Commonwealth Games 2022: All you need to know about Indian athletes and women's cricket team schedules

Only one day is left in the start of the Commonwealth Games extravaganza in Birmingham. A total of 215 athletes from India will represent their country in multiple sports. Notably, this number doesn't include India Women's Cricket Team, who will also participate for the first time. After all, cricket returned to the event after 1998. 24 years ago, Men's teams from different countries participated with South Africa clinched the Gold Medal. This time around, the Women's teams are participating.

Meanwhile, India's campaign for medals will start with a Group A game against Australia in cricket on July 29. On the next day, Nitender Rawat will participate in the Men's Marathon event. On July 31, India and Pakistan cricket teams will locks horns and this might be the most watched game in the entire event. After this, multiple athletes from different sports will represent the Asian country on August 2. On the next day, Aishwarya B will represent India in Triple Jump.

On the same day, India cricket team will play their last game against Barbados. India's campaign, according to the current schedule, will end on August 5 and 6. If some of them progress to the medal matches, they will have an opportunity to win a medal.

Athletics Schedule CWG 2022

• 30th July:
• Nitender Rawat (Men’s Marathon)
• 2 August:
• 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)
• 3 August
• Aishwarya B (Women’s Triple Jump)
• 5 August
  Abdulla Aboobacker (Men’s Triple Jump)
  Praveen Chithravel (Men’s Triple Jump)
  Eldhose Paul (Men’s Triple Jump)
  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)
• 6 August
  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)

Cricket Schedule

July 29, India vs Australia 4:30 PM (IST)

July 31, India vs Pakistan 4:30 PM (IST)

August 3, India vs Barbados 11:30 PM (IST)