Jammu, April 29 -- India Inches Closer to Quarters with Win over England

Defending champions India took another step towards repeating their success from 2022 after defeating England in their second group match of the Thomas Cup on Monday. HS Prannoy started the proceedings for India with a straight games win over Harry Huang. World No. 3 duo of Satwiksairaj Rankireddy and Chirag Shetty were then made to work hard in their match against Ben Lane and Sean Vendy but prevailed in three games.

With Lakshya Sen given a rest, Kidambi Srikanth stepped up and sealed the tie for India with a comfortable straight games victory against Nadeem Dalvi. The second doubles pairing of MR Arjun and Dhruv Kapila wrapped up the tie with another straight ga...