Latest Updates: After the men's hockey team crashed out of the competition in the semi-final, the women's hockey team have a shot at winning the gold with their final later on in the day at 6:30pm. After overcoming China with a narrow 1-0 victory in their own semi-final, they would be hoping to go all the way. Read More Catch all the action from day 13 of Asian Games through our live blog.After the men's hockey team crashed out of the competition in the semi-final, the women's hockey team have a shot at winning the gold with their final later on in the day at 6:30pm. After overcoming China with a narrow 1-0 victory in their own semi-final, they would be hoping to go all the way. Aug 31, 2018 20:13 (IST) so India have 65 medals now, tied with 2010 for the highest total haul ever at an #AsianGames - and a few more on the cards.. — Gaurav Kalra (@gauravkalra75) August 31, 2018 Aug 31, 2018 19:51 (IST) Suprita Das, Senior Journalist: Silver then it is for India after a gritty and determined Japan didn’t allow them to score that second equalizer even till that very last minute chance that India missed. Indian players looked a little off position in the last quarter, while Japan managed to keep ball possession as much as possible. India failed to make a concentrated move, and by the end of it looking frustrated as a result of it. REMINDER: Japan qualified for the Olympics as its hosts automatically, but India DO NOT qualify on the basis of being finalists here. It’s a complex route of qualification tournaments from here to Tokyo sadly. Aug 31, 2018 19:51 (IST) SILVER MEDAL!! Full time: India win the Silver medal after losing the final 2-1 against Japan. India had won the Bronze in 2014 Asian Games. Aug 31, 2018 19:45 (IST) Less than four minutes left and Japan are doing a fantastic job of running down the clock and giving the Indians no chance of taking the attack to them. Aug 31, 2018 19:42 (IST) Five minutes left in the game and India are looking down and out! Aug 31, 2018 19:40 (IST) Not some thing the All India Mahila Congress will remember fondly. That's the 2014 relay team who are in the pic for a congratulatory post for the 2018 relay girls Heartiest Congratulations to women's 4 X 400m Relay team on winning Gold medal at #AsianGames2018. pic.twitter.com/QKThDltUYa — All India Mahila Congress (@MahilaCongress) August 30, 2018 Aug 31, 2018 19:38 (IST) Ten minutes left in the tie here against Japan for India. Can they pull this back and make something out of it? India so far in the final quarter have not been playing well and Japan have dominated the game. Aug 31, 2018 19:33 (IST) India have another 15 minutes to pull things back in the final. Aug 31, 2018 19:33 (IST) Suprita Das, Senior Journalist : Some excellent and never-seen-before variation from the Japanese gives them the lead through a penalty corner. The Indians have made more interceptions and it’s been a great quarter otherwise for us, but they need to create PCs and soon! Aug 31, 2018 19:31 (IST) End of the third quarter: India trail 1-2 against Japan. Aug 31, 2018 19:30 (IST) GOAL: Japan have used a variation in a PC towards the end of the third quarter and that worked! Motomi scored from the move and India now trail 1-2 with a quarter to go. Aug 31, 2018 19:25 (IST) Five minutes left in the third quarter, and India have created a couple of panics in the Japan defense, but not enough to find a second goal as yet and edge ahead. India still playing in front of Japan and have not found spaces beyond the Japanese back line. Aug 31, 2018 19:20 (IST) Five minutes into the third quarter, and not much has changed in terms of how the teams are playing. India continue to loose the ball easily, while Japan have been more comfortable on it. Great interception by Reena produced an opening for India but they could not convert that after a scramble inside the D Aug 31, 2018 19:16 (IST) In the first two quarters, India were guilty of losing possession easily and cheaply. They will need to sort that out fast. Aug 31, 2018 19:14 (IST) We are ready for the second half. The Indian team will be aware of the penalty shootouts in the past and will hope to avoid that. Aug 31, 2018 19:09 (IST) India in the first half have had more shots and the numbers say they have been more attacking than Japan, who have been emphatic and looked dangerous every time they have attacked. Here's a look at some of the stats: Aug 31, 2018 19:06 (IST) Suprita Das, Senior Journalist: Great counter attack from India finally and Neha Goyal’s deflection equalizer which was desperately needed because it would have been frustrating post half time and the errors would have crept in had they been trailing. Japan’s defence has been rock solid which means India have failed to penetrate a few times. So 1-1 at halftime and tough to pick the better side! Aug 31, 2018 19:05 (IST) Half Time: India and Japan are locked at 1-1 with half an hour to go in the final. Aug 31, 2018 19:04 (IST) We are nearing the end of the second quarter in the match and India and Japan are locked 1-1 and in a battle of attrition. Neither looking convincing in attack as yet. Aug 31, 2018 19:01 (IST) Japan though playing a far more robust and gutsy game against the Indian team in this final. This is not going to be an easy ride even though they have fought back well in the second quarter with the equaliser. Aug 31, 2018 18:59 (IST) GOAL! India have equalised after Rani Rampal's shot has been deflected in by Neha Goyal. It's 1-1 after that fantastic countera-attack with 5 minutes leftin the quarter. Aug 31, 2018 18:56 (IST) The Indian attackers have been stitching more passes together as they look to equalise in the final against Japan. Fortunately for Japan though, the play is in front of them and it's easier to deal with as a defending unit in that case. Japan have done well to keep the open spaces to a minimum and make sure India have to work extremely hard to get through for a goal. Aug 31, 2018 18:53 (IST) Japan finding it easier than India to go through the opposition defences as they look to double their lead. India's defense have been called in to make desperate saves in the last few minutes. India will need to recharge their batteries and find a Plan B Aug 31, 2018 18:50 (IST) India have started the second quarter looking to attack and the Japanese women are defending deep and in numbers as they look to close the spaces for the Indians. Aug 31, 2018 18:47 (IST) Suprita Das, Senior Journalist: India probably needed that wake-up call because despite some great passing and speedy hockey, the defense has largely been napping. Japan have already qualified for the Olympics but there’s no drop in intensity from them. Rani should have got that rebound goal at the start, hopefully that won’t cost us Aug 31, 2018 18:47 (IST) End of the first quarter: India and Japan have both been entertaining in the first 15 minutes but have failed to be decisive in open play. Japan took the lead from a penalty corner and lead 1-0 with three quarters to go. Aug 31, 2018 18:45 (IST) India try to respond with Vandana shooting on the turn and aiming for the corner. But the shot is well off target and India continue to trail 0-1 Aug 31, 2018 18:43 (IST) GOAL! Right after India's missed PC, Japan have their own penalty corner with less than five minutes to go. And Japan have found the back of the net as Minami poked it in past Savita Punia.<doc-sep>India had a great outing in athletics on Day 12 as they exceeded all expectations for its best Asian Games performance in close to seven decades but heartbreak in hockey took some sheen off the country’s sprint past the previous edition’s medal haul. The seasoned Jinson Johnson and the women’s 4x400m relay team were the joint stars with their golden show on the final day of the track-and-field competition in which India signed off seven gold, 10 silver and two bronze medals, the country’s best haul since 1951. India surpassed its previous edition’s overall tally of 57 by making it 59 with two more days of competition left. The country also took its gold tally to 13, two more than 2014. Here’s a look at the Asian Games 2018 Day 13 India schedule here - BOXING 4:30pm: Men’s light fly 49kg semi-final (Amit v Carlo Paalam of Philippines) 6:00pm: Men’s middle 75kg semi-final (Vikas Krishan v Abilkhan Amankul of Kazakhstan) BRIDGE 8:00am: Men’s pair semi-final 3 followed by finals (Pranab Bardhan/Shibhnath Sarkar, Sumit Mukherjee/Debabrata Majumder, Subhash Gupta/Sapan Desai) 8:00am: Women’s pair semi-final 3 followed by finals (Marianne Karmarkar/Hema Deora, Aparna Sain/Feroza Chothia) 8:00am: Mixed pair semi-final 3 followed by finals (Bachiraju Satyanarayana/Kiran Nadar, Rajeev Khandelwal/Himani Khandelwal) CANOE/KAYAK SPRINT 7:30am: Canoe single (C1) 200m women heats (Meera Das) 7:50am: Kayak single (K1) 200m women heats (Ragina Kiro) 8:10am: Kayak single (K1) 200m men heats (Naocha Singh Laitonjam) 8:30am: Canoe double (C2) 200m men heats (Jamesboy Singh Oinam/ Prakant Sharma) CYCLING TRACK 7:42am: Men’s keirin heats (Ranjit Singh, Esow Alban) DIVING 12:25pm: Men’s 3m springboard preliminary (Ramananda Sharma Kongbrailatpam) NB: Final of the event is to be staged on the same day. HOCKEY 6:30pm: Women’s tournament gold medal match (India v Japan) JUDO 7:42am: Men’s -100 kg elimination round of 16 (Avtar Singh v Ivan Remarenco) 8:36am: Women’s +78 kg quarterfinal (Rajwinder Kaur v Akira Sone of Japan) ROLLER SKATE 12:30pm: Men’s road 20 Km race final (Harshveer Singh Sekhon, Amitesh Mishra) 1:30pm: Women’s road 20 Km race final (Varsha Sriramakrishna Puranik, Aarathy Kasturi Raj) SAILING 10:30am: 49er men race 15 (Varun Ashok Thakkar/ Kelapanda Chengappa Ganapathy) 10:35am: 49er FX women race 15 (Varsha Gautham/Shweta Shervegar) 10:35am: Laser Radial race 12 (Nethra Kumanan) 10:40am: Open Laser 4.7 race 11 (Govind Bairagi, Harshita Tomar) 10:40am: Mixed RS One race 15. NB: All races are medal events. SOFT TENNIS 7:30am: Men’s team preliminary (India v Cambodia) Time not given: Men’s team preliminary (India v Indonesia) Time not given: Men’s team preliminary (India v Japan) 7:30am: Women’s team preliminary (India v Mongolia) Time not given: Women’s team preliminary (India v Republic of Korea) Time not given: Women’s team preliminary (India v Thailand) TABLE TENNIS 9:30am: Men’s singles round of 16 (Achanta Sharath Kamal v Chihyuan Chuang of Chinese Taipei) 10:30am: Women’s singles round of 16 (Manika Batra v Wang Manyu of China) VOLLEYBALL 7:30am: Women’s tournament classification 9 – 10 (India v Chinese Taipei)<doc-sep>Gold 13, Silver 21, Bronze 25 Medals won on Day 12: Gold 2, Silver 1, Bronze 2 Gold: Silver: Bronze: Hima Das, MR Poovamma, Saritaben Gayakwad, Vismaya Koroth (women's 4x400m relay) and Jinson Johnson (men's 1500m)Muhammed Kunhu, Dharun Ayyasamy, Muhammed Anas Yahiya, Arokia Rajiv (men's 4x400m relay)Seema Punia (women's discus throw) and Chitra Unnikrishnan (women's 1500m)India won five medals on Day 12, all of which came from the track and field arena. The haul took India's medal tally to 59 medals on Thursday, which included 13 gold, 21 silver and 25 bronze.The quartet of Hima Das, MR Poovamma, Saritaben Gayakwad and Vismaya Koroth gave India second gold of the day as they won the women's 4x400m relay event.Middle-distance specialist Jinson Johnson gave India its 12th gold medal at the 2018 Asian Games in Indonesia, by winning the men's 1500m event on Thursday. Johnson had earlier won a silver medal in 800m event, finishing second behind compatriot Manjit Singh in a rare 1-2 finish for India. But Manjit failed to add another medal as he finished fourth in the 1500m event.In men's 4x400m relay, India's Muhammed Kunhu, Dharun Ayyasamy, Muhammed Anas Yahiya, Arokia Rajiv won silver after finishing behind Qatar, who broke the Asian Record with a timing of 3:00.56. Indian team clocked 3:01.85 to add one more medal from the track and field events.Athletics gave India two more medals on Day 12 as seasoned campaigners Seema Punia and PU Chitra won bronze in their respective events. Punia won the bronze with a best throw of 62.26m in women's discus throw, while Chitra bagged the third spot in women's 1500m.<doc-sep>
India's gold count could see another boost on Friday, with the women's hockey team looking to carry their winning momentum into the final against Japan. Judoka Avtar Singh, who has an Asian Open bronze in Chinese Taipei this year, will also be in action in the men's -100kg category. There could also be top-two finishes confirmed in sailing, boxing and squash. Moment of reckoning for Indian women's hockey MB Media/Getty Images India have never played successive Olympics in women's hockey, but that record could be up for grabs for Rani Rampal's team when they face Japan for the gold medal on Friday. India are in the final for the first time since 1998, and must show greater efficiency from penalty corners than they did in the 1-0 win against China in the semis, with Gurjit Kaur converting one of seven. Losing won't help India's Olympic qualification -- Japan will go through as hosts, and the continental spot will be freed up for the other qualifying competitions leading to Tokyo 2020. Women's final, India v Japan, 6:30 PM onwards Can Amit and Vikas salvage some boxing pride? Alex Livesey/Getty Images Only eight Indians have managed to win a gold in boxing in 16 previous editions of the Asian Games that have included the sport. Vikas Krishan is one of those eight men and could join Hawa Singh as the only Indian with two golds at the Asian Games. Amit Panghal, who won silver at the Commonwealth Games in Gold Coast this year, could become the first Indian man to enter the light flyweight finals when he takes on Philippines' Carlo Paalam. Men's 49kg semifinals, Amit Phangal, 4:45 PM onwards Men's 75kg semifinals, Vikas Krishan, 6:00 PM onwards Could sailing provide a rare gold? Jonas Warrer, Varun Thakkar, and KC Ganapathy are confident of a good showing at the 2018 Asian Games Varun Thakkar and KC Ganapathy Friday will see the final races, and podium finishes, in 10 separate categories across men's, women's, mixed and open events. India's only Asian Games gold came in the now-discontinued fireball event in 1982, through Farokh Tarapore and Zarir Karanjia. India have an interest in five categories left, though the medal prospects are strongest in the women's 49er FX, open laser 4.7, and maybe even the men's 49er. Harshita Tomar won race 11 in the open laser 4.7, and lies in third place ahead of compatriot Goving Bairagi going into the final race. The women's pair of Varsha Gautham and Sweta Shervegar are in silver medal position after 14 races of the 49er FX, while KC Ganapathy and Varun Thakkar could have been higher than fourth, but for disqualification in their 14th race. 49er men - Race 15, 49er FX women - Race 15, Laser radial - Race 12, Open laser 4.7 - Race 12, Mixed RS One - Race 15, 10:30 AM onwards Squash medals -- but of what hue? Ryan Pierse/Getty Images The squash men and women have lived up to form and made it through to the semifinals of the team events. The women face favourites Malaysia -- it was Nicol David and teenager Sivasangari Subramaniam who denied both Dipika Pallikal and Joshna Chinappa a shot at gold -- while the men face Hong Kong. Women's semifinals, India v Malaysia, 9:30 AM onwards Men's semifinals, India v Hong Kong, 2:30 PM onwards (With inputs from Mohit Shah)