The Indian contingent for the Commonwealth Games 2022 will look to improve the country's medal tally in the mega event which will kick start on July 29. This will be the 22nd edition of the game first played in 1930 in Hamilton, Canada. India is regarded as one of the strongest competitors in CWG 2022, even though Shooting is not part of the sports roster. England, Australia, Canada and New Zealand are the other top medal contenders.


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India's men's Hockey team led by Manpreet Singh and the Indian Women’s cricket team captained by Harmanpreet Kaur will be in action on Day 1. In squash, Sourav Ghoshal and Josahana Chinappa are India's top medal contenders while in Boxing Shiva Thapa will be one to watch out for. 


Commonwealth Games 2022 Day 1


July 29, 2022


Lawn Bowl - 05:30 pm IST


Indian players in action 


Sunil Bahadur


Chandan Kumar Singh


Navneet Singh


Dinesh Kumar


Mridul Borgohain


Pinki


Tania Choudhury


Rupa Rani Tirkey


Nayan Moni Saikia


Lovely Choubey


Table Tennis - 06:30 pm IST


Men’s and Womens’Team Event Qualification Round 1


Indian players in action 


Women’s Table Tennis Team: Manika Batra, Sreeja Akula, Reeth Rishya, Diya Chitale


Men’s Table Tennis Team: Sharath Kamal, Gnanasekaran Sathiyan, Harmeet Desai, Sanil Shetty


Swimming - 07:30 pm IST


Indian players in action 


Sajan Prakash


Srihari Nataraj


Kushagra Rawat


Cricket, Women’s T20I - 08:00 pm IST


Australia vs India Group Match


Triathalon Women's Individual (Sprint Distance) Final - 08:00 pm IST


Indian players in action 


Sanjana Joshi


Pragnya Mohan


Boxing - 09:00 pm IST


Indian players in action 


Shiva Thapa- Men’s Lightwelter Round of 32


Sumit Kundu- Men’s 75 Kg Round of 32


Squash - 09:00 pm IST


Indian players in action 


Men’s Singles- Ramit Tandon, Sourav Ghoshal, Abhay Singh


Women’s Singles- Joshna Chinappa, Anahat Singh, Sunayna Kuruvilla


Badminton - 11:00 pm IST


Mixed Team Event Qualifying Round 1- India vs Pakistan


Boxing - 03:30 am IST


Men’s 67 KG- Rohit Tokas


Men’s 75 KG- Ashish Chaudhary


Men’s Hockey


India vs Ghana