All-rounder Harmanpreet Kaur will lead a 15-member Indian team in the maiden women`s cricket competition at the 2022 Commonwealth Games in Birmingham starting on July 28, the BCCI announced on Monday (July 11). Opener Smriti Mandhana will be her deputy in the competition that will feature women’s T20Is.


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“The All-India Women’s Selection Committee met on Monday to pick the squad for the forthcoming 2022 Commonwealth Games in Birmingham. This will be the first time that Women’s T20 International will be featured in the prestigious multi-sport event,” BCCI secretary Jay Shah informed in a release.


India is in Group A with Australia, Barbados, and Pakistan. Sri Lanka, England, New Zealand, and South Africa are placed in Group B. The top two teams from the respective pools will progress to the semifinals. India is scheduled to play three games in the league stage of the tournament starting July 29, the release said.


Indian athletes will aiming for a successful Commonwealth Games 2022 which will get begin in Birmingham from July 28. India have done well at the CWG historically. At the 2018 Gold Coast Games, India finished the campaign with 26 gold medals, 20 silver medals and 20 bronze medals. They were third on the list of behind leaders Australia and England.


Not to forget, Indians clinched a record 7 medals at the Tokyo Olympics 2020 and huge expectations will be from the likes of Neeraj Chopra and Mirabai Chanu in the Birmingham Games scheduled to be held from July 28 to August 8.



Athletics


India named a 37-member athletics squad for the Birmingham Commonwealth Games including Neeraj Chopra, Dutee Chand and Hima Das.


Avinash Sable - men's 3000m steeplechase


Nitender Rawat - men's marathon


M Sreeshankar - men's long Jump


Muhammed Anees Yahiya - men's long Jump


Abdulla Aboobacker - men's triple jump


Praveen Chithravel - men's triple jump


Eldhose Paul - men's triple jump


Tajinderpal Singh Toor - men's shot put


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


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


Dhanalakshmi Sekar - women's 100m and 4x100m relay


Jyothi Yarraji - women's 100m hurdles


Aishwarya B - women's long jump and triple jump


Ancy Sojan - women's long jump


Manpreet Kaur - women's shot put


Navjeet Kaur Dhilllon - women's discus throw


Seema Punia - women's discus throw


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


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


PV Sindhu (women's)


Aakarshi Kashyap (women's)


Treesa Jolly (women's)


Gayatri Gopichand (women's)


Ashwini Ponappa (women's)


Lakshya Sen (men's)


Kidambi Srikanth (men's)


Satwiksairaj Rankireddy (men's)


Chirag Shetty (men's)


B Sumeeth Reddy (men's)


Boxing


Commonwealth Games medallists Amit Panghal and Mohammad Hussamuddin made the cut for Birmingham 2022 along with five-time Asian medallist Shiva Thapa.


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


Jaismine - women's 60kg


Lovlina Borgohain - women's 70kg


Cricket


Birmingham 2022 will see cricket’s second appearance in the CWG programme. The first, at Kuala Lumpur 1998, featured a men’s 50 over tournament but at Birmingham 2022, a women’s T20I format will be played.



Squad: Harmanpreet Kaur (C), Smriti Mandhana (VC), Shafali Verma, S Meghana, Taniyaa Sapna Bhatia (Wk), Yastika Bhatia (Wk), Deepti Sharma, Rajeshwari Gayakwad, Pooja Vastrakar, Meghna Singh, Renuka Thakur, Jemimah Rodrigues, Radha Yadav, Harleen Deol, Sneh Rana; Standby: Simran Dil Bahadur, Richa Ghosh, Poonam Yadav.


Hockey


Both the Indian men’s and women’s hockey teams have already made the cut for the Commonwealth Games 2022 based on their FIH rankings. The men’s and women’s hockey competitions will be 10-team affairs.


Indian women had won the CWG hockey gold in 2002 but the men are still in search of their first, with two silver medals (2010 and 2014) being their best finishes to date.


Indian women's hockey squad


Goalkeepers: Savita Punia (captain), Rajani Etimarpu


Defenders: Deep Grace Ekka (vice captain), Gurjit Kaur, Nikki Pradhan, Udita


Midfielders: Nisha, Sushila Chanu Pukhrambam, Monika, Neha, Jyoti, Navjot Kaur, Salima Tete


Forwards: Vandana Katariya, Lalremsiami, Navneet Kaur, Sharmila Devi, Sangita Kumari


Indian Men’s Team for CWG:


GOALKEPERS


1. Sreejesh P.R.


2. Krishan Bahadur Pathak


DEFENDERS


3. Varun Kumar


4. Surender Kumar


5. Harmanpreet Singh (VC)


6. Amit Rohidas


7. Jugraj Singh


8. Jarmanpreet Singh


MIDFIELDERS


9. Manpreet Singh (C)


10. Hardik Singh


11. Vivek Sagar Prasad


12. Shamsher Singh


13. Akashdeep Singh


14. Nilakanta Sharma


FORWARDS


15. Mandeep Singh


16. Gurjant Singh


17. Lalit Kumar Upadhyay


18. Abhishek


Table Tennis


The Indian table tennis team for Birmingham 2022 comprises eight players, four men and four women. The team was chosen after a week-long national camp late in May.


Achanta Sharath Kamal (men's)


Sathiyan Gnanasekaran (men's)


Sanil Shetty (men's)


Harmeet Desai (men's)


Manika Batra (women's)


Diya Chitale (women's)


Sreeja Akula (women's)


Reeth Rishya (women's)


Weightlifting


To be led by Tokyo Olympics silver medallist and reigning Commonwealth champion Mirabai Chanu, India’s 12-member strong weightlifting contingent for the Commonwealth Games 2022 was one of the first to be finalised.


Mirabai Chanu - women’s 49kg


Bindyarani Devi - women’s 55kg


Popy Hazarika - women’s 59kg


Usha Kumara - women’s 87kg


Purnima Pandey - women’s +87kg


Sanket Mahadev - men’s 55kg


Chanambam Rishikanta Singh - men’s 55kg


Jeremy Lalrinnunga - men’s 67kg


Achinta Sheuli - men’s 73kg


Ajay Singh - men’s 81kg


Vikas Thakur - men’s 96kg


Ragala Venkat Rahul - men’s 96kg


Wrestling


The following wrestlers made the Indian team by winning their respective categories at the selection trials.


Pooja Gehlot - women’s 50kg


Vinesh Phogat - women’s 53kg


Anshu Malik - women’s 57kg


Sakshi Malik - women’s 62kg


Divya Kakran - women’s 68kg


Pooja Sihag - women’s 76kg


Ravi Kumar Dahiya - men's 57kg


Bajrang Punia - men's 65kg


Naveen - men's 74kg


Deepak Punia - men's 86kg


Deepak - men's 97kg


Mohit Grewal – men’s 125kg


Swimming


Sajan Prakash and Srihari Nataraj will lead a four-member Indian swimming team at the CWG. The other two members of the team are Kushagra Rawat and MP's Advait Page.