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  • CWG Day 7 time table: Murali Sreeshankar and Muhammed Anees Yahiya in Lengthy Soar Ultimate, India hockey males glance to complete atop Pool B

    The Indian contingent will likely be in motion on day 7 on the Birmingham Commonwealth Video games (CWG) 2022 on Thursday, August 4, 2022. The CWG had been a cheerful searching floor for the biggest country within the Commonwealth. A top-five finisher for the reason that 2002 version, India has relied so much at the capturing dropped from the Birmingham Video games programme. Going forward within the 2022 Birmingham Video games, they’re going to be aiming to a minimum of fit their 66-medal haul from the former Gold Coast version. India had completed 3rd in Gold Coast, with as many as 26 golds, 20 silver, and 20 bronze medals of their kitty.

    Lengthy Soar (Males’s, 12:12 AM)

    India’s Murali Sreeshankar and Muhammed Anees Yahiya certified for Males’s Lengthy Soar ultimate positioned first and 8th within the qualification spherical. Sreeshankar, who secured an automated qualification, is fundamental contender for a gold medal end within the tournament. The 23-year-old has been in keeping with 8m-plus jumps this season and can glance to catch up on a seventh position end on the International Championships remaining month.

    Ladies’s 200m Warmth (Hima Das, 3:03 PM)

    The Dhing Categorical will likely be on display in Birmingham in spite of everything as she options in Ladies’s 200m Spherical 1 Warmth 2. Das, who gained gold for India at Jakarta Asian Video games in 2018 within the 4×400 relay has made the transition from the quartermile and now runs within the ladies’s 200m sprint and the 4x100m ladies’s relay.

    Males’s Pool B – India as opposed to Wales – 6.30 PM

    Having bounced again with an 8-0 win after a disappointing 4-4 consequence vs England, India males would need to end their Pool B adventure with a win to peak and keep away from taking part in Australia within the semi-finals. Manpreet Singh and co. win their first sport towards Ghana 11-0, which provides them an edge on the subject of purpose distinction. Even a 1-0 win would imply they end on peak of the desk.

    Boxing 

    Over 48 KG – 51 KG QFs (Males’s, 4:45 PM): Amit Panghal VS Lennon Mulligan

    Over 67KG – 60 KG QFs S (Ladies’s 6:15 PM): Jaismine Lamboria VS Troy Garton

    Over92 KG QFs (Males’s 8:00 PM): Sagar Ahlawat VS Keddy Evans Agnes

    Over 63.5KG – 67KG QFs (Males’s, August 5, 12:30 AM): Rohit Tokas VS Xavier Ikinofo

    Desk Tennis

    (2:00 PM onwards)

    MIXED DOUBLES ROUND OF 64: Sanil Shetty and Reeth Tennison

    MIXED DOUBLES ROUND OF 32: Sathiyan Gnanasekaran and Manika Batra

    MIXED DOUBLES ROUND OF 32: Sharath Kamal and Sreeja Akula

    (8:30 PM onwards)

    WOMENS SINGLES ROUND OF 32: Reeth Tennison, Sreeja Akula and Manika Batra

    MIXED DOUBLES ROUND OF 32: Harmeet Desai/Sanil Shetty and Sharath Kamal/Sathiyan Gnanasekaran

    Squash

    WOMENS DOUBLES ROUND OF 32: (5:30 PM) Sunayna Sara Kuruvilla/Anahat Singh

    MENS DOUBLES ROUND OF 32 (6:00 PM): Senthilkumar Velavan/Abhay Singh

    MIXED DOUBLES ROUND OF 16 (7:00 PM): Dipika Pallikal/Saurav Ghosal

    MIXED DOUBLES ROUND OF 16 (11:00 PM): Joshana Chinappa/Harinder Good friend Singh Sandhu

    WOMENS DOUBLES ROUND OF 16 (August 5, 12:30 PM): Joshana Chinappa/Dipika Pallikal

  • CWG Day 6 time table: India vs Barbados in cricket, India vs Canada in hockey and squash males’s singles bronze medal fit

    The Indian contingent will probably be in motion on day 6 on the Birmingham Commonwealth Video games (CWG) 2022 on Wednesday, August 3, 2022. The CWG were a cheerful searching floor for the biggest country within the Commonwealth. A top-five finisher because the 2002 version, India has relied so much at the capturing dropped from the Birmingham Video games programme. Going forward within the 2022 Birmingham Video games, they’ll be aiming to no less than fit their 66-medal haul from the former Gold Coast version. India had completed 3rd in Gold Coast, with as many as 26 golds, 20 silver, and 20 bronze medals of their kitty.

    Cricket (Girls’s) – India vs Barbados (10.30 PM)

    The Indian girls’s group will hope to construct at the momentum after beating arch competitors Pakistan and can tackle Barbados within the closing fit of their staff. India has misplaced to Australia, received in opposition to Pakistan and can want a win in opposition to Barbados to stick alive.

    Girls’s Pool A – India as opposed to Canada 3.30 PM

    After shedding for the primary time within the CWG on Tuesday in opposition to England, the Indian girls’s hockey group will glance to return to profitable techniques in opposition to Canada on Wednesday. Previous to the England loss, the Indians had registered back-to-back victories — 5-0 over Ghana and 3-1 in opposition to Wales — of their first two Pool A suits.

    Males’s Pool B – India as opposed to Canada – 6.30 PM

    The Indian males’s hockey group would glance to position up a disciplined efficiency and keep away from pointless playing cards in its bid to go back to profitable techniques in opposition to Canada on the Commonwealth Video games right here on Wednesday. After a thumping 11-0 win over Ghana of their opener, India squandered a three-goal benefit and had been held 4-4 via hosts England of their 2d pool B fit.

    Squash

    Males’s Singles – Bronze Medal Fit

    Saurav Ghoshal vs James Willstrop (9.30 PM)

    Combined Doubles spherical of 32 as opposed to Sri Lanka -03.30 PM

    Girls

    Shot Put ultimate – Manpreet Kaur (12.35 am on Thursday)

    Boxing:

    Girls

    45kg-48 kg (minimal weight) – quarterfinals –Nitu Ganghas (4.45 pm)

    48-50 kg (mild flyweight) – quarterfinals – Nikhat Zahreen (11.15 PM)

    66-70 kg (mild middleweight) -quarter-finals – Lovlina Borgohain (12.45 am on Thursday)

    Males

    54-57 kg (featherweight) – quarterfinals – Hussam Uddin Mohammed (5.45 pm)

    75-80 kg (mild heavyweight) – quarter-finals – Ashish Kumar (2.00 AM on Wednesday)

    Judo

    Girls’s 78kg quarter-finals – Tulika Mann – 2.30 PM onwards

    Males’s 100kg removing spherical of 16 – Deepak Deswal – 2.30 PM onwards

    Garden Bowls:

    Males’s Singles – Mridul Borgohain – 1 PM and four PM

    Girls’s Pair – India as opposed to Nuie – 1 PM and four PM

    Males’s 4 – India as opposed to Cook dinner Islands and England – 7.30 PM and 10.30 PM

    Girls’s Triple – India as opposed to Nuie 07.30 PM

    Weightlifting

    Males’s 109 kg – Lovpreet Singh – 2.00 PM

    Girls’s 87kg – Purnima Pandey – 6.30 PM

    Males’s 109 kg – Gurdeep Singh – 11 PM

     

  • Hailed as Mirabai 2.0, Bindyarani Devi wins CWG silver: “Gold slipped out of my hand”

    Going into her first Commonwealth Video games, Bindyarani Devi Sorokhaibam have been hailed through many as ‘Mirabai 2.0’. One can see why. They each proportion the similar game, similar state, similar town, equivalent occupation trajectories i.e. up, or even began their trips on the SAI North Japanese Regional Centre in Imphal. And on Saturday, they each received a medal for India on the Birmingham Commonwealth Video games.

    Lifting weights actually and metaphorically off her shoulders, the 23-year-old displayed calmness and self belief on her technique to dressed in silver through lifting a complete of 202kg (86kg in take hold of, a Video games report of 116kg in blank and jerk) within the Girls’s 55kg Weightlifting ultimate. Her private absolute best overall and just one lower than the gold winner, Adijat Adenike Olarinoye of Nigeria.

    Sooner than Bindyarani’s first take hold of carry, the overall had observed 79kg being lifted handiest as soon as. The Indian arrived on the venue, lifted 81kg in her first try. That was once adopted through a snappy and explosive carry of 84kgs in her 2d, organising a Commonwealth Video games take hold of report, even supposing it lasted for a couple of seconds. The 23-year outdated completed the spherical with two rulings in her prefer for a 86kg carry.

    The most important takeaway for Bindyarani from the overall got here within the Blank & Jerk spherical when she lifted 116kg in her ultimate try, a excellent 5 kg greater than the second one absolute best. On the other hand, her deficit of six kg to Nigeria’s Olarinoye in take hold of supposed that the Indian completed 2d within the general tally. A large second in her tale. Without a doubt no longer the ultimate and indisputably no longer the primary.

    Nationwide trainer Vijay Sharma had, in some way, predicted this result. Forward of the Video games, he had identified Bindyarani’s shortcomings in take hold of, particularly when she went head-to-head with the Nigerian.

    “She is a brilliant ability and her gold medal on the International Championships presentations that. Forward of CWG, we attempted to paintings on her weak spot in take hold of,” Sharma had stated. “We attempted to make up for it up to we will… however meet up with the Nigerian lifter will likely be difficult.”

    India’s Bindyarani Devi Sorokhaibam in motion right through the overall. (Reuters)

    The rostrum end on the CWG is in continuation to the large strides the lifter has taken within the ultimate couple of years.

    Seven months in the past, within the absence of Mirabai Chanu, she received a gold for India within the 55Kg Blank & Jerk and a silver on the 2021 Commonwealth Senior Championships that have been held at the same time as with the IWF International Championships in Tashkent, Uzbekistan.

    That’s medal No 4 in weightlifting ??‍♀️ for Crew ??! Bindiyarani Devi wins the ? within the 55 KG class lifting a complete of 202 KG! Nice day for #teamindia at @birminghamcg22 #EkIndiaTeamIndia #B2022 percent.twitter.com/2hCKVxwJ41

    — Crew India (@WeAreTeamIndia) July 31, 2022

    She completed with a absolute best of 114kg within the Blank & Jerk and a complete carry of 198kg, each nationwide information within the Girls’s 55kg class however misplaced out at the gold medal to Olarinoye.

    After that tournament, Bindyarani had spoken in regards to the affect Mirabai, who received the gold medal on Saturday, has had on her. Mirabai, she added, helped her with method and coaching and in addition purchased her lifting footwear as she may just no longer manage to pay for to shop for them.

    It took her handiest six months to beef up on each her information as she recorded a 115kg Blank & Jerk carry and an combination of 199kg as she received the 55kg name within the Khelo India Nationwide-ranking ladies’s weightlifting championships in Himachal Pradesh.

    It will have to be famous that the Girls’s 55kg is a non-Olympic class. For Bindyarani, this was once as giant and profitable an day out as any. She, on the other hand, rued the truth that she may just no longer end on most sensible of the rostrum.

    “I’m more than happy to get a silver in my first CWG,” she was once quoted as announcing through ANI. “Nowadays was once my lifestyles’s absolute best efficiency… gold slipped out of my hand. When I used to be on the podium, I wasn’t on the centre, I can do higher subsequent time.”

  • Hockey participant Navjot Kaur dominated out of the 2022 Commonwealth Video games

    India midfielder Navjot Kaur’s marketing campaign on the Commonwealth Video games got here to an abrupt finish as she is about to fly again house after trying out sure for COVID-19.
    The 27-year-old from Kurukshetra have been in isolation for the previous two days.

    “Skilled participant Navjot Kaur had examined sure for Covid 19, on the other hand is confirmed no signs,” learn a Hockey India remark at the 27-year-old who have been in isolation for the previous two days. “She has been authorized to trip again to India the next day. She has been changed by way of Sonika.”

    Navjot, a member of the silver-winning group at Jakarta Asian Video games, additionally received a bronze medal with India in Incheon Video games again in 2014. Her being dominated out of the video games comes an afternoon after India received their opening fit on the Commonwealth Video games 5-0 in opposition to Ghana on Friday. They face Wales of their subsequent fit on Saturday.

    Previous, two cricket avid gamers from the Indian contingent for the 2022 Commonwealth Video games, Pooja Vastrakar and S Meghana, had additionally examined sure sooner than departure from India however have recovered. Whilst Meghana has already joined the group, Pooja is most probably to enroll in sooner than the 3rd sport in opposition to Barbados on August 3.
    Previous this week, the Video games organisers had mentioned that the Video games Village was once reporting a dozen circumstances consistent with day.

    The Indian Olympic Affiliation (IOA) has urged the avid gamers within the nationwide contingent to keep away from public appearances and keep indoors in view of the continued risk of the COVID-19 pandemic that may bog down their possibilities of participation.

  • Aboriginal big name Gardner, funky-socks lover Grace Harris lend a hand Australia win a mystery in spite of Harmanpreet and Renuka’s heroics

    Mario Nicoliello, a author from Brescia close to Milan, Italy, had by no means watched a cricket fit in his lifestyles, previous to Friday. The sports activities and tradition author for the Avvenire, an Italian day by day affiliated with the modern wing of the Catholic Church, used to be in Birmingham for 3 days to absorb the spectacle of the Commonwealth Video games – an match he used to be a whole stranger to, till just lately.

    On Friday, after a snappy primer introduced to him – “it’s similar to baseball” although the Italian knew of baseball cursorily too – by means of useful cricket writers at Edgbaston at the game, Nicoliello discovered his first connect to cricket. “Six” the belief dawned on his relieved face which had cracked one bit-part of the mysterious game, when India’s Harmanpreet Kaur stepped out to Aussie Jess Jonassen bowling over the wicket, and hit her into the stands – a six on any floor, by no means thoughts the place the boundary ropes had been. The crusing meteor of a ball that went into the group had Nicoliello mimicking the umpire in elevating each fingers as a sign, punch happy about his first lesson within the game.

    Girls’s T20 debuting on the Commonwealth Video games, and aspiring for Olympics at Brisbane 2032, if now not LA 2028, had discovered its first convert from anyone who’d been an absolute ignoramus, and Nicoliello couldn’t consider a sport “so sluggish had such a lot of folks enchanted looking at whilst sitting within the solar.”

    Regardless of shedding by means of 3 wickets ultimately to the realm champ Aussies, India would make a fit of it, after an under-par 154, although Harmanpreet introduced essentially the most enticing passages of play, that had even the Italian imbibing the masterclass in boundary-hitting.  The Indian captain boggled the ones steeped in Championship winning-Aussies too frankly, manipulating their fields so bossily, that at one level that they had two deep sq. legs – one fantastic, the opposite grazing deep mid-wicket, plus a protracted on, and he or she nonetheless discovered an perspective for her 8 barriers.

    It began after Shafali Varma exited, and Harman until then biding her time, started a cat-and-mouse sport with the Australians, obviously her favorite combatants. It’s useless seeking to recover from her knock of 171 from 2017 – now not when the recollections of it may well spawn a 34 ball-52 sequel like on Friday. Harman would sweep the crowds off their ft along with her past due rate, however necessarily sweep the Aussies into confounding helplessness as none in their box plans may include her best putting into gaps.

    That’s that from our first sport at #CWG2022

    Australia win by means of 3 wickets.#TeamIndia will glance to bop again within the subsequent sport.

    Scorecard – https://t.co/cuQZ7NHmpB #AUSvIND #B2022 %.twitter.com/p1sn3xS6kj

    — BCCI Girls (@BCCIWomen) July 29, 2022

    The Aussie legspinner Alana King would bowl flat and vast out of doors offstump, and he or she would organize to scoop her one supply, then paddle sweep her the very subsequent simply because the offside used to be being strengthened. This used to be Harman pushing India to a combating, despite the fact that insufficient general of 154, as the fast outfield intended this used to be simply a 180 pitch given the Aussies, who bat deep – to No 11 if their claims are to be believed. However along with her part century, the Indian captain had set it up effectively for her quicks.

    Renuka Singh Thakur, the staff’s best inswing bowler – along with her skiddy prodding motion, transferring the ball off the wicket and within the air, saved India within the sport via her spell – even threatening to disillusioned the mighty Aussies as India began off sensationally, at the again of her 4-18. At 110/7, there used to be a certain buzz across the floor a few imaginable shocker to kick off the Video games, however India had been a snappy quick in pace-friendly prerequisites, and Australia would canter after a certain stutter, with Ash Gardener and Grace Harris seeing them house.

    The T20 layout introduced a delectable last-over bait on which the Video games can hook their additional hard-sell as cricket sidles into multi-sport mainstreaming at the again of being watchable, sellable and most significantly a pull for crowds.

    Fascinating Aussies

    Not like the lads’s staff historical past, the world-beating Australian ladies had been impeccable ambassadors for his or her nation and game, atmosphere prime requirements of competitive cricket, but mightily likeable off it. Ashleigh Gardener, who anchored the stammering chase, comes from the indigenous group of Sydney, and has led the dialog about reconciliation and racist reckonings in Australian game. A multi-faceted girl from the First Countries Folks, she helped design the indigenous taking part in jerseys of the nationwide ladies’s staff, and taken the long-standing problems entrance and centre since she first received Participant of the Collection.

    Seeking to pull Australia out of the trench that they had dug themselves into, Gardner had the sensational Grace Harris (37 off 20), sneaking into the stacked T20 facet after a very long time, for corporate. Harris walked in with a stat swirling in her head that on a mean, successful groups in WT20 misplaced 7 wickets, so she reckoned even at 4-34, the chase used to be on course. She would giggle later that she used to be satisfied the highest order had confronted Renuka Thakur’s four-over-straight spell, and he or she used to be loose to come back down the order and do her factor – with 5 barriers and two sixes.

    The Finisher#AUSvIND #B2022 %.twitter.com/2l42veM9j7

    — cricket.com.au (@cricketcomau) July 29, 2022

    The 28-year-old boisterous big name, later spoke of blending with Aussie carrying royalty on the CWG. “We’ve all the time watched swimmers from again house win large medals. It used to be just right to satisfy them and be on the identical Video games, and in addition be a part of historical past’s first T20 facet on the Commonwealth Video games. “No longer many would be capable to say that,” she mentioned.

    Recognized for her funky socks – towards India it used to be ‘uninteresting identical yellow ones’ albeit with photos of her Dalmatian Dorry. She’s wearing any other purple pair with burgers and fries that she’ll put on on an afternoon she feels comfy to put on the unconventional ones. Requested which Olympic game she beloved essentially the most, she would quip: “Capturing. I do know anyone who’s a medallist and eats an entire bathtub of icecream whilst doing that! That’s the game I wish to play, successful medals!”

    Cricket, although, is banking on its bonafide crowd-pulling skills, and the primary ladies’s sport supplied a variety of drama at Edgbaston. 4 gentlemen of their 60s from Jamnagar, now settled in Birmingham for over 25 years, dropped in for ‘an afternoon of a few cricket’, strolling in for the India-Australia fit from their houses no more than 10 mins from the stadium. Sangan, Khunti, Rupen and Natha Mudvadia have watched cricket on the iconic E for years now, and remembered cheering the groups hoarse when more youthful, however had been enthusiastic about piping up fortify for the Indian ladies. “We’re pensioners now however we nonetheless love our cricket. It’s India vs Australia in any case, ofcourse the Indian ladies have our fortify,” Mudvadia would say.

    For the Italian Nicoliello, it mattered that although T20 used to be scrunching the much-maligned five-day Assessments into 3 hours, the basics of cricket nonetheless implemented. “It’s remarkable that all the way through a sport, two batters within the center play towards 11. That’s 2 vs numerous combatants. It’s wonderful to observe that fight,” he mentioned. There’s all the time one thing new in cricket for everybody to get up to.

  • CWG 2022, Day 1 agenda: India to begin marketing campaign in cricket, boxing, badminton and hockey

    With the outlet rite of the Commonwealth Video games performed and dusted, it’s time to dive headfirst into the occasions correct. The Indian contingent are in a position and pumping, with the eyes of the entire nation on them.

    At the first day of the Video games (July 29), Indian athletes will participate in blended group badminton prelims, ladies’s cricket, ladies’s hockey, spherical 1 & 2 rounds of guys’s in addition to ladies’s desk tennis and the triathlon.

    India vs Australia T20 fit (3.30 pm-7 pm IST)

    The India ladies’s group will start the marketing campaign with a T20 cricket fit towards Australia on Friday. Each the groups had been clubbed in Crew A at the side of Pakistan and Barbados. The Harmanpreet Kaur-led aspect will likely be getting into the fit towards Australia after two contributors in their squad had been left again in India after contracting Covid-19. India will subsequent play Pakistan on July 31 and Barbados on August 3.

    Combined Staff Badminton Prelims (6.30 pm-10 pm IST)

    The blended group badminton prelims will see India lock horns with arch-rivals Pakistan within the team degree. India and Pakistan percentage Crew 1 along Australia and Sri Lanka. There are a complete of 16 groups at Birmingham 2022 divided into 4 teams. The boys’s group for this yr’s quadrennial showpiece options Kidambi Srikanth, Lakshya Sen, Satwiksairaj Rankireddy, Chirag Shetty and B Sumeeth Reddy. In the meantime, PV Sindhu, Aakarshi Kashyap, Treesa Jolly, Gayatri Gopichand and Ashwini Ponappa make the ladies’s group.

    Girls’s hockey (6.30 pm-10 pm IST)

    The Indian ladies’s hockey group hope to hit the bottom operating once they cross up towards Ghana within the first sport on Friday. After a somewhat disappointing Girls’s Global Cup efficiency, the Savita Punia-led group will hope to silence doubters within the Commonwealth Video games. After Ghana, they play Wales prior to enjoying England on August 2. That will likely be their true litmus check prior to rounding off the pod with a fit towards Canada on August 3.

    Desk Tennis (Spherical 1: 2 pm to 7 pm IST, Spherical 2: 8.30 pm-1.30 am IST)

    Earlier than India competes for person occasions, the lads’s and the ladies’s desk tennis group should undergo two stages of qualifying on Friday. Those will all be group occasions. In the event that they qualify, they’ll cross directly to Saturday the place they’ll be enjoying within the third initial qualification spherical. Manika Batra, who received the group gold in addition to the singles gold in CWG 2018, is definitely the big name of the squad. She will likely be ably supported via Diya Chitale, Sreeja Akula and Reeth Rishya. The boys’s group is composed of the wily veteran Achanta Sharath Kamal, Sathiyan Gnanasekaran, Harmeet Desai and Sanil Shetty.

    Triathlon (3.30 pm-8.30 pm IST)

    17-year-old Sanjana Joshi and 27-year-old Pragnya Mohan will likely be representing India within the Triathlon occasions on Friday. In April, Mohan defended her South Asian Champion identify on the 2022 Asia Triathlon Cup and South Asian Championship Pokhara in Nepal. In the similar tournament, Maharashtra’s Joshi completed 2d. In line with their fresh spectacular performances, each triathletes had been decided on to constitute India on the CWG.

    Boxing (9 pm )

    Indian boxer Shiva Thapa (Males’s 63.5kg), Sumit Kundu (Males’s 75kg),Rohit Tokas (Males’s 67kg) and Ashish Chaudhary (Males’s 75kG) will input the hoop of their Spherical of 32 bouts at the opening day of the CWG 2022 at Nationwide Exhibition Centre in Solihull.

    All occasions will likely be telecast on Sony Sports activities Community and can also be streamed on Sony Liv app.

  • India is anticipated to win dozens of medals on the Birmingham CWG. However how does the extent of pageant weigh up towards the Asian Video games?

    With the Commonwealth Video games and Asian Video games being limited-field occasions in some respects –because of historical past and geography respectively – there are sports activities through which medals are harder to earn at one level than the opposite. Some sports activities characteristic international champions on the CWG, whilst some others have Asian powerhouses. As such, the Indian medal hauls in the similar game on the two occasions can range significantly. A have a look at what the Indian contingent can be expecting to stumble upon in quite a lot of sports activities on the two Video games:

    Athletics: Champs in Asia, strugglers at CWG

    Neeraj Chopra gained a silver on the Global Athletics Championship 2022. (Neeraj Chopra/Instagram)

    At the Asian circuit, Indians have finished smartly with China and Japan being the one different main medal contenders. Indians have accrued 254 medals thus far on the Asian Video games with 38 % of individuals completing at the podium within the ultimate version – the 2018 Jakarta Video games.

    However it’s a unique ball sport altogether on the Commonwealth Video games with best contenders like Australia, Canada and England, simply to call a couple of, coming into the image. India has simply 28 medals at CWG. For Olympic champion Neeraj Chopra, the CWG is nearly a replay of the Global Championships with any other face-off with Grenada’s Anderson Peters looking forward to him in Birmingham.

    Boxing: Moderate at each occasions

    Amit Panghal

    India’s place within the all-time medal tally in boxing on the CWG and Asian Video games does no longer see a lot distinction. The rustic is positioned tenth with a complete of 37 medals within the CWG and 8th on the Asian Video games with 57 medals. However considerably, maximum of India’s good fortune on the Asian Video games got here within the overdue Eighties and Nineteen Nineties. Whilst the Indian boxers have gained 8 gold medals on the Commonwealth Video games, the place England leads the all time medal tally with 60 gold, India has gained 9 gold medals on the Asian Video games. Alternatively, on the 2018 version, Indian boxers gained handiest two medals – Amit Panghal’s gold and Vikas Krishan Yadav’s bronze.

    However from the CWG the similar yr, the boxers returned with 9 medals together with 3 gold, 3 silver and 3 bronze medals, together with two medals in girls’s boxing. Whilst the Indian boxers have to stand opposite numbers from international locations like England, Canada, Scotland and Northern Eire in CWG, the principle problem on the Asian degree comes from boxing powerhouses like South Korea, Thailand, Uzbekistan and Kazakhstan.

    Gymnastics: Eyeing an excellent touchdown

    Pranati Nayak (Specific Representation)

    Be it the Commonwealth Video games or the Asian Video games – India has handiest just lately began to make its presence felt. On the 2010 Commonwealth Video games in New Delhi, Ashish Kumar gained a silver and a bronze medal – the rustic’s first-ever in a significant pageant. That used to be adopted through a bronze through Dipa Karmakar within the 2014 version at Glasgow.
    Since then, Indian gymnasts have no longer gained a unmarried medal on the Commonwealth or Asian Video games. Karmakar used to be fourth within the vault tournament on the Asian Video games in 2014 and didn’t make an look in 2018.

    On the 2022 Birmingham Video games, England and Canada are anticipated to dominate. For India, 27-year-old Pranati Nayak, a two-time Asian Championship bronze medallist, will spearhead the contingent. She completed twentieth on the 2014 CWG and 8th within the 2018 version within the particular person segment.

    Hockey: Personal targets galore

    The Manpreet Singh-led Indian crew gained the bronze in Tokyo Video games previous this yr to finish a 41-year medal stay up for the rustic. (Document)

    On the Asian Video games, the boys have steadily choked below power, as noticed within the ultimate version in 2018. India are head and shoulders above the remainder of the continental groups, evidenced through the truth that they’re nearly all the time the one Asian facet pushing for medals at main international occasions. But, their superiority hasn’t all the time mirrored at the area, the place they’ve misplaced out because of foolish errors at the most important junctures.

    Against this, their failure to win the gold medal on the CWG is in large part on account of one crew – Australia, who’ve gained the identify in each and every version. Hockey at CWG has all the time been aggressive because of the presence of England and New Zealand, except Australia, with Pakistan, Malaysia, Canada and South Africa with the ability to spring a marvel.

    The ladies were on an upward curve in each occasions and even if they haven’t come just about matching the gold on the 2002 CWG, they reached their first Asian Video games ultimate after twenty years within the ultimate version, dropping narrowly to Japan. They’ll fancy their probabilities on the subsequent Asian Video games however the CWG may stay a step too a ways, given how robust Australia and England are.

    Weightlifting: 125 medals at CWG, 14 at Asiad

    Olympics medallist Mirabai Chanu. (Document)

    The distinction within the pageant in weightlifting between the CWG and Asian Video games may also be gauged from the truth that India comes 2d with 125 medals, together with 43 gold, at the back of Australia’s medal tally of 159 medals within the all-time medal record of the CWG whilst it has gained handiest 14 medals – 5 silver and 9 bronze – within the historical past of the Asian Video games.

    The ultimate time an Indian weightlifter gained a medal on the Asian Video games used to be in 1998 when Karnam Malleswari gained silver in girls’s 63 Kg class whilst on the ultimate Commonwealth Video games in 2018, India crowned the medal tally within the game with a complete of 9 medals together with 5 gold.

    The principle explanation why for disparity is that powerhouses like China, Iran, South Korea, Japan, North Korea, Kazakhstan and Chinese language Taipei dominate the Asian Video games which characteristic a number of international champions. Come Birmingham, Indian weightlifters are anticipated to dominate sooner than fact hits them at subsequent yr’s Asian Video games with in all probability the exception of Tokyo Olympics silver medallist Mirabai Chanu.

    Desk Tennis: Dwelling in China’s shadow

    Manika Batra (Document)

    The Chinese language are probably the most dominant drive in desk tennis, which makes the Asian Video games a difficult nut to crack. India have gained 20 medals in desk tennis because the game used to be offered on the CWG in 2002 whilst they’ve gained simply two bronze on the Asian Video games thus far. India are eleventh within the desk tennis medal tally on the Asian Video games, whilst they’re 3rd at the back of Singapore (50) and England (20) on the CWG.

    Gold Coast 2018 used to be India’s best-ever display on the CWG with 8 medals. Manika Batra used to be the famous person of the display, successful gold within the girls’s singles, silver in girls’s doubles partnering Mouma Das and bronze within the blended doubles with G Sathiyan. Each the boys’s and girls’s crew gained gold within the crew tournament.

    Wrestling: Laggards in Asia, leaders at CWG

    Indian famous person wrestler Bajrang Punia. (Document)

    On the Commonwealth Video games, India sits lovely in the second one place at the back of Canada, successful a complete of 102 medals together with 43 gold. Relating to the Asian Video games, the location adjustments dramatically – 59 medals general and handiest 11 gold.

    For Indian wrestlers, the choice trials to get into the CWG squad are harder than competing on the Video games themselves, the place since 1970, Indians and Canadians have ruled the development. The struggle for gold throughout classes is in large part between those two international locations, whilst Nigeria has given the Indians a difficult struggle in some girls’s weight categories.

    On the Asiad, Indians were in Iran’s shadow, with South Korea being dominant in males whilst Japan in girls. When Yogeshwar Dutt gained gold in 2014, it used to be for the primary time in 28 years that an Indian wrestler completed on best of the rostrum on the Asian Video games. In 2018, Bajrang Punia and Vinesh Phogat gained titles of their classes, a unprecedented instance when India completed with two gold medals.

    Squash: Higher at CWG than Asian Video games

    Dipika Pallikal clinched a bronze medal in girls’s singles squash at Asian Video games 2018 on August 25. She misplaced her semifinal fit towards the protecting champion from Malaysia, Nicol Ann David. (Supply: Twitter/@DipikaPallikal)

     

    Squash is among the few sports activities the place India has finished higher on the Asian Video games as in comparison to the Commonwealth Video games.

    India has gained a complete of 13 medals on the Asian Video games (1 gold, 3 silver and 9 bronze). In males’s singles, Saurav Ghosal has gained one silver and 3 bronze medals thus far. India’s handiest gold used to be gained through the boys’s crew on the 2014 Incheon Video games.

    It’s other on the Commonwealth Video games the place India has gained simply 3 medals (1 gold and a pair of silver).
    India has but to medal within the singles tournament, despite the fact that the ladies’s doubles pair of Dipika Pallikal and Joshna Chinappa scripted historical past through successful gold in 2014. They adopted it up with a silver in 2018.

  • India-Pakistan cricket fit to be “some of the highlights” of CWG 2022: CEO Ian Reid

    As many as 1.2 million tickets had been offered for the Birmingham Commonwealth Video games starting on July 28, the organisers have stated, including that the ladies’s cricket fit between India and Pakistan has “truly stuck the passion” of the native public.

    Girls’s cricket is making its debut on the Commonwealth Video games, and India and Pakistan might be clashing at Edgbaston on July 31. The town is house to a considerable choice of Indian and Pakistani-origin folks.

    Talking to PTI, Birimgham Video games CEO Ian Reid stated the semifinals and ultimate tickets have already been taken whilst he expects a promote out crowd even for the India-Pakistan fixture.

    “I’m a large cricket fan myself. India are in the similar staff as Pakistan in order that has truly stuck the passion right here in Birmingham. It’s an iconic venue, your males’s staff just lately performed right here over the previous few weeks. So it might for sure be some of the highlights of the Video games,” Reid stated.

    “The semifinals and ultimate tickets have already been offered out most likely with the expectancy that India and England might be there. India and Pakistan might be with reference to capability. We will be able to see an uptick in sale of tickets a lot nearer to the development. So I be expecting that India-Pakistan sport to be offered out quickly.” Greater than 5000 athletes will participate within the Video games which would be the largest wearing match in the United Kingdom for the reason that London Olympics in 2012.

    “We have now offered 1.2 million tickets for the development. We think that quantity to move up as we get nearer to the Video games. So through a long way the most important wearing match in the United Kingdom since London 2012. “We will be able to have about 45,000 volunteers and paid workforce operating at the match. This is a large match for the area and the town,” Reid added.