As anticipated, the Indian wrestlers produced a memorable performance on the opening day of their CWG 2022 campaign in Birmingham adding six medals to India’s tally of which three were gold. Bajrang Punia, Deepak Punia and Sakshi Malik won gold in their respective categories while Anshu Malik took silver in what was her CWG debut.
Divya Kakran clinched a bronze as did Mohit Grewal meaning Indian wrestlers won medals in all the categories they participated on Friday. Overall, India now have 26 medals (excluding the ones confirmed by the boxers). Of these, 9 are gold, 8 silver and 9 bronze.
It’s going to be another busy day for the Indian contingent with a host of athletes taking part in various disciplines including 9 in wrestling. In women’s cricket, India will play England in the semi-final while in men’s hockey, India will face South Africa for a place in the final.
Following is India’s schedule at the Commonwealth Games for Saturday.
All timings in Indian Standard Time (IST)
ATHLETICS AND PARA ATHLETICS
Women’s F55-57 Shot Put Final: Poonam Sharma, Sharmilam, Santosh – 2:50 pm
Women’s 10,000m Race Walk Final: Priyanka, Bhawana Jat- 3 pm
Men’s 3000m Steeplechase Final: Avinash Sable – 4:20 pm
Women’s Tea 4x100m Relay round 1, Heat 1: Hima Das, Dutee Chand, Shrbani Nanda, NS Simi – 4:45 pm
Women’s Hammer Throw Final: Manju Bala – 11:30 pm
Men’s 5000m Final: Avinash Sable – 12:40 am
LAWN BOWLS
Men’s fours, final: India vs Northern Ireland – 4:30 pm
SQUASH
Men’s doubles, quarterfinal: V Senthilkumar/Abhay Singh vs Yow Eain Ng/Wern Chee Yuen – 5:15 pm
Mixed doubles, semifinal: Dipika Pallikal/Saurav Ghosal vs Joelle King/Paul Coll – 6 pm
BADMINTON
Women’s singles quarterfinals: PV Sindhu vs Jin Wei Goh – 4:20 pm
Women’s singles quarterfinals: Akarshi Kashyap vs Kirsty Gilmour – 6 pm
Men’s singles quarterfinals: Kidambi Srikanth vs Toby Penty – 10 pm
Men’s singles quarterfinals: Lakshya Sen vs Paul Georges – 10 pm
Women’s doubles quarterfinals: Treesa Jolly and Gayatri Gopichand Tahlia Richardson/Katherine Wynter – 10:50 pm
Men’s doubles quarterfinals: Chirag Shetty/Satwiksairaj Rankireddy vs Schueler/Nathan – 11:40 pm
BOXING
Women’s Minimumweight (45-48kg) semifinal: Nitu Ghangas vs Priyanka Dhillon – 3 pm
Men’s Flyweight (48kg-51kg) semifinal: Amit Panghal vs Patrick Chinyemba – 3:30 pm
Women’s Light Flyweight (48kg-50kg) semifinal: Nikhat Zareen vs Savannah Stubley – 7:15 pm
Women’s Lightweight (57kg-60kg) semifinal: Jaismine vs Gemma Richardson – 8 pm
Men’s Featherweight, semifinal: Mohammad Hussamuddin vs Joseph Commey – 11:30 pm
Men’s Welterweight (63.5kg-67kg) semifinal: Rohit Tokas vs Stephen Zimba – 12:45 pm
Super Heavyweight (over 92kg) semifinal: Sagar vs Ifeanyi Onyekwere – 1:30 am
CRICKET
Women’s T20 semi-final: India vs England – 3:30 pm
HOCKEY
Men’s team semi-final: India vs South Africa – 10:30 pm
TABLE TENNIS AND PARA TABLE TENNIS
Women’s doubles round of 16: Akula Sreeja/Reeth Tennison vs Anna Chloe Thomas Wu Zang/Lara Whitton- 2 pm
Women’s doubles round of 16: Manika Batra/Diya Parag Chitale vs Oumehani Hosenally/Nandashwaree Jalim – 2 pm
Men’s Singles quarterfinal: Sharath Kamal vs Quek Izaac Yong – 2:40 pm
Men’s singles quarterfinal: G Sathiyan vs Sam Walker – 3:25 PM IST
Men’s singles quarterfinal: Sanil Shetty vs Liam Pitchford – 3:25 PM IST
Women’s singles semifinal: Sreeja Akula vs Tianwei Feng – 4:10 PM IST
Men’s doubles semifinal: Sharath Kamal/G Sathiyan vs Nicholas Lum/Finn Luu – 4:55 PM IST
Mixed doubles semifinals: Achanta Sharath Kamal/ Akula Sreeja vs Nicholas Lum/Minhyung Jee – 6 pm
Women’s doubles quarter-final* – 8:30 PM IST
PARA BADMINTON
Men’s Singles Classes 3-5: Bronze Medal Match: Raj Aravindan Alagar vs Isau Ogunkunle – 6:15 pm
Women’s Singles Classes 3-5 Bronze medal match: Sonalben Patel vs Sue Bailey- 12:15 am
Women’s Singles Classes 3-5 Gold medal match: Bahvina Patel vs Christina Ikpeoyi – 1 am
WRESTLING (starts at 3 pm)
Men’s Freestyle 57kg quarterfinals: Ravi Kumar vs Suraj Singh
Men’s Freestyle 97kg quarterfinals: Deepak Nehra vs Randhawa
Women’s Freestyle 76kg quarterfinals: Pooja Sihag vs Montague
Women’s Freestyle 53 kg – Nordic System match 1: Vinesh Phogat vs Mercy
Women’s Freestyle 50 kg – Nordic System match 1:Pooja Gehlot vs Lemofack
Men’s Freestyle 74kg 1/8 Final: Naveen vs Ogbonna John
Women’s Freestyle 53 kg – Nordic System match 2: Vinesh Phogat vs Samantha
Women’s Freestyle 50 kg – Nordic System match 2:Pooja Gehlot vs Ndolo
Women’s Freestyle 53 kg – Nordic System match 3: Vinesh Phogat vs Keshani
