NEW DELHI, July 30 -- Two years after his Olympic dreams were dashed by a left patellar tendon rupture that almost ended his career, long jumper Murali Sreeshankar won a creditable silver at the Commonwealth Games in Glasgow on Wednesday.

A silver medallist from the 2022 Birmingham CWG, Sreeshankar repeated the effort with a best leap of 8.09m that came on his second attempt. He held the lead till the fourth try before Jamaica's Tajay Gayle stole his thunder with an 8.15m jump. Scotland's Stephen Mackenzie was third with a best of 8.08m.

In what appeared to be conducive conditions for jumping with a mild tailwind, Jamaica's three-time World Championships medallist opened the competition with an impressive jump of 8.08m that put him in j...