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.