Birmingham | Team India is all set for the 8th day of the multinational sporting event. After a good 7 days and a gold and a silver in athletics and powerlifting, the participating members of the Indian contingent would like to emerge victorious and contribute to improving India’s position on the leaderboard.
The time has finally come for India to witness six of its finest wrestlers and bring out the best among them. Sakshi Mallick, who is also an Olympic medalist, will headline India’s wrestling campaign alongside Bajrang Punia who is leading the men’s wrestling team. Apart from all the wrestling action, the team will be seen participating in Indy Para Table Tennis. With Bhavna Patel and Sonalben Patel playing in each of the two semi-finals in the women’s singles category 3-5, Team India has been assured a medal. Raj Aravindan Alagar, on the other hand, will be seen in action in one of the two semi-finals of the men’s section 3-5.
After winning the gold medal in the Quartet Lawn Bowl event, the women’s pair lawn balls team is set to take on England in the quarter-finals and are the absolute favorites to qualify for the semi-finals and final. The Indian women’s hockey team is also set to take on Australia in the semi-finals.
Here is the complete India schedule for Day 8
- lawn bowls: England vs India Women’s pair Quarter-Final (1:00 PM IST)
- Para Table Tennis: Naseeru Sule (Nigeria) vs Raj Aravindan Alagar (02:40 PM IST)
- Para Table Tennis: Bhavna Hasmukhbhai Patel vs Sue Bailey (England) – Women’s Singles 3-5 Semi-Final (02:40 PM IST)
- Para Table Tennis: Sonalben Manubhai Patel vs Kristiana Ikpoyi (Nigeria) – Women’s Singles 3-5 Semi-Final (02:40 PM IST)
- Athletics: Jyoti Yaraji – Women’s 100m Hurdles Round 1 (02:56 PM IST)
- Wrestling: Mohit Grewal vs TBD – Men’s Freestyle 125kg (03:00 PM IST)
- Wrestling: Bajrang Punia vs TBD – Men’s Freestyle 65kg (03:00 PM IST)
- Wrestling: Deepak Punia vs TBD – Men’s Freestyle 86kg (03:00 PM IST)
- Wrestling: Anshu Malik vs TBD – Women’s Freestyle 57kg (03:00 PM IST)
- Wrestling: Sakshi Malik vs TBD – Women’s Freestyle 62kg (03:00 PM IST)
- Wrestling: Divya Kakran vs TBD – Women’s Freestyle 68kg (03:00 PM IST)
- Badminton: Kidambi Srikanth vs TBD – Men’s Singles Round of 16 (03:30 PM IST)
- Badminton: PV Sindhu vs Husina Kobugabe (Uganda) – Women’s Singles Round of 16 (03:30 PM IST)
- Badminton: Satwik Sairaj Rankireddy / Chirag Shetty vs TBD – Men’s Doubles Round of 16 (03:30 PM IST)
- Badminton: Jolly Treesa / Gayatri Gopichand vs Leung Sang Jemimah / Mungra Ganesh (Mauritius) – Women’s Doubles Round of 16 (03:30 PM IST)
- Athletics: Amoz Jacob, Noah Nirmal Tom, Arokia Rajeev, Mohammad Ajmal, Nagnathan Pandi, Rajesh Ramesh – Men’s 4x400m relay Round 1 (04:07 IST)
- Athletics: Ansei Sojen – Women’s Long Jump Qualifying Round (04:10 PM IST)
- Table Tennis: Batra Manika / Chitale Diya Parag vs Chung Riyan / Spicer Catherine (04:30 PM IST)
- Table Tennis: Achanta Sharath Kamal vs Fin Lu – Men’s Singles Round of 32 (05:05 PM IST)
- Men’s Doubles Squash: Velavan Senthilkumar / Abhay Singh vs Kempsell Douglas / Alan Klein Round of 16 (05:15 PM IST)
- Table Tennis: Sathiyan Gnanasekaran vs Paul McCreery – Men’s Singles Round of 32 (05:45 PM IST)
- Table Tennis: Sanil Shetty vs Derek Agrefa – Men’s Singles Round of 32 (05:45 PM IST)
- Table Tennis: Akula Sreeja / Tennyson Reith vs Elliot Lucy / Plasto Rebecca (09:30 PM IST)
- Squash: Dipika Pallikal/Sourav Ghoshal vs Grinham Rachel/Alexander Zack – Mixed Quarter-Final (12:00 AM IST)
- Hockey: India vs Australia – Women’s Semifinal (00:45 AM IST)
- Athletics: Hima Das – Women’s 200m Semi-Final (00:45 AM)