It is finally time that India will be witness to six of their finest wrestlers take the mat and unleash the best out of them. Sakshi Mallik, who also happens to be an Olympic medallist will headline India’s wrestling campaign alongside Bajrang Punia who is leading the men’s wrestling team.
Birmingham| Team India is all geared up for the 8th day of the multi-national sporting event. After a decent day 7 and will one gold and one silver in athletics and powerlifting, the participating members of the Indian contingency will want to emerge victorious and contribute towards improving India’s standing on the leaderboard.
It is finally time that India will be witness to six of their finest wrestlers take the mat and unleash the best out of them. Sakshi Mallik, who also happens to be an Olympic medallist will headline India’s wrestling campaign alongside Bajrang Punia who is leading the men’s wrestling team. In addition to all the wrestling action, team Indi will be seen participating in para table tennis. With Bhavina Patel and Sonalben Patel playing each of the two semi-finals in Women’s Singles Classes 3-5, team India is assured of a medal. On the other hand, Raj Aravindan Alagar will be seen in action in one of the two semi-finals of men’s classes 3-5.
After fetching the gold in the quartet Lawn Bowl event, the women’s pair lawn bowls team is ready to take on England in the quarter-finals and are absolute favorites to qualify for the semi-finals and the finals. The Indian women’s hockey team is also geared up to take on Australia in the semi-finals.
Here is India’s complete schedule for day 8
Lawn Bowls: England vs India-Women’s Pair Quarter-Finals (1:00 PM IST)
Para Table Tennis: Nasiru Sule (Nigeria) vs Raj Aravindan Alagar (02:40 PM IST)
Para Table Tennis: Bhavina Hasmukhbhai Patel vs Sue Bailey (England) – Women’s Singles Classes 3-5 semi-finals (02:40 PM IST)
Para Table Tennis: Sonalben Manubhai Patel vs Christiana Ikpeoyi (Nigeria) – Women’s Singles Classes 3-5 semi-finals (02:40 PM IST)
Athletics: Jyothi Yarraji – Women’s 100m Hurdles Round 1 (02:56 PM IST)
Wrestling: Mohit Grewal vs TBD – Men’s Freestyle 125 KG (03:00 PM IST)
Wrestling: Bajrang Punia vs TBD – Men’s Freestyle 65 KG (03:00 PM IST)
Wrestling: Deepak Punia vs TBD – Men’s Freestyle 86 KG (03:00 PM IST)
Wrestling: Anshu Malik vs TBD – Women’s Freestyle 57 KG (03:00 PM IST)
Wrestling: Sakshi Malik vs TBD – Women’s Freestyle 62 KG (03:00 PM IST)
Wrestling: Divya Kakran vs TBD – Women’s Freestyle 68 KG (03:00 PM IST)
Badminton: Kidambi Srikanth vs TBD – Men’s Singles Round of 16 (03:30 PM IST)
Badminton: PV Sindhu vs Husina Kobugabe (Uganda) – Women’s Singles Round of 16 (03:30 PM IST)
Badminton: Satwik Sairaj Rankireddy / Chirag Shetty vs TBD – Men’s Doubles Round of 16 (03:30 PM IST)
Badminton: Jolly Treesa / Gayatri Gopichand vs Leung For Sang Jemimah / Mungrah Ganesha (Mauritius) – Women’s Doubles Round of 16 (03:30 PM IST)
Athletics: Amoj Jacob, Noah Nirmal Tom, Arokia Rajiv, Muhammed Ajmal, Naganathan Pandi, Rajesh Ramesh – Men’s 4x400m Relay Round 1 (04:07 PM IST)
Athletics: Ancy Sojan – Women’s Long Jump Qualifying Round (04:10 PM IST)
Table Tennis: Batra Manika / Chitale Diya Parag vs Chung Rheann / Spicer Catherine (04:30 PM IST)
Table Tennis: Achanta Sharath Kamal vs Finn Luu – Men’s Singles Round of 32 (05:05 PM IST)
Men’s Doubles Squash: Velavan Senthilkumar/Abhay Singh vs Kempsell Douglas/ Alan Clyne Round of 16 (05:15 PM IST)
Table Tennis: Sathiyan Gnanasekaran vs Paul Mccreery – Men’s Singles Round of 32 (05:45 PM IST)
Table Tennis: Sanil Shetty vs Derek Agrefa – Men’s Singles Round of 32 (05:45 PM IST)
Table Tennis: Akula Sreeja / Tennison Reeth vs Elliott Lucy / Plaistow Rebecca (09:30 PM IST)
Squash: Dipika Pallikal/Saurav Ghosal vs Grinham Rachael/Alexander Zac – Mixed Quarter-Final (12:00 AM IST)
Hockey: India vs Australia – Women’s Semi-Finals (00:45 AM IST)
Athletics: Hima Das – Women’s 200m Semi-Final (00:45 AM)
News Sources – India TV News
