Shooters and wrestlers make it second best CWG day ever

Indian sport had a happy problem of plenty on Tuesday. Whose fortunes to follow, which channel to flip? Shooters in the capital or our cricket gladiators in Mohali?

There was the Indian women's pair of Rahi Sarnobat and Anisa Sayyed who followed India's opening gold at the Commonwealth Games -- courtesy Abhinav Bindra and Gagan Narang in the 10m air rifle pairs -- with one of their own in the 25m pistol pairs.

The world champion and Olympic hero pairing of Narang and Bindra fired a Games record of 1193 points beating their previous best of 1189 set in Melbourne four years ago.

The feat drew Twitter praise across the board, ranging from Lata Mangeshkar to the duo's Village neighbours, Rohan Bopanna and Sania Mirza.

This was Bindra's first big medal on Indian soil. "My best moment since Beijing," he said, before adding, tongue in cheek, "I'd like to live under the illusion that our gold medal will make headlines tomorrow".

As the curtains came down on Day Two of the Games and the Indian men held off a resolute Malaysia 3-2 in men's hockey, their wrestling counterparts had cornered three gold medals in the Greco-Roman class.

India dominated proceedings, ending Day Two with a flattering medal tally of five gold, four silver and two bronze. It was a notch below early pace-setters, Australia who have eight gold medals, eight silver and four bronze. England with two gold, five silver and four bronze are third.