite awkwardly.
Men’s singles badminton: Lakshya Sen of India is 15-10 up in the third game of the gold medal match against fifth seed Tze Yong Ng of Malaysia, who had a storming first match but who appears to have faded a bit. I would not bet against the second seed now.
Mixed Synchronised 10m Diving: Noah Williams and Andrea Spendolini Sirieix have extended their lead after the fourth dive. They are now 16.44 points ahead of their team mates. The Australian pair of Rousseau and Boyd are third. It will take a calamity to stop the gold going to England, surely?
Mixed Synchronised 10m Diving: After three rounds it is an England one-two in the diving competition. Noah Williams and Andrea Spendolini Sirieix, which is a great name to have to keep carefully typing out on a live blog of a fast-moving sporting event, are three points ahead of Kyle Kothari and Lois Mae Toulson.
Men’s singles table tennis: There is a bronze medal match going on between Sathiyan Gnanasekaran of India and Paul Drinkhall of England, and it is Gnanasekaran who is having the best of it so far. He leads 5-4 in the third game, having taken the first two 11-9, 11-3. It will take a big effort from Drinkhall to get back into this.
Men’s doubles squash: It is the Scottish pair who have the edge so far in the hunt for the bronze medal, winning the first game 11-10. But Malaysia are currently making a strong start to the second game, leading 3-1.
Men’s singles badminton: Lakshya Sen of India is second seed in this tournament, up against the fifth seed Tze Yong Ng. Having lost the first match, India’s Sen has put an incredible run together and from 6-8 down wins the second game 21-9. Ng has got to pull himself back together mentally you feel here.
Diving Mixed Synchronised 10m Platform: The first round of dives are complete in the final contest in the pool. The Malaysian pair of Jellson Jabillin and Pandelela Pamg lead after the first round, 1.80 points clear of England’s Noah Oliver Williams and Andrea Spendolini Sirieix. Cassiel Emmanuel Rousseau and Emily Ann Boyd of Australia are third. That’s a long old way, isn’t it, a 10m dive?
Here is a quick recap of how the medal table stands as we go into the very last sports of this event. Australia are leading with 66 gold and 176 medals overall. England are second in the table with 55 golds among their 168.
There is quite a gap down to third place, with Canada sitting there on 26 golds among their 92 medal haul.
India are fourth, with the same number of golds – 19 – as fifth-placed New Zealand, but with eight medals more overall. India still have a chance to pick up a couple more golds yet today.
Scotland are placed sixth with 13 golds, Nigeria seventh with 12. Wales, South Africa and Northern Ireland make up the rest of the top ten.
And a big shout-out to Malta, Nauru, Niue and Vanuata, who are all tied in fortieth place with one bronze medal finish each. That is only the second time ever that Vanuata has picked up a medal, and boxer Duken Tutakitoa-Williams won Niue’s first ever Commonwealth Games medal at the sixth time of asking.
Men’s singles badminton: The first game of the gold medal match has taken 31 minutes and been extremely tightly fought, and finally Tze Yong Ng of Malaysia takes it 21-19 from Lakshya Sen of India. The Malaysian is after a second gold here, after he was part of the wining Malaysian team earlier in these Games.
Men’s doubles squash: The bronze medal match is next up in the squash court. Rory Stewart and Greg Lobban of Scotland will face Eain Yow Ng and Chee Wern Yuen of Malaysia.
Lobban was involved in one of the stories of the Games earlier this week when he got knocked out at the quarter-final stage of the mixed doubles contest by an Australian pairing that featured his wife Donna Lobban.
Hello, Martin Belam here. The gradual outbreak of World War III over the last few days means I’ve ended up doing a lot fewer stints on the Commonwealth Games live blog than I expected. But I am back here for the final day. We should have some more badminton, hockey, squash and table tennis all going on in the next couple of hours.
Righto, that’s me done for today and these Games, but here’s Martin Belam to guide you through the next bit. Ta-ra!
James Heatly & Grace Reid win gold for Scotland in the mixed synchronised 3m springboard diving!
Keeney & Li, the hot favourites, take silver for Australia, and Puteh & Sabri the bronze for Singapore. Cutmore & Bent-Ashmeil of England must settle for fourth.
Synchronised diving: …ach, poor Bent-Ashmeil. She can’t stay straight, which means…
Synchronised diving: Heatly & Reid are still in front and are guaranteed the silver; only Cutmore & Bent-Ashmeil can relieve them of gold, who are on the board now…
Tianwei Feng & Jian Zeng win gold in the women’s doubles table tennis!
They beat Minhyung Jee & Jian Fang Lay of Australia 11-1 11-8 11-8.
Synchronised diving: Keeney & Li do a fair job of their final effort – in comms they think it’s enough for gold, though entry isn’t that good – but it’s not! They’re penalised for insufficient synchronisation, and Heatly & Reid are still in the gold-medal position! Can England’s Cutmore & Bent-Ashmeil overtake them?
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