Commonwealth Games 2022 LIVE: Laura Muir storms to 1500m gold after England win women’s hockey title

Back in the table tennis, Wales’ Anna Hursey is taking on Australia’s Yangzi Liu in the singles. After a formidable fight from Hursey, she loses the first game 15-13 yet had game point herself.

The second game isn’t so close. Liu taking it 11-9 leaving Hursey with a ton of work to do.

There’s been a bit of a fightback from Fiji in their semi-final against Australia. They’re now 17-11 down and are putting the pressure on.

England continue to chip away at the Welsh confidence. A two in the 13th end puts them seven points in front and the English trio look very comfortable with their day’s work so far.

England lead 13-5 after 14 ends after a final bowl smash fails to come off for Wales giving England another point. They’re now eight up with four ends to go.

Adam Peaty was the invincible man – no more.

In eight years, the triple Olympic champion had never lost a senior race over 100m breaststroke, but a broken foot and James Wilby combined to break that unbeaten record.

It was in the Commonwealth Games that Peaty announced himself to the world back in 2014, winning his favoured event to start a run that has taken him beyond the reach of mere mortals.

But even Peaty is human and Birmingham 2022 proved the moment where that mortality struck. Fastest over the first 50 metres, it then became clear that the unthinkable would happen as England and Loughborough teammate Wilby chased him down and overhauled him to claim a memorable gold medal – Peaty faded so much that he ended up out of the medals altogether, swimming a time of 59.86, nearly three full seconds of his world record, to come fourth.

Here’s how the medal table is shaping up after three days of sporting action. Australia lead the way with England and New Zealand trailing in second and third respectively.

After shipping three points to Wales in the 10th end England have taken a point in the 11th and the 12th to move 10-5 up in the men’s triple semi-final.

The winner of this game will head into the gold medal match with the loser playing for bronze.

The other semi-final is being fought between Australia and Fiji with the Aussies currently 17-6 ahead.

Australia’s class just shone through in the bronze medal match with Chloe Thomas and Charlotte Carey losing 11-5, 11-5, 11-8.

They gave it a good go in the third game but stumbled towards the finish thanks to some brilliant shots from Minhyung Jee who helped overturn a four shot deficit for the Aussies.

Thomas and Carey have it all to do. They are already two games down against Australia and are level 6-6 in the third. This is a must win game if the Welsh pair hope to win.

A long flat return wins Wales a point before Carey’s forehand finds the net. 7-7.

There’s a medal match taking place in the table tennis as Wales duo, Chloe Anna Thomas and Charlotte Carey compete against Australia for the bronze medal.

The Welsh pair took on Malaysia in the semi-final yesterday and eventually lost 3-2. Can they bounceback and claim a Commonwealth medal today?

This morning’s action has been dominated by the men’s triple semi-final match between England and Wales in the lawn bowls. After nine ends England are 8-2 up but Wales have the chance to pick up a three in the 10th... they take it!

All of a sudden it’s 8-5 and game on.

In the men’s para pairs B6-B8 semi-finals Scotland are leading New Zealand 7-6 after eight ends while England are 2-11 down to Australia.

Scotland are also bossing the women’s para pairs B6-B8 semi-finals, they are 10-3 up against England after seven ends.

Welcome to The Independent’s coverage of day four of the Commonwealth Games from Birmingham. After his shock defeat in the 100m breastroke finals yesterday, England’s Adam Peaty returns to the pool this morning for the heats in the 50m event looking to bounceback from Sunday’s disappointment.

Elsewhere, England and Northern Ireland have hopes of gold in the gymnastics and track cycling concludes with the men’s 40km points race in the evening.

Let’s get stuck into the early morning action though as England take on Wales in the men’s lawn bowls semi-finals.