It was an eventful evening in the Commonwealth Games (CWG) for the Indian contingent. The Women’s Fours Team beat South Africa 17-10 to win the historic Gold Medal in Lawn Bowls. This marked the fourth yellow metal for the nation in the ongoing Games. Earlier, India had emerged victorious over New Zealand 16-13 in the semi-finals.
The 38-year-old Lovely Choubey, the leader of the Indian team, is the constable with Jharkhand Police. Rupa Rani Tirkey works in the Jharkhand state sports department. Pinki works as a teacher in the DPS R K Puram in New Delhi. Nayanmoni Saikia hails from a farming family and works in Assam’s Forest department.
If talked about the game, the main motive of the player is to roll the ball and try to stop as closer to the smaller ball, also known as ‘Jack’ or ‘Kitty’. There are four categories in a Lawn Bowls game, namely singles, pairs, triples, and fours.
Generally, the first player to score 21 points wins in a singles game. In the four events, both teams can also decide mutually that the game will end after the culmination of a particular round. In the Finals, India and South Africa agreed to end the game after 15 ends.
Here are the Twitter reactions:
Historic , Golden & Proud Moment For India
& Commented By The Great @iSunilTaneja Sir#CWG2022 #LawnBowls 🇮🇳🇮🇳🇮🇳🇮🇳 pic.twitter.com/qczan5H4KC— KAPIL VERMA (@IKapil07) August 2, 2022
In a world, where most of us (Indians) don’t comprehend Lawn Bowls, Our girls have just bagged a #GoldMedal for us. Amazingly unbelievable!! Kudos to their hard work and equanimity. #LawnBowls #CWG2022 #IndiaTaiyaarHai #India4CWG2022 pic.twitter.com/U6Vxb1YxUF
— Vijay KR (@vijjuzone) August 2, 2022
Bharat 🇮🇳Mata ki Jai is an emotion !!
There eyes says it all what 🥇medal means to them ..
The struggle they have gone through to achieve this .
Hats off to you guys 👏
Billion Indians 🇮🇳 proud of u…
Thank you !#LawnBowls #CommonwealthGames #CWG2022 pic.twitter.com/DulWQClGt4
— Soug (@sbg1936) August 2, 2022
A Historic Gold for India in #CommonwealthGames Lawn Bowls!
Absolutely ecstatic that our Women's Fours Team – Lovely Choubey, Pinki , Nayanmoni Saikia & Rupa Rani Tirkey has fetched the nation its first ever #LawnBowls medal defeating South Africa 17-10 in the final ! pic.twitter.com/8Pbio6W0qB
— Anurag Thakur (@ianuragthakur) August 2, 2022
These Lawn Bowls ladies have bowled India over! Historic Gold 🏅🇮🇳 Congratulations and well done 👏🏽👏🏽 #LawnBowls #CWG2022 pic.twitter.com/99UPs6PbSv
— Wasim Jaffer (@WasimJaffer14) August 2, 2022
Lovely Choubey, Pinki, Nayanmoni Saikia, and Rupa Rani. Well done. Trendsetters. #LawnBowls.
— Harsha Bhogle (@bhogleharsha) August 2, 2022
