
World number one Indian shuttler Kidambi Srikanth won his career's first Commonwealth Games singles medal on Sunday. Thus he bid to become the second Indian badminton player to win an individual Commonwealth Gold has been squashed in utterly dominating manner by three-time Olympic silver medalist Lee Chong Wei. Notably, only three Indian shuttlers have won CWG men's singles title– Prakash Padukone (1978), Syed Modi (1982) and Parupalli Kashyap (2014).