India's medal rush continues at the ongoing Commonwealth Games (CWG) and Day 8's limelight was hogged by star wrestlers (Anshu Malik, Bajrang Punia, Sakshi Malik, Deepak Punia, Divya Kakran, Mohit Grewal) who added three gold, one silver and two bronze to the country's medal tally which now stands at 26.
The ninth Day will see several events where several Indian stars will be eyeing medal glory. Indian women's cricket team will lock horns with England in the semi-final clash while Indian men's hockey team will face South Africa.
Let's have a look at India's schedule at the Commonwealth Games on the ninth day on Saturday (August 6):
ATHLETICS AND PARA ATHLETICS:
Women's F55-57 Shot Put Final: Poonam Sharma, Sharmilam, Santosh- 2:50pm Women's 10,000m Race Walk Final: Priyanka, Bhawana Jat- 3pm Men's 3000m Steeplechase Final: Avinash Sable- 4:20pm Women's 4x100m Relay Round 1- Heat 1: Hima Das, Dutee Chand, Srabani Nanda, NS Simi- 4:45pm Women's Hammer Throw Final: Manju Bala- 11:30pm Men's 5000m Final: Avinash Sable - 12:40am.
BADMINTON
Women's doubles quarterfinals: Treesa Jolly and Gayatri Gopichand Women's singles quarterfinals: PV Sindhu Men's singles quarterfinals: Kidambi Srikanth.
BOXING
Women's Minimumweight (45-48kg) semifinal: Nitu - 3PM Men's Flyweight (48kg-51kg) semifinal: Amit Panghal 3:30PM Women's Light FLyweight (48kg-50kg) semifinal: Nikhat Zareen 7:15PM Women's Lightweight (57kg-60kg): Jaismine- 8pm Men's Werlterweight (63.5kg-67kg): Rohit Tokas - 12:45pm Super heavyweight (over 92kg):Sagar 1:30am.
CRICKET
Women's T20 semifinal between India and England- 3:30pm
HOCKEY
Indian men's team semi-final against South Africa- 10:30pm
TABLE TENNIS AND PARA TABLE TENNIS
Women's Doubles Round of 16: Akula Sreeja/Reeth Tennison- 2pm Women's Doubles Round of 16: Manika Batra/Diya Parag Chitale- 2pm Mixed Doubles semifinals: Achanta Sharath Kamal/ Akula Sreeja- 6pm Men's Singles Classes 3-5: Bronze Medal Match: Raj Aravindan Alagar- 6:15pm Women's Singles Classes 3-5 Bronze medal match: Sonalben Patel- 12:15am Women's Singles Classes 3-5 Gold medal match: Bahvina Patel - 1am.
WRESTLING
Bouts start at starts at 3pm - Men's Freestyle 57kg quarterfinals: Ravi Kumar Men's Freestyle 97kg quarterfinals: Deepak Nehra Women's Freestyle 76kg quarterfinals: Pooja Sihag Women's Freestyle 53 kg - Nordic System match 3: Vinesh Phogat Women's Freestyle 50 kg - Nordic System match 3:Pooja Gehlot Men's Freestyle 74kg 1/8 Final: Naveen Women's Freestyle 53 kg - Nordic System match 2: Vinesh Phogat Women's Freestyle 50 kg - Nordic System match 1:Pooja Gehlot - 3pm Women's Freestyle 53 kg - Nordic System match 6: Vinesh Phogat.
Lawn Bowls
Indian Lawn Bowls men's fours final: Sunil Bahadur, Navneet Singh, Chandan Singh and Dinesh Kumar.
