India's male spikers lost their second consecutive group E play-off encounter as they went down to Qatar in straight games in the volleyball event at the Asian Games here today.
Qatar won by an identical margin of 25-20 25-20 25-20 in a match that lasted an hour and 10 minutes and also officially ended India's chances of making it to the knock-out rounds.
India have already lost to South Korea in an earlier encounter.
None of the Indian players were upto the mark as there weren't too many successful spikes. The highest scorer for India was Mandeep Singh with 9 points while Lavmeet Karariya and Naveen Raja Jacob logged home 7 points each.
For Qatar, Nadr Sadikh scored 12 points while Ibrahim notched up 11 points. For Indians, the worst performers were 6 ft 9 inch tall GR Vaishnav, who had a horrible Games scoring only four points while libero Kanagaraj Sivasubramanian also couldn't retrieve the powerful smashes Ndir and John Chigbo.
