New Delhi: India’s Sunil Bahadur claimed silver medal while the pair of Krishna Xalxo and Lovely Choubey won silver in mixed pairs even in the just concluded sixth Asia Pacific Merdeka Cup Lawn Bowls Championship organized by Malaysian Lawn Bowls Federation. The tournament was held from October 3-8 at Bayuemas Indoor Bowls Stadium at Kuala Lumpur. Indian team also won bronze in mixed triples. The team members were Sunil Bahadur, Krishna Xalxo and , Lovely Choubey.
Pinki, Chandan Kumar Singh and Tania Choudhary were also member of the India team.
Chandan Kumar Singh lost to Sunil Bahadur in Men Singles in quarterfinal. The Indian team lost semifinal of mixed triple against Malaysia by one point while in mixed pairs India again lost to Malaysia in final by two points. All the matches were closely contested match.
Hosts Malaysia and India other participating countries were world number one Australia, New Zealand, China, Singapore, Thailand, Hong Kong and Phillipines.