Asian Games 2023 Day 2, September 25, Highlights: Historic gold in shooting, cricket; Wushu medal assured

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Asian Games 2023 in Hangzhou, People’s Republic of China are up and running. Indian athletes were impressive on Sunday, having won five medals. Of the five medals won, three were silver and two were bronze. 

On Monday, September 25, India’s medal tally could see more additions. The women’s cricket team will be involved in the gold medal match while Indian rowers will also be competing in medal events. Swimmers and shooting athletes can also deliver medals on Monday if all goes well.

There is a lot of action to look forward to on another exciting day at the multi-sport event. To that end, here is the complete Indian schedule for the 2023 Asian Games on September 25:

Sailing

8:30 AM IST Onwards: Multiple qualifying races in various categories

Shooting

6:30 AM IST: Rudrankksh Patil, Aishwary Pratap Singh Tomar, Divyansh Singh Panwar (Men’s 10m air rifle qualification, individual final and team final)

6:30 AM IST: Anish, Vijayveer Sidhu, Adarsh Singh (Men’s 25m rapid fire pistol qualification phase 2 and individual final)

Swimming

7:30 AM IST Onwards: Srihari Nataraj (Men’s 50m backstroke heats)

7:30 AM IST Onwards: Maana Patel (Women’s 50m backstroke heats)

7:30 AM IST Onwards: Anand AS, Vikram Khade (Men's 50m freestyle)

7:30 AM IST Onwards: Dhinidhi Desinghu (Women's 200m freestyle)

7:30 AM IST Onwards: Likith Selvaraj (Men's 100m breaststroke)

7:30 AM IST Onwards: Hashika Ramachandra (Women’s 200m individual medley)

7:30 AM IST Onwards: Team India (Women’s 4x200m freestyle relay heats)

Tennis

7:30 AM IST Onwards: Ankita Raina, Rohan Bopanna, Rutuja Bhosale, Ramkumar Ramanathan, etc. (Multiple singles and doubles contests)

Wushu

5:00 PM IST: Naorem Roshibina Devi (Women’s 60kg 1/8 final)

5:00 PM IST: Surya Singh (Men’s 60kg 1/8 final)

5:00 PM IST: Vikrant Baliyan (Men’s 60kg 1/8 final)

Gymnastics

7:30 AM IST: Pranati Nayak (Women’s qualification subdivision 1)

Boxing

4:45 PM IST: Arundhati Choudhary (IND) vs. Liu Yang (CHN) (Women’s 66kg Round of 16)

5:15 PM IST: Deepak Bhoria (IND) vs. Abdul Qaiyum Bin Ariffin (MAS) (Men’s 50kg Round of 32)

7:00 PM IST: Nishant Dev (IND) vs. Dipesh Lama (NEP) (Men’s 71kg Round of 32)

Basketball 3x3

11:20 AM IST: India vs. Uzbekistan (Women's Pool A)

12:10 PM IST: India vs. Malaysia (Men's Pool C)

Cricket

11:30 AM IST: India vs. Sri Lanka (Women's Gold Medal Match)

Chess

12:30 PM IST Onwards: Vidit Gujrathi, Arjun Erigais (Men's Individual Rounds 3 and 4)

12:30 PM IST Onwards: Koneru Humpy and Harika Dronavalli (Women's Individual Rounds 3 and 4)

Judo

7:30 AM IST: Garima Choudhary (Women's 70kg)

Handball

11:30 AM IST: India vs. Japan (Women's Preliminary Group B)

Rugby Sevens

8:20 AM IST: India vs. Singapore (Women's Pool F)

Rowing

7:00 AM IST: Balraj Panwar (Men’s single sculls Final A)

7:40 AM IST: Ashish, Bheem Singh, Jaswinder Singh, Punit Kumar (Men coxless four Final A)

8:00 AM IST: Parminder Singh, Satnam Singh, Jakar Khan, Sukhmeet Singh (Men’s quadruple sculls Final A)

8:50 AM IST: Geetanjali, Ritu Kaudi, Sonali Swain, H Tendenthoi Devi, Varsha KB, Aswathi PB, Mrunamayee Nilesh S, Thangjam Priya Devi, Rukmani (Women’s coxed eight)