Melbourne: Shooting will return to the 2026 Commonwealth Games to be held in Victoria, Australia, while wrestling and archery have been excluded.

While the return of shooting in these games is a welcome step for India, it is disappointing to exclude wrestling there.

Shooting was dropped from the list of previous games held in Birmingham. The absence of wrestling will hurt the team.

India won 12 medals in wrestling at the Birmingham Games. Archery, on the other hand, has been a part of the Commonwealth Games only twice. It became a part of the Games in 1982 and 2010.

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Birmingham: The Indian women’s hockey team started their campaign at the Commonwealth Games with a victory by defeating a lower-ranked Ghana 5-0, here today. The Savita Punia-led side however did not look so impressive in their first pool ‘A’ match.

For the team, Gurjit Kaur scored two goals in the third and 39th minutes while Neha Goel scored in the 28th minute, Sangeeta Kumari in the 36th minute and Salima Tete scored the field goals in the 56th minute. India dominated all departments of the match but their performance in the first two quarters was poor during which Ghana’s defence put up a strong performance to frustrate a team ranked higher than them

The most frustrating part for India has been the weak link between the mid field and the front line. The practice of not converting a penalty corner into a goal also continued and the Indian team could convert only one penalty corner out of 10 chances into a goal. There was hope in this contest that the Indian team would win by a big margin but Ghana goalkeeper Abigail Boye kept his team in the match with some brilliant saves in which his backline also gave him full support. India will now take on Wales in their second match of the pool on July 30.

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Birmingham: The Indian Olympic Association (IOA) today announced that star javelin thrower Neeraj Chopra will not compete in the Commonwealth Games due to injuries.

Chopra had won a historic silver medal at the World Athletics Championships in Eugene on Sunday and was injured during the competition.

IOA general secretary Rajeev Mehta said the Olympic champion has been advised rest for the month.

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