Peter Nicol completed a Commonwealth Games double with victory in the men's doubles but confessed his epic triumph with Lee Beachill was too much like hard work.

London-based Nicol, who won a singles gold in 1998 for Scotland, teamed up with Yorkshireman Beachill to win a gruelling final, which lasted for close to three hours.

Nicol and Beachill repeated their 2002 final success against Australians Stewart Boswell and Anthony Ricketts, winning 7-9 9-7 9-1 10-8.

But after adding the doubles crown to his singles title, 32-year-old Nicol, who will retire this year, admitted the long final had left him drained.

"Whatever is going on on court, however long it takes, however many lets, we enjoy actually being there and playing with each other and for each other," he said.

"That makes it somewhat enjoyable - I'll put the 'somewhat' in there, it's quite enjoyable.

"After two hours 40 minutes I had nothing left to give. The Australian guys have given everything as well and even though we won, the way doubles is, there's almost no defining the winner.

"It's so close and so long. You can't have elation after two hours 40 minutes. There's nothing left to give, we were at the end there."

Nicol claimed the win fell short of his 2002 triumph in Manchester.

He added: "It feels completely different to Manchester four years ago. Last time it was unexpected and exciting, this time it wasn't."

Nicol and Beachill's medals were not the only ones handed out to English players on Sunday, with James Willstrop and Vicky Botwright earning silver after losing the mixed doubles final.

Willstrop, from Pontefract, and Botwright, from Manchester, won the first game but Australians Joseph Kneipp and Natalie Grinham hit back.

Inspired by singles champion Grinham, the home favourites took a decisive lead after overpowering the English pair in a pivotal game three.

And despite a gutsy England finale, Kneipp and Grinham prevailed 6-9 9-6 9-5 9-6.

Willstrop said: "We are very disappointed not to win a gold medal. We gave it everything we could. They are just better.

"But we can't come away from here thinking we did anything wrong. We didn't, we did everything right. We wanted the gold but silver is great."

Grinham barely had time to savour her victory before taking to the court with sister Rachael in the women's doubles final.

They beat New Zealanders Shelley Kitchen and Tamsyn Leevey 1-9 9-4 9-3 9-3 to give Natalie a clean sweep of three gold medals.

Botwright, alongside Stamford's Tania Bailey, added a bronze by beating Louise Crome and Lara Petera, from New Zealand, 10-8 4-9 9-4 9-6 in the third-place play-off.