Father Inderpal Singh, India's first rowing Olympian (2000 Sydney Games), will witness the moment from sidelines as he would be with the team as a coach.

Morikawa, who had rounds of 68-66 on the first two days, is currently 18-under 198 with one day of action left at the Albany Golf Club.

The team that includes players, support staff and management boarded a flight at the Indira Gandhi International airport here for Bengaluru.

In the absence of Captain Rani, who has been rested from the tournament, India were led by veteran goalkeeper Savita.

Fifteen acres. That is the land (roughly 11.5 full-sized football fields) that's been allocated to build India's biggest hockey stadium, a 21,050 seater at roughly Rs 130 crore.

He drew applause when, in response to what his favourite food is, he described how he liked to cook vegetable biryani, without making it spicy, and have it with curd.

This was the 21st meeting between Sindhu and Yamaguchi and after this win, Sindhu leads the head-to-head record by 13-8.

In the other classification match earlier in the day, Harendra Singh-coached USA beat Egypt 3-0 via a penalty shoot-out to avoid the wooden spoon and end their campaign on the 15th spot.

The list of qualified nations for the hockey tournament at the Birmingham Games has not yet been announced and is set to be made official in February next year.

According to the Sports Authority of India, Neeraj would fly out of the country on December 5 and the cost of the tour would be around Rs 47 lakh.