MELBOURNE: Indian pair of Dipika Pallikal and Saurav Ghosal settled for silver medal in the mixed doubles event of the World doubles squash championship after going down to New Zealand’s Joelle King and Paul Coll in the final here on Thursday.

Dipika and Ghosal went down 8-11, 8-11 to Joelle and Paul in the final to miss the gold medal.

Notwithstanding the loss, this championship has been historic for India with three medals won for the first time in the history of the Championship. Besides Dipika and Saurav winning the silver, the other mixed pair of Joshna Chinappa and Harinder Pal Sandhu along with the doubles pair of Joshna and Dipika won a bronze medal each for being the losing semi-finalists.PTI