By Jason Hughes, PA International

England's Jatinder Singh and Douglas Thomson of Scotland missed out on bronze as the home nations remained medal-less after two days of wrestling action at Manchester's G-Mex Arena.

Jatinder, the only English wrestler to survive Friday's opening sessions, lost his medal play-off 6-1 to Nigeria's Sinivie Boltic in the 84kg category.

And Thomson, whose wife gave birth to a 10-and-a-half pound baby boy in the morning, suffered defeat in the 120kg class to Australian Mushtaq Rasem Abdullah by the same scoreline.

Jatinder had given the host country a lift with three convincing wins as England's three medallists from 1994 all went out in their respective elimination pools.

But the Wolverhampton wrestler failed to repeat that form on Saturday, losing his semi-final by a fall to Anuj Kumar, who was later beaten 4-1 by Nicholas Ugoalah in the gold match, and then to Boltic in the evening session.

Jatinder's defeat meant England did not register a single victory on day two of wrestling.

"It is a bit embarrassing that we have not won any medals," said the 19-year-old.

"If an English guy had got to a final then we would have had more coverage for our sport."

However, on a personal note, Jatinder was pleased with the progress he has made this year.

"I am really disappointed not to have got a medal, but I have to look on the bright side too," he said.

"Six months ago I did not think I would make the team, two months ago I did not think I would win a match and two days ago I did not think I would have the chance of a medal even."

Minutes after the English loss, Scotland's Thomson took to the mat, but he could not provide the crowd with a first Manchester medal from a British wrestler.

Like Jatinder, though, the Greenock grappler was not too downhearted.

"The match went to plan, apart from that I lost," said the 35-year-old. "It was closer than the score suggested and I felt I was a bit unlucky at times.

"It didn't help being up most of the night waiting for news from my wife. But I eventually got the phone call at 3.30 this morning to say that she had had a boy."

In Thomson's category, Palwinder Singh Cheema took the third of India's gold medals on the night with an 11-0 whitewash of Canadian Eric Kirschner.

India began their haul in the first of their four final battles with Canada when Krishan Kumar pipped Mikheil Japaridze 6-4 in the 55kg class. Shaun Williams of South Africa took bronze.

Ramesh Kumar made it two, fighting off the pain from a knee injury sustained with one minute left on the clock to hold on for a 3-2 win over Graham Ewers in the 66kg category. Nigeria's Fred Jessey made up the medal podium.