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After the Asia Cup in cricket, the focus now moves on the 2023 Asian Games. India will be intending to scale brand-new heights at the Asian Games 2023 after registering their best-ever medal count at the 2018 edition. The 2023 edition of the Asian Games will begin on September 23 in China’s Hangzhou and will go on till October 8. The 19th edition of the Asian Games will witness a 655-member strong Indian group in action in 41 disciplines out of 61. The video games will be played throughout 56 locations, with 481 gold medals available, according to Olympics.com.
The video games will formally begin on September 23, sports like cricket, football, beach ball and beach volley ball will start from September 19 onwards.
Cricket
First Game: India Women’s vs TBD – September 21
The males’s and females’s cricket groups, led by Ruturaj Gaikwad and Harmanpreet Kaur will be making their launching at the continental level occasion. The ladies’s group will begin its project on September 21 and the last will be on September 25. After this, the males’s cricket groups will start their projects from September 27 and the title clash will occur on October 7. Indian guys’s group will play its very first match on October 3.
Football
Male’s: India vs China (September 19, 5 PM IST) and India vs Bangladesh (September 21, 1:30 PM IST)
Women’s: India vs Chinese Taipei (5 PM)
The Indian guys’s group is being led by Sunil Chhetri. Numerous leading gamers are missing out on from the guys’s group.
Volley ball
Guy’s: India vs South Korea (September 20, 4:30 PM IST)
The males’s volley ball group will likewise be in action on September 20. The discipline begins on September 19 and will go on October 7.
Sports
India will field a contingent of 68 gamers in track and field occasions, this will be India’s biggest representation in the sport. Olympic and World Champion Neeraj Chopra will be India’s greatest face at the occasion, intending to duplicate his gold-winning heroics in Jakarta in 2018. Sports competitors will be held from September 29 to October 5, with the males’s javelin toss last on October 4 as its most significant tourist attraction due to India’s ‘Golden Boy’ Neeraj.
Neeraj is not the only Olympic medalist from India as badminton star PV Sindhu, fighter Lovlina Borgohain, wrestler Bajrang Punia and weightlifter Mirabai Chanu are likewise dipping into the Asian Games. The Tokyo 2020 Olympic bronze-winning guys’s hockey group is likewise playing.
Badminton
Badminton competitors will be held from September 28 to October 7, with Sindhu leading the 19-member Indian group which will include Commonwealth champs Lakshya Sen and HS Prannoy, who is likewise the bronze medalist at the Badminton World Federation (BWF) World Championships held last month.
Weightlifting
Tokyo 2020 silver medalist Chanu, a previous World Champion also will be making her Asiad launching in females’s 49 kg weight-lifting on September 30. Tokyo 2020 bronze medalist Bajrang Punia, the safeguarding champ in males’s 65 kg freestyle fumbling will use October 6.
Boxing
Boxing at the Asian Games will be a certifying occasion for the Paris Olympics next year. Two-time and present world champ Nikhat Zareen will start her project in ladies’s 50 kg from September 24 and Lovlina will represent India in females’s 75 kg from September 26 onwards. Boxing competitors will end on October 5.
Hockey
The hockey competitors will likewise function as a Paris 2024 Olympics qualifier, with Indian hockey groups going for gold each, which will provide a direct ticket to next year’s multi-sport extravaganza. The males’s hockey occasion will start from September 24 and the Indian ladies’s hockey group will play from September 25.
Hurdler Jyothi Yarraji, steeplechase racer Avinash Sable, long jumper Murali Sreeshankar, previous Asian champ fighter Shiva Thapa, Indian table tennis stars Manika Batra, Sharath Kamal and teen chess prodigy R Praggnanandhaa are some other prominent gamers who will be in action.
The video games were initially slated for 2022 however were delayed due to the COVID-19 pandemic in China in 2015. India had actually signed up 70 medals in 2018 at Jakarta, their finest tally to date.
With ANI inputs
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