Commonwealth Games 2022, Birmingham: Full schedule of Indians in action on Day 1

The opening ceremony of the 22nd edition of the commonwealth games is set to begin hours from now. The mega sporting event will span over 12 days. The sporting stars will be in the action from tomorrow after the opening ceremony scheduled later tonight. The Indian contingent is represented by a dynamic pack of 213 athletes including 103 women.

All eyes will be on the Indian Women’s team led by Harmanpreet Kaur against the World Champions Australia in the group stage on the inaugural day. Besides, the cricket team, India’s female hockey team will start on a high on Friday, keeping aside all their lows from Tokyo last year. In the individual category, child prodigy, 14-year-old squash player Anahat Singh will also be in the action on the 1st day. 

Other sporting events include:

• Men’s Pairs – Sunil Bahadur, Mridul Borgohain

• Men’s Triples – Dinesh Kumar, Navneet Singh, Chandan Singh

• Women’s Singles - Nayanmoni Saikia

• Women’s Fours – Rupa Tirkey, Tania Choudhury, Lovely Choubey, Pinki/Nayanmoni Saikia

• Men’s Team Qualifiers – Harmeet Desai, Sanil Shetty, Sharath Achanta, Sathiyan Gnanasekaran

• Women’s Team Qualifiers – Diya Chitale, Manika Batra, Reeth Tennison, Sreeja Akula

• 400m freestyle – Kushagra Rawat

• 100m backstroke – Srihari Nataraj

• 100m backstroke S9 – Ashish Kumar

• 50m butterfly – Sajan Prakash

• Group Stage – Australia vs India

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• Men’s – Adarsh M.S., Vishwanath Yadav

• Women’s – Sanjana Joshi, Pragnya Mohan

• Men’s 63.5 kg – Shiva Thapa

• Men’s 67 kg – Rohit Tokas

• Men’s 75 kg – Sumit Kundu

• Men’s 80 kg – Ashish Kumar

• Men’s singles – Saurav Ghosal, Ramit Tandon, Abhay Singh

• Women’s singles – Joshna Chinappa, Sunayna Kuruvilla, Anahat Singh

• Mixed Team (Group Stage) – India vs Pakistan

• Women’s Group Stage – India vs Ghana