Asian Games 2026, Day 3: Women’s cricket closing, capturing, badminton in focus

Aichi-Nagoya [Japan], September 22 (ANI): Indian athletes shall be in motion throughout a number of disciplines on September 22 on the 2026 Asian Games, with a shot at second successive gold medal in girls’s cricket, badminton quarter-finals and capturing occasions among the many key highlights of the day.

The Indian girls’s cricket workforce will face Sri Lanka within the closing on the Korogi Athletic Park, with the match scheduled to start at 2:00 PM JST (10:30 AM IST).

In badminton, the Indian girls’s workforce that includes PV Sindhu, Unnati Hooda, Devika Sihag, Tanvi Sharma, isharani Baruah, Treesa, Gayatri and others will tackle hosts Japan within the quarter-final on the Ichinomiya City Municipal Gymnasium. The match is scheduled for 9:30 AM JST (6:00 AM IST).

The males’s badminton workforce comprising Lakshya Sen, Ayush Shetty, HS Prannoy, Kidambi Srikanth, Satwiksairaj Rankireddy, Chirag Shetty and different gamers can even face Japan within the quarter-final later within the day. The match will begin at 3:00 PM JST (11:30 AM IST).

Shooting can even be a significant focus, with Parth Rakesh Mane and Elavenil Valarivan competing within the 10m Air Rifle Mixed Team occasion. The duo will participate within the qualification spherical at 9:45 AM JST (6:15 AM IST), adopted by the ultimate spherical at 11:55 AM JST (8:25 AM IST).

Indian shooters can even compete within the Skeet occasions, with Anantjeet Singh Naruka, Bhavtegh Singh Gill and Mairaj Ahmad Khan that includes within the males’s particular person and workforce qualification rounds. Parinaaz Dhaliwal, Raiza Dhillon and Maheshwari Chauhan will take part within the girls’s skeet qualification occasions.

India will tackle Sri Lanka in males’s Hockey Pool A match on 3:30 PM. The males’s workforce had began their marketing campaign towards Indonesia with a 13-1 win. 

Sakshi Choudhary (girls’s 51 kg at 9:00 AM) and Jadumani Singh (males’s 55 kg at 10:30 AM) can even have their respective spherical of 32 matches.

Apart from these occasions, Indian athletes will compete in fencing, wushu, swimming, equestrian, karate, comfortable tennis, desk tennis and esports throughout the day. The schedule is topic to vary. (ANI)