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India's women advanced to the semi-finals of the Eight Nation Invitational Lawn Bowls Event being played at the state-of-art Jawaharlal Nehru Stadium on Thursday after finishing 1st and 4th in the Triples and Singles events respectively. The ladies failed to make it to the last stage of the Pairs event after finishing 6th at the end of the Group stage of the competition. The Men meanwhile failed to cover themselves in glory coming in second from bottom in both the Singles and Pairs event and dead last in the Triples. The participating nations at this pre-Commonwealth Games Test event are England, Australia, New Zealand, Northern Ireland, Scotland, Malaysia, South Africa and the hosts India.

Farazna Khan continued her great winning run defeating Donna McCloy of Northern Ireland in a tie-breaker with a score of 14-1, 7-8 in India's favour, giving India its first win of the day. Later in the third session Farazna defeated England's Amy Monkhouse in another tie breaker with a score of 7-11, 11-4.

Speaking on her performance Faranza Khan said, "It was tough match and I had to fight till the end. Donna & Amy both gave a good fight and games ended in a tie breaker. I am happy with my performance and I am looking forward for other matches."

In the Women's Triples India's Tania Choudhury, Pinki and Rupa Rani Tirkey beat South Africa's Susan Nel, Susanna Steyn and Sylvia Burns in straight sets of 12-3, 10-8. The trio defeated Australia's Sharyn Renshaw, Claire Duke and Beth Quinlan by 14-2, 6-9 in a tie breaker finish.

Sunil Bahadur and Mahip Tirkey picked up the only win of the day for the hosts in the Men's event as they beat Neil Spiers and Darren Burnett of Scotland in straight sets of 8-6, 5-5 in the Pairs category.

India's coach Richard Gale said, "I am satisfied with teams performance, the team is young and lack experience as compared to other participating nations. The facility available here to players will help India go a long way in Lawn Bowls."

Match score of Session 1 (Round 5) is as follows:

WOMEN'S SINGLES: Australia beat England (7-11, 19-2) wining in a tie breaker, India beat Northern Ireland (14-1, 7-8) wining in a tie breaker Scotland beat New Zealand (10-4, 8-4) and South Africa beat Malaysia (10-6, 7-6).

MEN'S SINGLES: Australia beat South Africa (13-3, 11-4), New Zealand beat England by 6-12, 14-6 in a tie breaker, Scotland beat India (9-5, 10-4) and Northern Island beat Malaysia (5-2, 8-6) in a tie breaker.

MEN'S PAIRS: Australia beat New Zealand (5-11, 7-5) in a tie breaker, England beat India (5-12, 11-1) in a tie breaker, South Africa beat Scotland (5-8, 11-8) in a tie breaker and Northern Island beat Malaysia (13-4, 8-6).

WOMEN'S PAIRS: Australia beat India (11-4, 10-3), England beat Northern Ireland (10-8, 2-13) in a tie breaker, South Africa beat Malaysia (12-7, 4-11)in a tie breaker and Scotland beat New Zealand (21-9, 1-0).

Match score of Session 2 (Round 5 & 6) is as follows:

WOMEN'S TRIPLES (Round 5): Australia beat New Zealand (11-6, 5-10) in a tie breaker, England beat Northern Ireland (14-5, 10-5), Scotland beat Malaysia (13-5, 6-13) in a tie breaker and India beat South Africa (12-3, 10-8).

MEN'S TRIPLES (Round 5): Australia beat Northern Ireland (12-6. 9-9), New Zealand beat India (17-3, 10-9), England beat Scotland (7-7, 10-7) and South Africa beat Malaysia (4-12, 8-4) in a tie breaker.

MEN'S PAIRS (Round 6): Australia beat England (7-6, 4-6) in a tie breaker, Malaysia beat New Zealand (5-13, 11-3) in a tie breaker, South Africa beat Northern Ireland (13-4, 10-4) and India beat Scotland (8-6, 5-5).

WOMEN'S PAIRS (Round 6): Malaysia beat India (11-7, 7-6), England beat New Zealand (18-1, 13-2), Scotland beat Australia (11-5, 10-12) in a tie breaker and Northern Ireland beat South Africa (12-5, 10-4).

Match score of Session 3 (Round 6) is as follows:

WOMEN'S TRIPLES: India beat Australia (14-2, 6-9) in a tie breaker, England beat Malaysia (9-7, 9-7), Northern Island beat New Zealand (8-6, 12-6) and Scotland beat South Africa (11-10, 15-3)

MEN'S TRIPLES: Australia beat Malaysia (9-7, 11-4), England beat South Africa (11-4, 9-3), Northern Ireland beat India (11-8, 7-6) and Scotland beat New Zealand (16-5, 11-8)

MEN'S SINGLES: Northern Ireland beat Australia (11-5, 10-8), Scotland beat England (9-5, 9-8), Malaysia beat India (7-6, 7-11) in a tie breaker and South Africa beat New Zealand (6-8, 10-5) in a tie breaker.

WOMEN'S SINGLES: Australia beat Malaysia (18-0, 10-5), India beat England (7-11, 11-4) in a tie breaker, New Zealand beat Northern Ireland (3-10, 10-4) in a tie breaker and Scotland beat South Africa (3-6, 9-5) in a tie breaker.