Star men's doubles pair Satwiksairaj Rankireddy and Chirag Shetty earned India's first-ever badminton gold medal at the Asian Games with a straight-game win over South Korea's Choi Solgyu and Kim Wonho.
The Indian men's team was declared winners after the Asian Games cricket final was abandoned. The Men In Blue were declared the gold medal winners by virtue of having higher seeding than Afghanistan.
India also won the men's kabaddi gold medal on Saturday by beating Iran 33-29.
World number 3 Satwik and Chirag, who had become the first Indians to win the Asian championships in 58 years in March this year, extended their sensational run with a 21-18 21-16 win over Choi and Kim, ranked 15th, to achieve their crowing glory.
It was also India's first medal in men's doubles in 41 years since Leroy D'sa and Pradeep Gandhe won a bronze in the 1982 edition. The medal ensured India's best-ever performance at the continental champions as they ended with three medals -- a men's doubles gold a men's team silver and a men's singles bronze.
India had won a silver and bronze in the 2018 edition at Jakarta while bagging five bronze at the 1982 edition. Satwik and Chirag will become the world no. 1 team when BWF releases the ranking chart on Tuesday.
Put to bat, Afghanistan were 112 for 5 in 18.2 overs when persistent rain halted the proceedings at the Zhejiang University of Technology Cricket Field, and the match never restarted from that point.
India skipper Ruturaj said he was "disappointed" with the match being abandoned due to persistent rain.
"It was pretty much disappointing. Obviously, we would have loved to have a full game and get a result through the full game, but it's a thing we cannot control. The match officials came and told us around 5pm. I think we pretty much knew by then because the rain was getting heavier.
"It feels good, I'm very proud. It is something we are not used to, winning a medal. The feeling is slightly different, more emotional for everyone and everyone is really enjoying it."
On what would have been an acceptable victory target for his team to chase, Gaikwad added, "I think 140 or 150 is a pretty gettable target batting second because it's a small ground and the kind of batting we have, we were pretty confident that even 150 would have been chased down."
- With inputs from PTI
