India will play its first girls’s hockey match on the Commonwealth Video games 2022 in opposition to Ghana on July 29, Friday with the College of Birmingham Hockey and Squash centre internet hosting the occasion.
When will the match happen?
The 2 groups are set to sq. off in opposition to one another at 6:30 pm IST.
India W vs Ghana W head-to-head document
India and Ghana girls have confronted off as soon as earlier than when India defeated Ghana 13-0 throughout the 2014-15 FIH World League at Delhi.
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Going into the Commonwealth Video games, the Indian girls will need to have been haunted by their below-par effort within the not too long ago concluded World Cup in Spain and the Netherlands, the place the Savita Punia-led facet completed ninth.
The Janneke Schopman-coached facet can be determined to show that it's a much better facet than what the current outcomes point out. They'd be itching to show their detractors improper concerning the notion {that a} historic fourth place end in final 12 months’s Tokyo Olympics was a mere fluke.
The Indian girls would even be hoping to interrupt their 16-year medal introduced within the Video games right here. The India’s final medal -- a silver -- in CWG got here in 2006 Melbourne.
The one different medal that Indian girls bagged within the Video games since hockey introduction in 1998 was a gold within the 2002 version in Manchester.
Apart from the sensible Olympic marketing campaign, the Indians would even be boosted by their creditable third place end of their maiden Professional League outing this season.
Whereas it's anticipated to be a cakewalk for India of their opening two pool video games in opposition to world No. 30 Ghana, and world No. 24 Wales (on Saturday), the Savita’s facet will face its first actual problem in opposition to England on August 2 earlier than ending their pool marketing campaign in opposition to No.15 Canada.
The place to look at India vs Ghana, Commonwealth Video games 2022 girls’s hockey match?
The India vs Ghana, Commonwealth Video games 2022 girls’s hockey match will likely be telecast stay on Sony Sports activities Community. Stay streaming will likely be out there on Sony LIV.
India and Ghana girls’s hockey squad
INDIA: Savita Punia (captain and Goalkeeper), Rajani Etimarpu (Goalkeepers), Deep Grace Ekka (vice-captain), Gurjit Kaur, Nikki Pradhan, Udita, Nisha, Sushila Chanu Pukhrambam, Monika Malik, Neha Goyal, Jyoti, Navjot Kaur, Salima Tete, Vandana Katariya, Lalremsiami, Navneet Kaur, Sharmila Devi, Sangita Kumari
GHANA: Azumah Bridget (Goalkeeper) , Boakye Serwaa, Coffie Ernestina, Copson Hagiet , Umaru Nafisatu (Captain) Sulemana Adizatu, Amoako Cecilia, Opoku Elizabeth, Afriyie Lydia , Sarfoa Martha, Berko Mavis, Narkuor Vivian, Boye Abigai (Goalkeeper)
(with inputs from PTI)
