BIRMINGHAM: Australia gained the primary girls’s cricket gold medal in Commonwealth Video games historical past on Sunday as Scotland’s Laura Muir captured the 1500m identify at the last evening of athletics. At the penultimate day of festival in Birmingham, England’s girls gained hockey gold and Australia beat Jamaica within the netball last.

With only a few occasions to move on Monday, Australia cleared the path with 66 golds, 11 forward of hosts England. Scorching favorites Australia held their nerve to overcome India via 9 runs in a Twenty20 mystery in entrance of a large Edgbaston crowd. Opener Beth Mooney top-scored with 61 as Australia made 161-8 of their 20 overs within the heat sunshine. India gave the look to be not off course for a surprise win once they had been cruising at 118-2. However the dismissals of Jemimah Rodrigues (33) and captain Harmanpreet Kaur (65) sapped their momentum and so they fell frustratingly brief. Australia partied at the pitch because the lighting fixtures went out across the stadium.

“It’s completely massive,” mentioned left-arm spinner Jess Jonassen. “We’re blessed sufficient to be a part of some successful International Cup groups however to win the primary gold medal for girls’s cricket within the Commonwealth Video games, you’re simplest ever going to try this as soon as.” Victory underlines the dominance of Australia’s girls, who’re additionally global champions within the 20-over and 50-over codecs. Within the bronze medal fit previous on Sunday, New Zealand coasted to an eight-wicket win over England.

Muir gold

Muir ended her Commonwealth Video games marketing campaign with a flourish via successful gold within the 1500m on the Alexander Stadium. The 29-year-old’s team-mate, 10,000m champion Eilish McColgan, simply failed in her bid for memorable double, completing 2nd in the back of Kenya’s spectacular global silver medallist Beatrice Chebet within the girls’s 5,000m.

Muir, who gained bronze within the 800m on Saturday, kicked for glory sooner than the bell and ran a somewhat average field-lacking two-time Olympic champion Religion Kipyegon-ragged, timing 4min 02.75sec. The Olympic silver medalist was once extremely joyful, having didn’t medal in 2014 and lacking the 2018 Video games because of veterinary tests. “You be informed from it and your time will come,” mentioned Muir. “It sounds tacky nevertheless it’s true. 8 years of Commonwealths and it’s been bugging me so this implies so much.”

Wyclife Kinyamal defended his males’s 800m crown in a time of one:47.52. It was once an outstanding turnaround for the 25-year-old, who completed final within the last of the sector championships in July. “Eugene (the sector last) was once disappointing however it is only like all race,” he mentioned. “As a result of if these days you win, the next day to come you lose. “I assume as a result of I failed there, I appeared ahead to coming right here to shield my identify.”

New Zealand bicycle owner Aaron Gate gained the lads’s highway race to gather his fourth gold medal of the Commonwealth Video games. “3 felt nice and I used to be tremendous proud of that,” mentioned Gate, who gained 3 monitor occasions previous within the Video games. “I got here right here these days and controlled to lend a hand the crew, and if the chance arose to move for a fourth one I simply needed to grasp it with each palms.” Within the girls’s race, Australia’s Georgia Baker gained her 3rd gold of the video games.

England gained hockey gold for the primary time after retaining off a fightback from Australia to win 2-1. 2d-quarter targets from Holly Hunt and Tess Howard in the end equipped decisive 24 hours after the lads’s crew had suffered semi-final melancholy by the hands of Australia. Australia’s males, who’re six-time protecting champions, tackle India within the last on Monday. There was once extra pleasure for Australia within the netball festival, with a 55-51 over Jamaica within the last.

Australia additionally shone on the Sandwell Aquatics Centre, wrapping up the diving festival in taste. Cassiel Rousseau took the lads’s 10m platform identify and Maddison Keeney gained her 2nd gold of the video games within the girls’s 3m springboard. England’s Scrumptious Orie gained tremendous heavyweight gold on a hectic evening of boxing, beating India’s Sagar Ahlawat. India gained 3 different golds in boxing however Northern Eire took 5, together with a different double for Aidan Walsh and his sister Michaela. – AFP