Manika Batra and Mouma Das won silver in the women’s doubles for India in the Commonwealth Games.

Manika Batra and Mouma Das fought hard before going down against defending champions Feng Tianwei and Yu Mengyu to settle for a silver medal in the women’s doubles, a first ever for India in the Commonwealth Games.

Batra, who had led India to a historic triumph in team championship, could not do the same alongside Das on Friday. Tianwei and Mengyu came well prepared to counter Batra’s variations with the pimpled rubber and cruised to a 11-5, 11-4, 11-5 victory.

A silver nonetheless was a remarkable result for the Indian team which could not make the final



in the past four Games.

Prior to the final, India’s best showing in women’s doubles came back in 2010 when Das and Poloumi Ghatak had secured bronze.

In the bronze medal play-off, the Malaysian combine of Ying Ho and Karen Lyne got the better of India’s Sutirtha Mukherjee and Pooja Sahasrabudhe 15-13, 11-7, 8-11, 11-7.

It has been a stellar run for Indian paddlers in the quadrennial event as the men’s team won the gold for the second time and their women counterpart clinched the yellow metal for the first time in Games’ history.