Indian women's rugby team lose four matches in row, end eighth

Indian women's rugby had a woeful Asian Games outing, losing all their four matches to finish eighth overall, here on Monday.

First, the Indian women's rugby team were blanked 0-15 by Singapore to endure a third defeat on the trot.

In their last group stage match, the Indian team failed to score a single point against world No 35, losing their chance to qualify for the classification playoff for fifth-sixth places.

Then in the seventh-eighth place classification India were beaten by Kazakhstan 7-24.

On Sunday, India had lost to Hong Kong and Japan.

India had finished seventh in their maiden Asian Games campaign at 2010 Guangzhou.