Asian Games 2023, India schedule for September 24: Rowers, Nikhat Zareen and women's cricket team in focus

India will look to open their medal account as early Day 1 of the Asian Games on Sunday, September 24. Rowers and shooters will in action in major medal events while India's women's cricket team faces Bangladesh in the semi-final as the team looks to confirm a historic medal. 

Team events in cricket, table tennis, football and volleyball got underway well before the Asian Games were declared open in a glittering opening ceremony on Saturday, September 23. Indian teams have managed to impress early in the tournament, putting themselves on the brisk of glory. 

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India women's cricket team will be in action in the semi-final against Bangladesh and a win will help them ensure a historic medal. Pakistan take on Sri Lanka in the other semi-final later on Sunday.

Meanwhile, Indian shooters Mehuli Ghosh, Ashi Chouksey and Ramita have an opportunity to win medals on Sunday, September 24 as they are in contention in the 10m Air Rifle Individual and Team final.

Indian rowers will in medal events in as many as 5 events with Olympian Arjun Lal Jat and Arvind Singh leading the campaign early on Sunday morning in Hangzhou.

Swimming and fencing can also produce medals for India.

All eyes will also be on India's boxing superstar Nikhat Zareen who faces a tough opening-round test on Sunday. 

Meanwhile, India volleyball team will face powerhouse Japan in a crunch 1-6 classification match and the men's football team will be in action in their final group-stage match. 

MEDAL EVENTS

Shooting

6 am IST: 10m Air Rifle Women's Team Final and 10m Air Rifle Individual Women's Qualification

9:15 am IST: Women's 10m Air Rifle Individual Final

Athletes: Mehuli Ghosh, Ashi Chouksey, Ramita

Rowing

7:10 am IST: Men's Lightweight Double Sculls Final A - Arjun Lal Jat and Arvind Singh
8 am IST: Men's Double Sculls Final A - Parminder Singh, Satnam Singh
8:20 am IST: Women's Four Final A - Aswathi PB, Mrunamayee Nilesh S, Thangjam Priya Devi, Rukmani)
8:40 am IST: Men's Pair Final A - Babu Lal Yadav, Lekh Ra
9am IST: Men's Eight Final A - Charanjeet Singh, DU Pande, Naresh Kalwaniya, Neeraj, Neetesh Kumar, Ashish, Bheem Singh, Jaswinder Singh, Punit Kumar 

Fencing (If India qualify)

5:40 pm IST: Men's Foil Individual Gold medal Bout 

6:15 pm iST: Women's Epee Individual Gold medal Bout

Swimming (if India qualify)

5:56 pm IST: Men's 100m Freestyle Final
6:17 pm IST: Men's 100m Backstroke Final 
6:41 pm IST: Women's 4x100m Freestyle Final

COMPLETE SCHEDULE FOR SEPTEMBER 24

Boxing

11:45 am - Women's 50-54kg - Round of 16 

Preeti vs Silina Alhasanat (Jordan) 

4:30 pm - Women's 45-50kg - Round of 32

Nikhat Zareen vs Thi Tam Nguyen (Vietnam)

Chess

12:30 pm to 2 pm: Men's Individual and Women's Individual Round 1

Vidit Gujrathi and Arjun Erigaisi

2:30 pm to 4 pm: Men's Individual and Women's Individual Round 2 

Koneru Humpy and Harika Dronavalli

Cricket 

6:30 am: India vs Bangladesh - Women's semi-final 

11:30 am: Pakistan vs Sri Lanka - Women's semi-final

ESports 

8 am IST: EA Sports FC Online Round of 32

Charan Jot Singh vs Liu Jiacheng (China)

Karman Singh vs Faqeehi Abdulaziz (Bahrain)

Fencing

6:30 am Onwards - Men's Foil Individual 

Dev and Bibish Kathiresan

10 am Onwards - Women's epee individual 

Ena Arora and Taniksha Khatri

Football

1:30 pm IST: India vs Thailand - Women's Group B match

5 pm IST: India vs Myanmar - Men's Group A match

Hockey

8:45 am IST: India vs Uzbekistan - Men's Pool A match

Modern Pentathlon

3 pm:  Men's Team 

Mayank Vaibhav Chaphekar

Rowing

6:30 am: Women's lightweight double sculls Final B 

Kiran, Anshika Bharti

Medal events mentioned at the top 

Rugby Sevens

10 am: Women's Pool F

India vs Hong Kong China 

3:35 pm: Women's Pool F

India vs Japan 

Sailing

From 8:30 am: Multiple races (qualification) 

Shooting

6:30 am: Men's 25m rapid fire pistol qualification phase 1 

Anish, Vijayveer Sidhu, Adarsh Singh

Medal events mentioned at the top 

Tennis

9:30 am: Men's doubles Round 1 

India vs Nepal 

9:30 am: Men's Singles Round 1

Sumit Nagal vs Marco Tin Leung 

Table Tennis

7:30 am: Women's team Round of 16

India vs Thailand - 7:30 AM

9:30 am: Men's Team Round of 16

India vs Kazakhstan - 9:30 AM

Volleyball

12 pm: Men's classification 1st-6th

India vs Japan 

Wushu

6:30 am: Men's changquan final 

Anjul Namdeo, Suraj Singh Mayanglambam

5 pm: Men's 56kg 1/8 final

Sunil Singh Mayanglambam vs Arnel Mandal (PHI)