Youth team

World Junior Volleyball Championship:  It's always good to ride the momentum gained through recent success and the Indian men's volleyball team will be hoping to do that when it takes on former champions Japan in a crucial match for a place in tour four and a chance at winning a historic medal.

India had last won a medal in men's volleyball at the 1986 Asian Games in Seoul and will be hoping to get back into medal contention after 37 years and end the drought.

In the 19th Asian Games in Hangzhou, India have so far won all three matches. But what has boosted their morale is that two of their wins have come against South Korea and Chinese Taipei, the silver and bronze medallists in the 2018 edition in Jakarta,