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Qualifying matches for the Africa Cup of Nations which were scheduled for September have been pushed back to March next year to help the continent's teams prepare for the World Cup in Qatar, AFP learned Thursday.
Commonwealth Games gets underway on Friday in Birmingham. The Indian contingent will have a huge number of events lined up on the first day of the CWG.
The Indian contingent will be in action on Day 1 of the Commonwealth Games 2022 in Birmingham. The Indian athletes will participate in singles, pairs and team events at the multi-disciplined games. India will miss star javelin thrower Neeraj Chopra, who pulled out of the tournament due to a thigh issue. India women's cricket team will also be action on Day 1 as they face gold medal favourites Australia in a Group A game at Edgbaston. The women's hockey team will also open their campaign with a Group game against minnows Ghana.
A podium finish on its mind, the Indian women's hockey team would look to bury the ghosts of a disastrous World Cup campaign by steam-rolling minnows Ghana in the Commonwealth Games opener on Thursday. The Indian women are clubbed in Pool A alongside hosts England, Canada, Wales and Ghana, while Australia, South Africa, New Zealand, Scotland and Kenya complete Pool B. Just like their male counterparts, the Indian women returned empty-handed from the last edition of the Games in Gold Coast, finishing fourth after being routed 0-6 by England in the bronze medal play-off match.
ACCRA : Ghana will play Switzerland in a pre-World Cup friendly in the United Arab Emirates in the immediate build-up to the tournament in Qatar.
It's a transition period for Canadian field hockey. After years of a similar group leading the way, the Birmingham 2022 Commonwealth Games will showcase a new chapter as younger athletes take the reins.
Commonwealth Games (CWG) 2022 journey with the game against Ghana on Thursday. The Indian women's team is clubbed in Pool A alongside hosts England, Canada, Wales and Ghana, while Australia, South Africa, New Zealand, Scotland and Kenya complete Pool B. Just like their male counterparts, the Indian women returned empty-handed from the last edition of the Games in Gold Coast, finishing fourth after being routed 0-6 by England in the bronze medal play-off match. Going into the Games, the Indian women must have been haunted by their below-par effort in the recently concluded World Cup in Spain and the Netherlands, where the Savita Punia-led side finished a disappointing ninth. And the Janneke Schopman-coached side would be desperate to prove that it is a far better side than what the recent results indicate. They would be itching to prove their detractors wrong about the perception that a historic fourth place finish in last year's Tokyo Olympics was a mere fluke.
Men's hockey team eyes medal after having returned empty-handed last timeBENGALURU: The script for the Indian men's hockey at the Commonwealth Games hasn't panned out the way they would have wished for. Since the introduction of the sport at the quadrennial event in 1998, Australia have won gold on all six occasions. India came close twice - in 2010 and 2014 - before being outplayed by the team from Down Under. This edition of the event beginning in Birmingham on Friday was not on the priority list until the Asian Games were postponed by a year. With a full squad and an eye on bettering their performance in the competition, Manpreet Singh and Co landed in Birmingham earlier this week. Having lost to England 1-2 in the bronze medal playoff and returned empty-handed in 2018, India are keen to make amends.