CWG 2018: Ghosal-Pallikal settle for silver in mixed doubles squash

Saurav Ghosal and Dipika Pallikal settled for silver medal in the mixed doubles squash event of the 21st Commonwealth Games on Sunday by defeating home favourites Donna Urquhart and Cameron Pilley 0-2 (8-11 10-11).

The duo became the first Indian pair to win a medal in the squash event. Pallikal will again fight for the gold medal alongside Joshna Chinappa in women's double as they won in straight games 2-0 (11-10, 11-5) to seal their place in the final.

After winning the silver Pallikal questioned the referees and told PTI, "Shocking decisions were made during the final. I felt it could have changed whole scenario of the match if those decisions were fair. But that's sport."

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The crowd was expectedly supporting the locals and Pallikal feels the quality of refereeing too did not help their cause.

Five-time World Champion Sarah Fitz-Gerald, who was commentating on the final, felt the refereeing was fine but the officials should have used more technology.

"I can understand Dipika is upset but refereeing was not a major issue for me. The issue was not using the technology enough to check whether the ball double-bounced or hit the tin, basically to correct close calls.

"It was used in the singles but they did not use it much for the doubles. I would say referees had to be hard in their approach otherwise it would have led to umpteen let points making the sport uninteresting," Sarah said.