Ironically, the day woman wrestler Sakshi Malik brought in India's first medal from the Rio Olympics, the cricket-loony country may have had greater pleasure in their team's ascent to the No.1 position in the world.

And the morning after Pusarla Venkata Sindhu made sure of silver medal by entering the women's badminton singles final came the shattering though suspected news of Narsingh Pancham Yadav being slapped with a four-year ban with the Court of Arbitration for Sports (CAS) upholding the World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA) appeal against national body NADA's clean chit to the 74 kg wrestler. He had his weigh-in and was all set for his opening bout.