India bagged four gold, one Silver and three bronze medals’ in the Commonwealth Games yesterday to take their overall medals tally to 24 Gold, 17 Silver and 17 Bronze.’ But England nosed ahead of the hosts in the medals table to take the second position.’ On a day which saw fortunes fluctuating’ for the number two spot between the two nations, England finally caught up with India's haul of 24 gold medals.’ A higher number of silver medals helped them overtake India in the medal standings.’ With a haul of 24 Gold, 43 Silver and 29 Bronze, England were one rung below front runners Australia on the sixth day of competitions.Australia were comfortably placed at the top with 55 Gold, 30 Silver and 31 bronze. ‘India's top drawer marksmen were bang on target yesterday, while freestyle grapplers Yogeshwar Dutt and Narsingh Pancham Yadav came up with a power-packed display to help India bag four gold medals.””” Rifle ace Gagan Narang won his fourth gold medal, just one short of compatriot Samaresh Jung's haul at Melbourne four years ago, winning the men's 50m 3-position event with a Games record aggregate 1262.2.”’ He will now aim to overhaul Jung's record haul on October 12 and 13 in the 50m prone (pairs and individual) event and become the new “Gold Finger”.”’ Centre fire pistol shooting pair, Vijay Kumar and Harpreet Singh, and wrestlers Dutt (men's 60kg) and Yadav (men's 74kg) also snapped up their gold medals in impressivefashion to take the host country's gold tally to 24.”’ ‘ It was also India's second-highest gold medal tally in Games history and six short of the record 30 at Manchesterin 2002.”’ ”” ‘Sania Mirza, India's best bet in women's singles tennis, had to settle for a silver medal when she lost to Australia's Anastasia Rodionova in three sets in the final.”” ‘”Indian Express” duo Leander Paes and Mahesh Bhupathi, pre-Games favourites, ended up third in men's doubles while the country won four other bronze medals, including a first-ever in men's 20 kilometre road walk through Patiala's based Harminder Singh.’ Harminder clocked One hour, 23 minutes, 28 seconds.”” Harminder was only the fifth man to win an athletics medal in Games history.””’ ‘The other bronze medals were claimed by women shooters Suma Shirur and Kavita Yadav, in women's 10 metres air rifle pairs event, men's table tennis outfit which blanked Nigeria 3-0 in the bronze medal tie and weightlifter Monica Devi’ in women's 75kg. ””Grappler Yogeshwar Dutt defeated Canada's James Mancini 9-2 in the 60kg freestyle gold medal bout while Yadav beat South Africa's Richard Bri Addinall in the 74 kgtitle-deciding fight.”” ‘ Another wrestler, Anil Maan (96kg) lost his preliminary bout to Leon Gregor Rattigan of England.”” Despite an average performance, Monica Devi won her weightlifting bronze with a clearance of 216kg, 23 kgs less than gold winner Hadiza Zakari of Nigeria.In boxing, Asian champion Suranjoy Singh (52kg) and Amandeep Singh (49kg) assured India of at least two medals by advancing to the semifinals with contrasting wins.’In hockey, the Indian men's team defeated Scotland 4-0.’ India need to win their crucial tie against Pakistan today to make it to the semi finals while the women crashed out despite beating South Africa 3-1 in a pool tie.”” There was disappointment for India in all other athletics event.In women's 20km race walk, however, Rani Yadav finished sixth in 1 hour, 42 minute and 54 seconds.’ K J Sandhya was eighth in 1 hour 51 minute and 44 seconds, while’ L Deepmala Devi did not finish the race.In the evening, other Indians could not emulate Harminder's feat on the fourth day of the track and field events even though the showpiece venue Jawaharlal NehruStadium was thronged by nearly 40,000 spectators, the biggest so far.’The best Indian performance in this session came from Sudha Singh who finished fifth in women's 3,000 metres steeplechase by setting a new national record of 9 minute, 57.63 seconds.’ She erased the earlier mark of 10 minute,’ 03.05′ seconds, standing in the name of Jaisha.In women's shot put final, Manpreet Kaur and Patwant Kaur finished a distant ninth and 11th in the 12-athlete field. Manpreet threw 14.50 metres,’ while Patwant cleared 12.63 metres.India's Saraswathi Sundaram and Suman Devi finished a lowly eighth and ninth respectively despite setting their season's best of 51.51 metres and 51.19 metres in women's javelin. ” ‘In men's discus throw, national record holder Vikas Gowda finished second by clearing 60.83m to qualify for the finals while Anil Kumar fell by the wayside after ending at13th with a disappointing 47.68 metres effort.’In women's 200 metres, Satti Geetha ran her season's best of 23.99 secondss to finish third in a round one heat and qualify for the second round.In men's 200 metres, India's Dharambir ran his personal best of 21.20 secs but still failed to qualify for the semifinals after finishing sixth in one of the round two heats. The other Indian in the fray, Mohd Abdul Qureshi was disqualified for false start in a round one heat.”” In women's long jump, all the three Indians — Maliakkal Prajusha, Mayookha Johny and Resmi Bose — qualified for the finals with efforts of 6.31m, 6.27m and 6.12m respectively.’ In men's 400 metres hurdles, both the Indians in fray — national record holder Joseph Abraham and Kuldev Singh — failed to qualify with both finishing fourth in theirrespective heats.’ Abraham clocked 50.55 seconds, below his season's best of 50.24 seconds and national mark of 49.52 seconds.Both their women counterparts also could not qualify for the finals after finishing fifth in their respective heats. Jauna Murmu clocked 59.86 seconds while Ashwini Akkunji timed 59.49 second.