Shooting
Sharon Lee won silver in the 50m rifle prone pairs in Melbourne with partner Helen Spittles. In Delhi she teams up with 27 year-old Michelle Smith. The pair take to the range at 9.00am.
Sharon Lee won silver in the 50m rifle prone pairs in Melbourne with partner Helen Spittles. In Delhi she teams up with 27 year-old Michelle Smith. The pair take to the range at 9.00am.
Clive Bramley and Richard Brickell are also ones to watch at the Karni Singh shooting range. The duo will be gunning for gold in the men’s skeet pairs final. Parag Patel and Jon Underwood shoot in the full bore rifle pairs.
Athletics
On the track, the relays get underway with heats in both the 4x400m and 4x100m. Mark Lewis Francis, who won silver in the 100m and Leon Baptiste, fresh from his 200m gold, should both feature.
Andrew Baddeley will be hoping to put himself on the middle-distance map by winning a Delhi medal – he goes in round one of the 1500m at 18.50 along with Colin McCourt and Tom Lancashire, who is aiming for a podium finish.
Emma Jackson will run in the Women’s 800m final, after qualifying comfortably today by winning her heat. She will be joined by Hannah England, who finished second in her heat. The 3000m steeplechase looks an even steeper challenge in the Delhi heat. Stuart Stokes, who finished fifth in Melbourne, will be joined on the track by British champion Luke Gunn.
And in the final track event of the evening, Chris Thompson faces world class opposition, including 5,000m winner Moses Kipsiro of Uganda, in the 10,000m final.
In the field events, pole-vaulter Steve Lewis will be hoping to improve on the bronze he won in Melbourne in 2006. In the absence of Phillips Idowu, Larry Achike and Nathan Doughlas will carry the flag for England in the men’s triple-jump – qualification begins at 18.15.
Lawn Bowls
Tomorrow the men’s pairing of Stuart Airey and Mervyn King, and the women’s pairs of Ellen Falkner and Amy Monkhouse, have their shot at gold or silver as they play semi-finals against Malaysia and Australia respectively.
Weightlifting
Current British and English champion Joe Muskett will try to double England’s medal tally in the weightlifting following Zoe Smith’s bronze in the women’s 58kg. He lifts in the +105kg final at 18.30 at the Jawaharlal Nehru Sports Complex.
Diving
The second day of diving sees Tonia Couch and Nick Robinson-Baker among the English athletes on the boards in the women’s 10m platform and men’s 3m springboard.
Boxing
Callum Smith today secures a Commonwealth Games medal like his two brothers before him by making the semi-finals in the welterweight division. He will fight Carl Hield for a chance to go for the gold.
After a solid 7-2 win against Australia’s Luke Jackson, England’s Tom Stalker has a tricky fight against India’s Jai Bhagwan, the prize is a place in the lightweight division final. Also in the semi-finals at the Talkatora Indoor Stadium are light welterweight Bradley Saunders, middleweight Anthony Ogogo and heavyweight Simon Vallily.
Squash
Pool matches in the men’s, women’s and mixed doubles continue with some quarter-final matches to be settled by the end of the day. All of England’s pairings will be in action starting with Jenny Duncalf and Alison Waters at 11.00am.
Hockey
Things hot up for England’s women in the Delhi heat as the hockey reaches the knock-out stages. The women, who finished second in their group, will face Australia in the 11.00am match at the MDC National Stadium. The hockeyroos are ranked one place below England at sixth in the world.
Rugby Sevens
England begin their Games campaign with high hopes of a medal. They open their account against Sri Lanka at Delhi University Stadium at 10.30am, followed by matches against Uganda and medal rivals Australia.
Badminton
Number one seeds Nathan Robinson and Jenny Wallwork play Hendra Wijaya and Shinta Mulia of Singapore after winning their first knock-out game today in just 13 minutes. England’s other doubles partnerships all play after winning today without dropping a single game between them.
In the men’s singles number two seed Rajiv Ouseph plays Sri Lanka’s Niluka Karunaratne, Carl Baxter plays Gareth Henry of Jamaica and Liz Cann will play New Zealand’s Anna Rankin in the women’s singles.
Table Tennis
The pool games continue in table tennis in men’s and women’s singles and doubles and mixed doubles. The women’s parasport singles also opens.in the 50m rifle prone pairs in Melbourne with partner Helen Spittles. In Delhi she teams up with 27 year-old Michelle Smith. The pair take to the range at 9.00am.
Clive Bramley and Richard Brickell are also ones to watch at the Karni Singh shooting range. The duo will be gunning for gold in the men’s skeet pairs final. Parag Patel and Jon Underwood shoot in the full bore rifle pairs.