Asian Games 2026 Live Updates: India eye medals in teqball, capturing; hockey, cricket campaigns start – The Occasions of India
Quimcy Dsouza has two medal possibilities
Teqball participant Quimcy Joaquim Dsouza can have two alternatives to win a medal for India on Sunday. She will first compete within the ladies’s singles bronze-medal match towards Japan’s Yuina Sakamoto. Quimcy will then group up with Mohamed Anas Imran Beg within the combined doubles bronze-medal match. They will face Vietnam’s Hoang Minh Tan Nguyen and Gia Nghi Trinh.
The Indian pair had misplaced to the Vietnamese mixture within the quarterfinals. They will now have one other likelihood to complete on the rostrum.
Shooters eye medals
India may also have medal hopes within the ladies’s 10m air rifle competitors. Elavenil Valarivan, Sonam Uttam Maskar and Vidarsa Ok Vinod will compete within the occasion. The particular person qualification and girls’s group medal occasion will start at 6:15 AM IST. The particular person closing is scheduled for later within the morning, topic to qualification.
India ladies face Bangladesh in semifinal
The Indian ladies’s cricket group will tackle Bangladesh within the second semifinal of the ladies’s T20 competitors at 10:30 AM IST. India will look to achieve the ultimate and proceed its bid to defend the gold medal it gained on the 2022 Asian Games.
Hockey groups start campaigns
India’s males’s and girls’s hockey groups may also begin their Asian Games campaigns on Sunday. The Indian ladies’s group will face Uzbekistan in its Pool B match at 7:30 AM IST. The males’s group will then tackle Indonesia in its Pool A opener at 11:30 AM IST.
Badminton, desk tennis and wushu
India’s desk tennis groups may also be busy, with the ladies’s group dealing with Indonesia and Singapore, whereas the lads’s group will tackle Indonesia and Iran of their group matches.
The Indian ladies’s badminton group will start its marketing campaign towards Kazakhstan within the first spherical.
In wushu, Aparna will compete within the ladies’s 52kg Round of 16, whereas Vikrant Baliyan will characteristic within the males’s 75kg Round of 16.
The males’s Changquan closing may also be a medal occasion on Sunday.
With medal alternatives in teqball, capturing and wushu, together with key matches in cricket and hockey, September 20 shall be a busy day for the Indian contingent on the Asian Games.
