A. Sharath Kamal and Sreeja Akula gave India its first-ever Commonwealth Games mixed doubles gold medal and the second table tennis gold in Birmingham by overcoming the giant-killer Malaysian pair of Javen Choong and Karen Lyne in Birmingham on Sunday night.
Sharath and Sreeja kept their scintillating run alive in the tournament to overcome Choong and Lyne — who had earlier ousted pre-tournament favourites G. Sathiyan and Manika Batra — 11-4, 9-11, 11-5, 11-6 in the best-of-five-games final.