With the Asian Games 2023 having formally begun, India might be aiming to open their medal tally on Sunday (September 24) in Hangzhou. India have purchased a 655-member contingent to China for the multi-sports continental occasion, with heavy expectations.

The Indian rowing staff might be competing in 5 completely different medal occasions on Sunday. The highlight might be on Arjun Lal Jat and Arvind Singh, who might be taking part within the six-boat males’s light-weight double sculls Final A. Meanwhile, the Indian males’s double sculls, girls’s coxless 4, males’s coxless pair, males’s coxed eight groups can even be participating in medal races.

The India girls’s cricket staff could have the prospect to substantiate a medal, in the event that they defeat Bangladesh within the semi-finals on Sunday. Meanwhile, the boys’s and girls’s soccer groups might be in motion.

Indian boxer Nikhat Zareen will start her Asian Games marketing campaign within the girls’s 50kg class, taking up Vietnam’s Thi Tam Nguyen, whom she defeated within the World Championship remaining in March this 12 months. Shooters Ashi Chouksey, Mehuli Ghosh and Ramita can even be in motion, with medal probabilities within the girls’s 10m air rifle capturing occasions.

Here is India’s total schedule for Asian Games 2023 on Sunday (September 23):

Boxing

Women’s 54kg Round of 16: Preeti Pawar (IND) vs Silina Alhasanat (JOR) – 11:45 AM IST

Women’s 50kg Round of 32: Nikhat Zareen (IND) vs Thi Tam Nguyen (VIE) – 4:30 PM IST

Cricket

Women’s semi-final 1: India vs Bangladesh – 6:30 AM IST

Chess

Men’s Individual rounds 1 and a pair of (Vidit Gujrathi and Arjun Erigaisi) – 12:30 PM IST onwards

Women’s particular person rounds 1 and a pair of (Koneru Humpy and Harika Dronavalli) – 12:30 PM IST onwards

Esports

FC Online Round of 32 and bracket matches (Charanjot Singh and Karman Singh Tikka) – 8:00 AM IST onwards

Football

Women’s first spherical Group B: India vs Thailand – 1:30 PM IST

Men’s first spherical Group A: India vs Myanmar – 5:00 PM IST

Fencing

Men’s foil particular person (Dev and Bibish Kathiresan) – 6:30 AM IST onwards

Women’s epee particular person (Ena Arora and Taniksha Khatri) – 10:00 AM IST onwards

Hockey

Preliminary Men’s Pool A: India vs Uzbekistan – 8:45 AM IST

Modern Pentathlon

Men’s staff: Mayank Vaibhav Chaphekar – 3:00 PM IST

Rugby sevens

Women’s Pool F: India vs Hong Kong China – 10:00 AM IST

Women’s Pool F: India vs Japan – 3:35 PM IST

Rowing

Women’s light-weight double sculls Final B (Kiran, Anshika Bharti) – 6:30 AM IST

Medal occasion: Men’s light-weight double sculls Final A (Arjun Lal Jat, Arvind Singh) – 7:10 AM IST

Medal occasion: Men’s double sculls Final A (Parminder Singh, Satnam Singh) – 8:00 AM IST

Medal occasion: Women’s coxless 4 Final A (Aswathi PB, Mrunamayee Nilesh S, Thangjam Priya Devi, Rukmani) – 8:20 AM IST

Medal occasion: Men coxless pair Final A (Babu Lal Yadav, Lekh Ram) – 8:40 AM IST

Medal occasion: Men’s coxed eight Final A (Charanjeet Singh, DU Pande, Naresh Kalwaniya, Neeraj, Neetesh Kumar, Ashish, Bheem Singh, Jaswinder Singh, Punit Kumar) – 9:00 AM IST

Sailing

Qualifying races in a number of classes (a number of athletes) – 8:30 AM IST onwards

Shooting

Women’s 10m air rifle qualification, particular person remaining and staff remaining (Ashi Chouksey, Mehuli Ghosh, Ramita) – 6:00 AM IST onwards

Men’s 25m speedy fireplace pistol qualification section 1 (Anish, Vijayveer Sidhu, Adarsh Singh) – 6:30 AM IST onwards

Swimming

Men’s 100m freestyle heats and remaining (Anand AS, Tanish George Matthew) – 7:30 AM IST onwards

Men’s 100m backstroke heats and remaining (Sriharni Nataraj, Utkarsh Santosh Patil) – 7:30 AM IST onwards

Women’s 4x100m freestyle relay heats and remaining (Janhvi Choudhary, Dhinidhi Desinghu, Maana Patel, Shivangi Sarma) – 7:30 AM IST onwards

Tennis

Men’s doubles spherical 1: India 2 vs Nepal 1 – 9:30 AM IST onwards

Men’s singles spherical 1: Sumit Nagal (IND) vs Marco Ho Tin Leung (MAC) – 9:30 AM IST onwards

Table Tennis

Women’s staff spherical of 16: India vs Thailand – 7:30 AM IST

Men’s staff spherical of 16: India vs Kazakhstan – 9:30 AM IST

Volleyball

Men’s classification 1st-Sixth: India vs Japan – 12:00 PM IST

Wushu

Men’s changquan remaining (Anjul Namdeo, Suraj Singh Mayanglambam) – 6:30 AM IST

Men’s 56kg 1/8 remaining: Sunil Singh Mayanglambam (IND) vs Arnel Mandal (PHI) – 5:00 PM IST onwards