India’s schedule for the Commonwealth Games

At the 2022 Commonwealth Games in Birmingham commencing today 28 July, India will be represented by 205 athletes, competing in 15 different sports.

With Neeraj Chopra, who was intended to be India’s flag bearer, out of the competition, the Indian Olympic Association (IOA) has chosen badminton star PV Sindhu and Manpreet Singh, the captain of the men’s hockey team, to step in for the opening ceremony on Friday morning (Australian time).

PV Sindhu, two-time Olympic medalist, Kidambi Srikanth, silver medallist in the World Championship in December 2021 and Lakshya Sen, bronze medallist in the World Championship are some of the star athletes who are competing.

Here is a breakdown of when the Indian athletes are competing:

29^th July:

Badminton:

• Ashwini Ponnappa (Mixed Doubles)
• B Sumeeth Reddy (Mixed Doubles)

Cricket:

• India vs Australia

Hockey (Women’s)

• India vs Ghana

Table tennis (men’s and women’s both)

• Round 1 & Round 2

30^th July:

Athletics:

• Nitender Rawat (Men’s Marathon)

Boxing:

• Amit Panghal (Men’s 51kg)
• Mohammad Hussamuddin (Men’s 57kg)
• Shiva Thapa (Men’s 63.5kg)
• Rohit Tokas (Men’s 67kg)
• Sumit Kundu (Men’s 75kg)
• Ashish Chaudhary (Men’s 80kg)
• Sanjeet (Men’s 92kg)
• Sagar (Men’s 92+kg)
• Nitu (Women’s 48kg)
• Nikhat Zareen (Women’s 50kg)
• Jasmine (Women’s 60kg)
• Lovlina Borgohain (Women’s 70kg)

Women’s hockey:

• India vs Wales

Table tennis (Men’s)

• Round 3

Table tennis women-

• Round 3
• Quarterfinals

Weightlifting:

• Mirabai Chanu (Women’s 55kg)
• Sanket Mahadev (Men’s 55kg)
• Chanambam Rishikanta Singh (Men’s 55kg)

31^st July:

Cricket

• India vs Pakistan

Hockey (men’s):

• India vs Ghana

table tennis:

• Men’s Quarterfinals
• Women’s semifinals

Weightlifting:

• Bindyarani Devi (Women’s 59kg)
• Jeremy Lalrinnunga (Men’s 67kg)
• Achinta Sheuli (Men’s 73kg)

1^st August:

Hockey:

• India vs England (men’s)

Table tennis:

• Men’s Semifinals
• Women’s finals

Weightlifting:

• Popy Hazarika (Women’s 64kg)
• Ajay Singh (Men’s 81kg)

2^nd August:

Athletics:

• Avinash Sable (Men’s 3000m Steeplechase)
• Murali Sreeshankar (Men’s Long Jump)
• Muhammed Anees Yahiya (Men’s Long Jump)
• Dhanalakshmi Sekar (Women’s 100m)
• Jyothi Yarraji (Women’s 100m hurdles)
• Manpreet Kaur (Women’s Shot Put)
• Navjeet Kaur Dhillon (Women’s Discus Throw)

Hockey:

• Womens- India vs England

Table tennis:

• Men’s Finals

Weightlifting:

• Usha Kumara (Women’s 87kg)
• Purnima Pandey (Women’s 87+kg)
• Vikas Thakur (Men’s 96kg)
• Ragala Venkat Rahul (Men’s 96kg)

3^rd August:

Athletics:

• Aishwarya B (Women’s Triple Jump)

Badminton:

• P. V. Sindhu (Women’s Singles)
• Aakarshi Kashyap (Women’s Singles)
• Lakshya Sen (Men’s Singles)
• Kidambi Srikanth (Men’s Singles)

Cricket:

• India vs Barbados

Hockey:

• Men’s- India vs Canada
• Women’s- India vs Canada

4^th August:

Badminton:

• Treesa Jolly (Women’s Doubles)
• Gayatri Gopichand (Women’s Doubles)
• Satwiksairaj Rankireddy (Men’s Doubles)
• Chirag Shetty (Men’s Doubles)

Hockey:

• Men’s- India vs Wales

5^th August:

Athletics:

• Abdulla Aboobacker (Men’s Triple Jump)
• Praveen Chithravel (Men’s Triple Jump)
• Eldhose Paul (Men’s Triple Jump)
• Neeraj Chopra (Men’s Javelin Throw) (Withdrawn from competition)
• DP Manu (Men’s Javelin Throw)
• Rohit Yadav (Men’s Javelin Throw)
• Sandeep Kumar (Men’s 10km race walk)
• Amit Khatri (Men’s 10km race walk)
• Aishwarya B (Women’s Long Jump)
• Ancy Sojan (Women’s Long Jump)
• Annu Rani (Women’s Javelin Throw)
• Shilpa Rani (Women’s Javelin Throw)
• Manju Bala Singh (Women’s Hammer Throw)
• Sarita Romit Singh (Women’s Hammer Throw)

Wrestling:

• Bajrang Punia (Men’s 65kg)
• Deepak Punia (Men’s 86kg)
• Mohit Grewal (Men’s 125kg)
• Anshu Malik (Women’s 57kg)
• Sakshi Malik (Women’s 62kg)
• Divya Kakran (Women’s 68kg)

6^th August:

Athletics

• Amoj Jacob (Men’s 4x400m relay)
• Noah Nirmal Tom (Men’s 4x400m relay)
• Arokia Rajiv (Men’s 4x400m relay)
• Muhammed Ajmal (Men’s 4x400m relay)
• Naganathan Pandi (Men’s 4x400m relay)
• Rajesh Ramesh (Men’s 4x400m relay)
• Bhawna Jat (Women’s 10km race walk)
• Priyanka Goswami (Women’s 10km race walk)
• Hima Das (Women’s 4x100m relay)
• Dutee Chand (Women’s 4x100m relay)
• Srabani Nanda (Women’s 4x100m relay)
• MV Jilna (Women’s 4x100m relay)
• NS Simi (Women’s 4x100m relay)

Wrestling:

• Ravi Kumar Dahiya (Men’s 57kg)
• Naveen (Men’s 74kg)
• Deepak (Men’s 97kg)
• Pooja Gehlot (Women’s 50kg)
• Vinesh Phogat (Women’s 53kg)
• Pooja Sihag (Women’s 76kg)