Hockey at Birmingham Commonwealth Video games 2022: Full schedule, format, squads, venue, timings

Hockey has been a part of the Commonwealth Video games since 1998 and can see groups battle for victory for over 60 minutes. Australia has been essentially the most profitable facet, profitable the gold medal in all of the six CWG editions (in males) and 4 gold medals (in ladies).

India, however, has been one of the vital constant performers with the lads’s crew profitable two silver medals (2010, 2014) and the ladies profitable a gold (2002) and a silver medal (2006).

Transient guidelines

Success in placing the ball within the opponent's web ends in a objective. Fouls right here, are of three sorts — free hit, penalty stroke and penalty nook. Two umpires, one in every half, adjudicate the matches and might punish offenders with inexperienced, yellow or crimson playing cards.

Inexperienced is an official warning, yellow directs gamers to remain out of play for 5 minutes, whereas a crimson forces an early exit for the participant.

Collaborating groups

Ten groups are collaborating in Birmingham, divided into two teams of 5 each crew will play the opposite in a round-robin format. India is positioned in Group A in ladies’s hockey and in Group B in males’s hockey.

Schedule, venue and timings

Each the lads’s and ladies’s groups will begin their campaigns in opposition to Ghana, with the latter taking part in on July 29 and the previous on July 31 respectively.

The College of Birmingham Hockey and Squash centre in Birmingham will host all of the matches of hockey for the Commonwealth Video games 2022.