Kenya's kabaddi men beat Australia 76-27 to go 5-0; both Kenyan teams play semi-finals on 30 October

Kenya's men's kabaddi team beat Australia 76-27 on 29 October at the Commonwealth Kabaddi Championship in Ahmedabad, India, finishing Group B with five wins from five matches. Kenya's women won all four of their Group B matches, and both teams play semi-finals on 30 October.

The scores and fixtures are published on the tournament's results and points-table page on the Pro Kabaddi League website, which lists the International Kabaddi Federation (IKF) among the event's sanctioning bodies and Mashal Sports as its manager.

Kabaddi is a contact sport for two teams of seven: a lone raider enters the opponents' half and tries to tag defenders without being tackled, scoring points for each successful tag. This is the first edition of the championship, organised by the Amateur Kabaddi Federation of India (AKFI) with IKF approval, the Indian newspaper Free Press Journal reported on 21 October. It runs from 23 to 31 October at the Veer Savarkar Sports Complex, with 13 nations, 23 squads and more than 400 athletes playing 62 matches.

Kenya's men opened with a 48-28 win over Singapore on 23 October, edged Bangladesh 32-31 on 25 October, beat Scotland 80-15 on 26 October and Canada 49-20 on 28 October before the Australia match. They finished top of Group B with 10 points and a score difference of 164; Bangladesh were second on eight points.

Against Australia, Tobious Muriithii led Kenya's raiding with 21 points and Stephen Adongo added 14, the Indian news agency ANI reported in a story carried by the Free Press Journal on 30 October. Divjot Singh was Australia's leading scorer with 10 raid points.

The women beat Bangladesh 34-25 on 23 October, Sri Lanka 23-20 on 24 October, England 82-6 on 26 October and Scotland 61-16 on 27 October. They won Group B with eight points and a score difference of 133, ahead of Sri Lanka on six.

Kenya entered a 15-player men's squad and a 14-player women's squad. Two other East African countries are in Ahmedabad. On 29 October Uganda's men beat Nigeria 72-29 and Tanzania's men beat England 36-27; in the men's Group A, Uganda finished third with eight points and Tanzania fifth with four.

The women play Uganda in the first women's semi-final at 6pm India time (15:30 in Nairobi) on 30 October. Uganda finished second in women's Group A with three wins from four matches, behind India. India play Sri Lanka in the other women's semi-final at 6:45pm India time.

The men meet Sri Lanka on the same evening, and India play Bangladesh in the other men's semi-final. Sri Lanka won five of six matches to finish second in men's Group A; their one defeat was 45-24 to India on 29 October. India's men won all six group matches.

Both finals are on 31 October: the women's at 7:30pm India time (17:00 in Nairobi) and the men's at 9pm India time (18:30 in Nairobi).