Asian Games 2018: Five reasons why India's loss against Korea could be good for kabaddi

#2 No more the 'Invincibles'

Skipper Ajay Thakur will want to put this loss behind in a haste

Since kabaddi's inclusion into the Asian Games in 1990, the Indian team has featured in 35 matches. Five matches in 1990, 1998, 2002, 2006 and four in 1994, 2010 and now two matches in 2018, all of them including the finals as well.

Such has been India's dominance in kabaddi that the Men in Blue had wins from all 34 matches until the South Koreas came this time around - squashing a long-standing record for most wins in a row.

The win not only instils a sense of belief in the Koreans and boost their confidence, it will also give the lesser known teams a glimmer of hope that there is a way to surmount the massive Indian challenge when it comes their way, albeit it will be a massive task. As the saying goes, 'When there is a will, there is a way,' and there could be no better time for teams to understand and make sense of this than now.