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England's Dina Asher-Smith out of Commonwealth Games with hamstring injury

Commonwealth Games in Birmingham after picking up a hamstring injury, Team England said in a statement on Wednesday. The sprinter sustained the injury to her left hamstring during the women's 4x100m relay final at the World Championships in Eugene, Oregon.

In the absence of shooting, India hopes to make 'surprise' gains in CWG 2022

Commonwealth Games will be threatened in shooting's absence while the Birmingham 2022 organisers would look to deliver a successful sporting spectacle after a challenging build-up. The opening ceremony at the Alexander Stadium on Thursday evening will mark the beginning of the sporting extravaganza that remains huge in scale but is fighting to remain relevant. The UK is hosting the mega event for the third time in the last 20 years with the Commonwealth Games Federation (CGF) unable to attract new bidders out of the 56 countries that made up the sporting body due to cost constraints. The CGF has 72 members but is made up of 56 countries. Birmingham too was rather a late entry in the bidding for the the 2022 edition after South Africa expressing its inability to stage the event back in 2017. "We need to make the Games more affordable and take it to cities which are yet to host them," Birmingham 2022 CEO Ian Reid told PTI.

'Are we capable of beating Australia? 100% we are, but it's going to be super tough': Viren Rasquinha looks ahead to India's hockey medal chances at CWG 2022

The next assignment for both teams are the Commonwealth Games in Birmingham and both units will have a point or two to prove. In the last edition in 2018 India didn't win a medal in hockey. Neither team could make the gold medal match and then both lost the bronze medal match to English teams (the men lost to England 2-1, the women lost to England 6-0). Ahead of CWG 2022, former India hockey captain Viren Rasquinha was a guest on Times of India's sports podcast Sportscast and talked about various things, including medal chances of both the men's and women's teams this time.