Jakarta Aug 19 (IANS) India s veteran Sushil Kumar suffered a shock defeat in the opening round to crash out of the men s 74 kg category in the wrestling competition at the 18th Asian Games here on Sunday.
Sushil seemed sluggish and off-colour right from the start during a rather lacklustre 3-5 defeat to Adam Batirov of Brunei.
Batirov will take on Abdul Ghafar Qaderi of Afghanistan in the pre-quarterfinals.

--IANS ajb/mr