Women’s fours team of Rupa Rani Tirkey, Pinki, Nayamoni Saikia and Lovely Choubey assured India’s first-ever lawn bowls medal of Commonwealth Games history by reaching the final with a thrilling win over New Zealand in Birmingham on Monday.
#B2022 #CWG2022
— The Field (@thefield_in) August 2, 2022
The amazing scenes at the end of a historic semifinal win for Indian team in women's fours #LawnBowls 👏🏽
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Lawn Bowls Women's Fours |
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Pinki |
Lovely Choubey |
Nayanmoni Saikia |
Rupa Rani Tirkey |
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— The Field (@thefield_in) August 1, 2022
With the #LawnBowls Women's Fours - Semi-Final going on between India and New Zealand, here's a basic look at how scoring works in the event.
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The team will face South Africa in the gold medal clash on Tuesday.
“We cannot express our feelings in mere words. We have fought as a team and now our journey doesn’t end here,” Tirkey was quoted as saying by PtI. “We have to play in a similar fashion against South Africa and do what hasn’t been done before.”
🇮🇳 Creates History at @birminghamcg22 🔥
— SAI Media (@Media_SAI) August 1, 2022
India's #LawnBowl Women's Four team creates history by becoming the 1st Indian Team to reach the Finals of #CommonwealthGames
India 🇮🇳 16- 13 🇳🇿 New Zealand (SF)
They will now take on South Africa in the Finals on 2nd Aug#Cheer4India pic.twitter.com/tu64FSoi8R
The Indian team put on a stunning show against New Zealand to first fight back from 1-6 down and take a 7-6 lead. From there on it went back and forth. After End 14 too, India trailed by a point. But a stunning penultimate bowl in the final End by the captain Rupa Rani Tirkey put India in a great position by knocking off NZL’s closest bowl, and that gave India a whopping four points.
“When you achieve something after 10 long years, it’s like a dream come true” ♥️
— Olympic Khel (@OlympicKhel) August 2, 2022
- The Indian women’s fours lawn bowls team that created history at Commonwealth Games 2022 🙌#IndiaAtB2022 | #B2022 pic.twitter.com/VwKi9OmjAT

The team was overcome with emotions at the end after the historic feat.
#CWG2022 #B2022 #LawnBowls MEDAL ASSURED!
— Vinayakk (@vinayakkm) August 1, 2022
WOW! What emotions at the end. A SUPERB COMEBACK AND the team of Lovely Choubey, Pinki, Nayanmoni Saikia and Rupa Rani Tirkey currently defeat NZ to reach the Women's Fours final.https://t.co/KP9v4ylDpL pic.twitter.com/t8V6bk41sf
Another medal assured for India! Rupa Rani Tirkey with a clutch effort at the end and India edge out NZ in the semis. India are assured their first-ever #LawnBowls medal. They will now face SA for gold. What a match that was! Look at the emotions at the end 👏👏#CWG2022 pic.twitter.com/BAGnzRQy7k
— Aditya Chaturvedi (@aditya_c19) August 1, 2022