Commonwealth Games 2022 Day 1 Highlights: Indian Women's Paddlers Crush South Africa 3-0 In Opening Group Match
Birmingham Commonwealth Games 2022 Day 1 Highlights: Indian women's cricket and hockey teams as well as the table tennis stars in the men's and women's team events headline the opening day.
Indian Boxer Shiva Thapa defeats Pakistan Suleman Baloch 5-0 in 63 kg weight class.
Men's Individual (Sprint Distance) Final - India's Adarsh Nair (1:00:38) and Vishwanath Yadav (1:02:52) finish 30th and 33rd respectively.
India's Sajan Prakash in Men's 50m Butterfly finished with a time of 25.01 seconds in the heat. He is 24th overall and misses a place in the semifinals with only the top 16 progressing.
In the Cycling event, team India finishes with a timing of 4:12.865 in the 4000m qualifying round. Canada and New Zealand lead and India stand at third in the qualifying round as of now. Wales, Australia and England to compete
The Indian women's team have won the toss and has decided to bat first against the Australian women's team in the Commonwealth Games 2022.
Sreeja Akula wins her game against Danisha Patel. Sreeja records an 11-5, 11-3, 11-6 victory.
Manika wins the match. 11-2 in the third game as Manika Batra beats Musfiquh Kalam in straight games – 11-5, 11-3, 11-2. India lead 2-0
Manika Batra stuck with her attacking game and cruised to an 11-5 win in the first game.
Manika Batra is up next in the singles rubber of the Group match of the women's team event against South Africa. India leading the tie 1-0.
The Indian pair of Reeth Tennison and Sreeja Akula win their tie 3-0 against Lailaa Edwards and Danisha Jayavant Patel of South Africa in the Women's Table Tennis event.
In the Women's Team Table Tennis Group Match, India win the second game. India's Sreeja and Reeth in the doubles rubber beat the South African duo 11-7.
In the Women's Team Table Tennis Group Match, India's Sreeja and Reeth win the first game against the SA duo 11-7.
India's women's team is taking on South Africa in the Table Tennis event. Manika Batra, Sreeja Akula, Reeth Rishya, and Diya Chitale are taking part in the Women's Table Tennis group game.
India's Reeth Tennison and Sreeja Akula are taking on Lailaa Edwards and Danisha Patel of South Africa first up.
India's Table Tennis squad will begin the defence of its women's team gold with the opening group game against South Africa. The Indian team will feature Diya Parag Chitale, Manika Batra, Reeth Tennison and Sreeja Akula. The match is slated to begin at 2 pm IST.
India's campaign at the Commonwealth Games is underway with the lawn bowls event. Currently, in men's triples Section A Round 1 lawn bowls event, India is squaring off against New Zealand while in women's singles Group B Round 1 event
Background
Birmingham Commonwealth Games 2022 Day 1 Highlights: Hello and welcome to the Commonwealth Games 2022! As the games were officially declared during the Opening Ceremony on July 28th, the CWG 2022 is in action on Day 1. Multiple events where India's participation will be seen as all eyes will be on the Women's cricket team which is making its Commonwealth Games debut. Indian athletes will also be featuring in Badminton, Boxing and table tennis events today.
Commonwealth Games 2022 Day 1 Schedule of Indian Contingent
SWIMMING: Kushagra Rawat - 400m FreeStyle Heats (3:00 pm) Ashish Kumar Singh - 100m BackStroke S9 Heats (3:00 pm) Sajan Prakash - 50m Butterfly Heats (3:00 pm) Srihari Nataraj - 100m BackStroke H (3:00 pm) Kushagra Rawat - (if qualified)- 400m Freestyle Final (1:30 pm) Ashish Kumar Singh - (if qualified)- 100m Backstroke S9 Final (11:30 pm) Sajan Prakash - (if qualified)- 50m Butterfly Semis (11:30 pm) Srihari Nataraj - (if qualified)- 100m Backstroke Semis (11:30 pm) BOXING: Shiva Thapa - men's 63.5kg Round of 32 (5 pm)
GYMNASTICS: Yogeshwar, Satyajit, Saif - men's individual and team qualifying (1:30 pm) Men's team final (if qualified) (10:00 pm) HOCKEY: India v Ghana- Women Group Stage (6:30 pm) LAWN BOWLS: Nayanmoni - Women Singles (1:00 pm) Dinesh, Navneet, Chandan- Men Triples (1:00 pm) Sunil, Mridul- Men Pair Round 1 (7:30 pm) Rupa, Tania, Lovely- Women Four Round 1 (7:30 pm)
SQUASH: Saurav, Ramit, Abhay - Round of 64 (4:30 pm) Joshna, Sunayna, Anahat- Round of 64 (4:30 pm) Men Singles - Round of 64 (10:30 pm) Women Singles - Round of 64 (10:30 pm)
TABLE TENNIS: Men Team - Qualifying Round 1 (2:00 pm) Women Team- Qualifying Round 1 (2:00 pm) Men Team- Qualifying Round 2 (8:30 pm) Women Team- Qualifying Round 2 (8:30 pm)
TRACK CYCLING: Vishwajeet, Naman, Venkappa, Anantha, Dinesh- Men Team Pursuit Qualification (2:30 pm) Mayuri, Triyasha, Shushikala- Women Team Sprint Qualification (2:30 pm) Rojit, Ronaldo, David, Esow- Men Team Sprint Qualification (2:30 pm) Men Team Pursuit Final (if Qualification) (8:30 pm) Women Team Sprint Final (if Qualification) (8:30 pm) Men Team Sprint Final (if Qualification) (8:30 pm)
TRIATHLON: Adarsh, Vishwanath - Men Final (3:30 pm) Sanjana, Pragnya- Women Final (5:30 pm).
BADMINTON: India vs Pakistan - group stage of mixed team event (6:30pm).
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