India had a good start day of competition at the 2022 Birmingham Commonwealth Games on Friday. As the Indian women’s hockey and mixed badminton teams won their opening matches 5–0, the women’s cricketers suffered a narrow defeat.
Renuka Thakur’s disastrous 4/18 spell went in vain as Ashleigh Gardner’s unbeaten 52 helped Australia beat India by three wickets in her first Group A match of the Women’s T20 event. Captain Harmanpreet Kaur hit 52 off 34 balls and opener Shafali Verma hit 48 off 33 balls, Renuka’s scintillating opening knocked out Australia’s top four and Deepti Sharma (2-26) slammed Rachel Haynes was dismissed, Australia were in deep trouble. at 49-5. But Gardner smashed an unbeaten 52 off 35 balls, scoring 47 runs with Grace Harris (37 off 20 balls) and Alana King (18 not out), hitting nine fours under pressure to give Australia a resounding victory on cricket’s return to cricket. . In a multi-sport event. They were also helped by the fact that apart from Renuka and Deepti, the rest of the Indian bowling attack had an off day.
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things were much easier For the Indian badminton team in the mixed team competition, as he sent in heavyweight, two-time Olympic medalist PV. Sindhu and World Championships silver medalist Kidambi Srikanth as well as the doubles pair of Satwiksairaj Rankireddy and Chirag Shetty as India beat Pakistan 5-0 in their opening round pool.
The mixed doubles pair of B Sumeeth Reddy and Ashwini Ponnappa set the ball rolling for India as it defeated Pakistan’s Mohammad Irfan Saeed Bhatti and Ghazala Siddiqui 21-8, 21-12 in straight games.
Srikanth then took to the court at NEC Hall No 5, to outperform Murad Ali, suffering a 21-7, 21-12 loss in his second consecutive Commonwealth Games. World Number seven PV Sindhu registered the win for India as she defeated Mahur Shahzad 21-7, 216 in double quick time.
With an unassailable 3-0 win in the tie with India, the world No.8 men’s doubles pair of Satwiksairaj Rankireddy-Chirag Shetty and the women’s pair of Treesa Jolly-Gayatri Gopichand also registered a win and tied India, taking maximum points from the whitewash. helped in their opponents.
Indian women’s table tennis team started his defense It won the title four years earlier at the Gold Coast, beating South Africa and Fiji by equal 3–0 margins, with Manika Batra and Sreeja Akula leading in their Group 2 preliminary round matches. In the men’s team event, Achinta Sharath Kamal and Sathiyan Gnanasekaran gave India an easy 3-0 win over Barbados and the mighty Singapore in their opening matches. Bo’s teams have made it to the quarter-finals.
women’s hockey team won his match against minnows Ghana, it missed many chances and could only win 5-0 as Gurjit Kaur scored a goal each from Neha, Sangeeta Kumari and Salima Tete.
Swimmer Srihari Nataraja clocked 54.68 s. Qualify for Semifinals In the men’s 100m backstroke event, however, veteran Sajan Prakash and debutant Kushagra Rawat failed to reach the semi-finals of their events respectively.
Shiv Thapa started his Commonwealth Games campaign by defeating Sulaiman Baloch of Pakistan 5-0 by unanimous decision In the first round of 63.5 kg category.
in squashIndia’s youngest member of the squad, Anahata Singh, defeated Saint Vincent and Jada Ross of the Grenadines 11-5, 11-2 11-0 in the preliminary round of the squash women’s singles 64. In the men’s singles event, Abhay Singh made short work as Joe Champan of the British Virgin Islands won 11-5, 11-5, 11-5.
in cyclingThe Indian men’s and women’s sprint teams failed to qualify for the finals at the Commonwealth Games along with the Indian men’s 4000m pursuit team.
Pragya Mohan finished 26th with a timing of 1:07:27 as Sanjana Sunil Joshi finished 28th in the women’s individual (sprint distance) with a timing of 1:09:00.
in lawn bowlingIndia’s Tania Choudhary lost to Scotswoman D Hogan 10-21 in her opening section B round of the women’s singles event as the Indian men’s triple unit suffered a 21-6 loss to New Zealand in the opening round of the men’s triple lawn bowling event. fell.
In artistic gymnastics, India finished the third subdivision with an overall score of 108.9. Yogeshwar Singh picked 11.3 in his floor exercise routine, 11.2 on pommel horse, 11.950 on rings, 13 in vault, 13.450 in parallel bar and 12.7 in horizontal bar. Syed Tamboli added 14.05 points with his performance on the parallel bars, while Satyajit Mandal scored 7.85 with his floor exercises and 13.4 in the vault.
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