The Commonwealth Games 2022 gets underway on July 28 in Birmingham, UK, but the shadow of the controversial omission of shooting from the tournament will loom large as far as India is concerned.
The CWG have been a happy hunting ground for the largest nation in the Commonwealth. A top-five finisher since the 2002 edition, India has relied a lot on shooting which was dropped from the Birmingham Games programme. In the Gold Coast Games four years ago, shooters won 25 per cent of India's total medals of 66 and the sport had contributed seven gold.
Athletics, in which India has won only 28 medals in the event's 72-year-old history, was expected to be a dark horse this time but Olympic champion Neeraj Chopra's late pullout due to injury has come as a huge setback.
A bagful of medals are expected in weightlifting, badminton, boxing, wrestling and table tennis but will they be enough to offset the loss caused by shooting's absence? The coming days will tell.
Here is the complete schedule of the Indian contingent ahead of the multi-nation event.
ATHLETICS
July 30
Nitender Rawat (Men’s Marathon)
August 2
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)
August 3
Aishwarya B (Women’s Triple Jump)
August 5
Abdulla Aboobacker (Men’s Triple Jump)
Praveen Chithravel (Men’s Triple Jump)
Eldhose Paul (Men’s Triple Jump)
Neeraj Chopra (Men’s Javelin Throw)
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)
August 6
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)
BADMINTON
July 29
Ashwini Ponnappa (Mixed Doubles)
B Sumeeth Reddy (Mixed Doubles)
August 3
P.V. Sindhu (Women’s Singles)
Aakarshi Kashyap (Women’s Singles)
Lakshya Sen (Men’s Singles)
Kidambi Srikanth (Men’s Singles)
August 4
Treesa Jolly (Women’s Doubles)
Gayatri Gopichand (Women’s Doubles)
Satwiksairaj Rankireddy (Men’s Doubles)
Chirag Shetty (Men’s Doubles)
BOXING
July 30
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)
CRICKET
July 9
India vs Australia
July 31
India vs Pakistan
August 3
India vs Barbados
HOCKEY
Men's
July 32
India vs Ghana
August 1
India vs England
August 3
India vs Canada
August 4
India vs Wales
Women's
July 29
India vs Ghana
July 30
India vs Wales
August 2
India vs England
August 3
India vs Canada
TABLE TENNIS
Men’s Team
July 29:
Round 1 & Round 2
July 30:
Round 3
July 31:
Quarterfinals
August 1:
Semifinals
August 2:
Finals
Women’s Team events Schedule
July 29:
Round 1 & Round 2
July 30
Round 3
July 30
Quarterfinals
July 31
Semifinals
August 1
Finals
WEIGHTLIFTING
July 30
Mirabai Chanu (Women’s 55kg)
Sanket Mahadev (Men’s 55kg)
Chanambam Rishikanta Singh (Men’s 55kg)
July 31
Bindyarani Devi (Women’s 59kg)
Jeremy Lalrinnunga (Men’s 67kg)
Achinta Sheuli (Men’s 73kg)
August 1
Popy Hazarika (Women’s 64kg)
Ajay Singh (Men’s 81kg)
August 2
Usha Kumara (Women’s 87kg)
Purnima Pandey (Women’s 87+kg)
Vikas Thakur (Men’s 96kg)
Ragala Venkat Rahul (Men’s 96kg)
WRESTLING
August 5
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)
August 6
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)
