By Jason Hughes, PA International

Johan Rossouw was shattered after England's wrestlers failed to provide their former team manager Tony Shacklady, who suffered a stroke two months ago, with the boost of a Commonwealth Games medal.

Kent's Rossouw had their final hope of a medal, but that ray of light was extinguished when he lost 3-0 to Pakistan's Muhammad Bashir Bhola today.

Rossouw said: "We all wanted to win medals for Tony but it was not to be. The whole team even went to visit him in hospital the other day to tell him what they were going to do.

"He is improving and just taking it one day at a time, but it would have been nice to have helped him along with a medal or two."

England won three silver and one bronze in Victoria eight years ago, the last time wrestling was in the Games.

But three of those medallists - John Melling, Andy Hutchinson and Amerjit Singh - went out on the opening day of elimination pools this time around, setting the tone for a miserable competition for the home nation.

South African-born Rossouw, fighting in the up to 96 kilograms class, said: "It didn't click for us. We all had good preparation but it just didn't happen and none of us can really explain why."

England's best chance of a medallist was Jatinder Singh but the 19-year-old Wolverhampton wrestler, the only English competitor to survive the opening day, lost his bronze play-off 6-1 to Nigeria's Sinivie Boltic in the 84kg category.

Earlier today, local lad Paul Stridgeon had at least given the Manchester crowdsomething to cheer about with a 10-0 win over Rudolf Vaessler in the 60kg category.

However the much-improved performance from the Wigan wrestler was not enough to put him in medal contention following two defeats yesterday.

"That was more like it though," said the 22-year-old.

"It was great to at last show my home crowd what I was about."

England team-mate Nate Ackerman lost to Muhammad Ali, who seemed to draw inspiration from his more famous namesake in a 6-0 74kg victory.

Daniel Igali completed a clean sweep of gold for Canada in Sunday afternoon's finals when he won the 74kg category with a 10-0 whitewash of Sunday Opiah.

Nigerian-born Igali, who has 20 brothers and sisters, also won gold in Sydney, and carried the Canadian flag at the opening ceremony.

The 28-year-old followed up golds for Guivi Sissaouri and Dean Schmeichel earlier in the evening.

Canada also won on Saturday night through Nicholas Ugoalah and beat India 4-3 in the final count of gold in the wrestling.