CWG 2022: Win, win, win, win and win again… Indian shutterlers put Pakistan to shame after beating 5-0

On the first day of Birmingham Commonwealth 2022, the Pakistani team was shattered like a pack of cards in front of the storm of Indian shuttlers. In their first team match at the 22nd Commonwealth Games, there was no sweating in a 5-0 clean sweep over Pakistan. The pair of B Sumeeth Reddy and Machimanda Ponnappa registered a one-sided victory over Muhammad Irfan Saeed Bhatti and Ghazala Siddiqui 21-9, 21-12 in a mixed doubles match at the National Exhibition Centre. With this, India started its winning campaign in Badminton.

After the success of the mixed pair, it was now time for the singles, where Pakistan’s Murad Ali was completely stacked against India’s star Kidambi Srikanth. In this men’s singles match, Kidambi showed the way out by defeating Pakistani shuttler Murad Ali easily 21-7, 21-12.

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After Kidambi, Pakistani players could not face the storm of India in women’s singles as well. For India’s star shuttler and Olympic medalist PV Sindhu, beating Pakistan’s Mahur Shahzad became a left-handed sport. Sindhu had no problem defeating Mahur Shahzad in this women’s singles match. Sindhu registered a stunning 21-7, 21-6 win against Mahur. After this, India’s fourth match was played in the men’s double. In this match too, Pakistan had to face defeat.

In the men’s doubles, the pair of Satwiksairaj Rankireddy and Chirag Shetty presented their challenge for India. In front of the challenge were Murad Ali and Mohammad Irfan Sai Bhati who were defeated by Rankireddy and Chirag Shetty 21-12, 21-9.

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The last badminton match of the day was in women’s doubles between India’s Trisha Jolly and Gayatri Gopichand in which they defeated Pakistani pair of Mahur Shahzad and Ghazala Siddiqui 21-4, 21-5.