India at Commonwealth Games: Commonwealth Games 2022: India seeks to up medal tally in action-packed sixth day

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After a historic day yesterday at the Commonwealth Games in Birmingham where the women’s lawn bowls team won the first-ever gold medal in the event and the men’s TT team defended their gold against Singapore, the Indian contingent is looking for another action-packed day and some medals are up for grabs.

India’s athletes will compete in the women’s shot put final, men’s high-jump final, lawn bowls, and boxing. Advait Page, Kushagra Rawat will also feature in men’s 1500m freestyle swimming final. The women’s cricket T20 team will face Barbados later tonight.

The day’s action will also be dominated by the weightlifting events, featuring Lovpreet Singh, Purnima Pandey and Gurdeep Singh. Squash player Saurav Ghosal will seek to beat England’s James Wiltrop for a bronze medal.

Following is India’s schedule at the Commonwealth Games on the sixth day. All timings in Indian Standard Time (IST)

Athletics:

Women’s Shot Put final – Manpreet Kaur (12.35 am on Thursday)

Men’s high jump final – Tejaswin Shankar (11.30 pm IST)

Men’s Discus Throw Final – Aneesh Kumar Surendran Pillai, Devendra Gahlot, Devender Kumar (1:15 am IST on Thursday)

Boxing:

Women

45kg-48 kg (minimum weight) – quarterfinals -Nitu Ganghas (4.45 pm)

48-50 kg (light flyweight) – quarterfinals – Nikhat Zahreen (11.15 PM)

66-70 kg (light middleweight) -quarter-finals – Lovlina Borgohain (12.45 am on Thursday)

Men

54-57 kg (featherweight) – quarterfinals – Hussam Uddin Mohammed (5.45 pm)

75-80 kg (light heavyweight) – quarter-finals – Ashish Kumar (2.00 AM on Wednesday)

Cricket:
Women’s T20 – India versus Barbados – 10.30 PM IST

Hockey:

Women’s Pool A – India versus Canada 03.30 PM IST

Men’s Pool B – India versus Canada – 06.30 PM IST

Judo:
Women’s 78kg quarter-finals – Tulika Mann – 2.30 PM IST onwards

Men’s 100kg elimination round of 16 – Deepak Deswal – 2.30 PM IST onwards

Lawn Bowls:
Men’s Singles – Mridul Borgohain – 1 PM IST and 4 PM IST

Women’s Pair – India versus Niue – 1 PM IST and 4 PM IST

Men’s Four – India versus Cook Islands and England – 7.30 PM IST and 10.30 PM IST

Women’s Triple – India versus Niue (07.30 PM IST )

Women’s Pairs – India vs South Africa (4 PM IST)

Men’s Four – India vs England (10:30 PM IST)

Swimming:

Men’s 1500m Freestyle Final – Advait Page, Kushagra Rawat (12:42 am IST onwards on Thursday)

Squash:

Men’s Singles Bronze Medal Match – Saurav Ghoshal vs James Wiltrop (Eng) (9:30 PM IST)

Mixed Doubles round of 32 versus Sri Lanka – 03.30 PM IST

Women’s Singles – Sunanya Kuruvilla vs Mary Fung-A-Fat (2:30 PM)

TT:

Women’s Singles – Baby Sahana Ravi vs Faith Obazuaye (NGR) – (3:10 PM IST)

Women’s Singles – Sonalben Manubhai Patel vs Sue Bailey (ENG) – (3:10 PM IST)

Women’s Singles – Bhavina Hasmukhbhai Patel – Daniela di Toro (AUS) – (3:10 PM IST)

Men’s Singles – Raj Aravindan Alagar – George Wyndham (SLE) – (4:55 pm IST)

Women’s Singles – – Baby Sahana Ravi vs Gloria Gracia Wong (SZE) (9:40 pm IST)

Women’s Singles – Bhavina Hasmukhbhai Patel vs Ifechukwude Christiana Ikpeoyi (NGR) – (10:15 pm IST)

Women’s Singles – Sonalben Manubhai Patel – Amanda Jane Tscharke (AUS) – 10:15 pm IST

Men’s Singles – Raj Aravindan ALAGAR vs Isau Ogunkunle (NGR) – (12:00 AM IST/Thursday)

Weightlifting:

Men’s 109 kg – Lovpreet Singh – 02.00 PM IST

Women’s 87kg – Purnima Pandey – 06.30 PM IST

Men’s 109 kg – Gurdeep Singh – 11 PM IST.

(With inputs from PTI)

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