With the opening ceremony of the Commonwealth Games carried out and dusted, it’s time to dive headfirst into the occasions correct. The Indian contingent are prepared and pumping, with the eyes of the entire nation on them.
On the primary day of the Games (July 29), Indian athletes will participate in combined staff badminton prelims, ladies’s cricket, ladies’s hockey, spherical 1 & 2 rounds of males’s in addition to ladies’s desk tennis and the triathlon.
India vs Australia T20 match (3.30 pm-7 pm IST)
The India ladies’s staff will start the marketing campaign with a T20 cricket match in opposition to Australia on Friday. Both the groups have been clubbed in Group A together with Pakistan and Barbados. The Harmanpreet Kaur-led facet will probably be coming into the match in opposition to Australia after two members of their squad have been left again in India after contracting Covid-19. India will subsequent play Pakistan on July 31 and Barbados on August 3.
Mixed Team Badminton Prelims (6.30 pm-10 pm IST)
The combined staff badminton prelims will see India lock horns with arch-rivals Pakistan within the group stage. India and Pakistan share Group 1 alongside Australia and Sri Lanka. There are a complete of 16 groups at Birmingham 2022 divided into 4 teams. The males’s staff for this 12 months’s quadrennial showpiece options Kidambi Srikanth, Lakshya Sen, Satwiksairaj Rankireddy, Chirag Shetty and B Sumeeth Reddy. Meanwhile, PV Sindhu, Aakarshi Kashyap, Treesa Jolly, Gayatri Gopichand and Ashwini Ponappa make the ladies’s staff.
Women’s hockey (6.30 pm-10 pm IST)
The Indian ladies’s hockey staff hope to hit the bottom working once they go up in opposition to Ghana within the first sport on Friday. After a relatively disappointing Women’s World Cup efficiency, the Savita Punia-led staff will hope to silence doubters within the Commonwealth Games. After Ghana, they play Wales earlier than taking part in England on August 2. That will probably be their true litmus check earlier than rounding off the pod with a match in opposition to Canada on August 3.
Table Tennis (Round 1: 2 pm to 7 pm IST, Round 2: 8.30 pm-1.30 am IST)
Before India competes for particular person occasions, the lads’s and the ladies’s desk tennis staff must undergo two phases of qualifying on Friday. These will all be staff occasions. If they qualify, they’ll go on to Saturday the place they’ll be taking part in within the third preliminary qualification spherical. Manika Batra, who gained the staff gold in addition to the singles gold in CWG 2018, is definitely the star of the squad. She will probably be ably supported by Diya Chitale, Sreeja Akula and Reeth Rishya. The males’s staff consists 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 probably be representing India within the Triathlon occasions on Friday. In April, Mohan defended her South Asian Champion title on the 2022 Asia Triathlon Cup and South Asian Championship Pokhara in Nepal. In the identical occasion, Maharashtra’s Joshi completed second. Based on their current spectacular performances, each triathletes have been chosen to characterize India on the CWG.
Boxing (9 pm )
Indian boxer Shiva Thapa (Men’s 63.5kg), Sumit Kundu (Men’s 75kg),Rohit Tokas (Men’s 67kg) and Ashish Chaudhary (Men’s 75kG) will enter the ring of their Round of 32 bouts on the opening day of the CWG 2022 at National Exhibition Centre in Solihull.
All occasions will probably be telecast on Sony Sports Network and will be streamed on Sony Liv app.