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Commonwealth Games 2022 women's T20 competition to be held from 29 July to 7 August
•The group stage matches of the eight-team competition are slated to be held till 4 August and the semi-finals are scheduled for 6 August.
Birmingham Commonwealth Games 2022 scrap athletes' village plan due to COVID-19-enforced construction delay
•2022 Commonwealth Games' athletes and team officials will now be housed in three campus villages at The University of Birmingham, The University of Warwick, and The NEC Hotel Campus.
Birmingham Commonwealth Games: CGF has taken serious note of India's concerns, says sports minister Kiren Rijiju
•Sports Minister Kiren Rijiju said the Commonwealth Games Federation has taken serious note of India's concerns over shooting's exclusion from the 2022 CWG and has agreed to work towards finding a solution.
Birmingham CWG 2022: Jaspal Rana appreciates IOA president Narinder Batra's backing for shooting but differs on pullout
•Shooting legend Jaspal Rana on Wednesday lauded Narinder Batra for backing his sport, but did not agree with IOA chief's suggestion that India should stop competing at the Commonwealth Games.
Commonwealth Games 2022: Bangladesh joins India in urging British government to reinstate shooting at Birmingham event
•Zahid Ahsan Russel, Bangladesh's sports minister, this week wrote to Tariq Ahmad, British Commonwealth Minister, saying that the Games "should include shooting for the sake of its historical image and goodwill".
Indian shooters hopeful of sport's inclusion at Birmingham CWG in 2022 after Sports Ministry intervention
•Highlighting India's concerns over the exclusion of Shooting from CWG 2022, Sports Minister Kiren Rijiju has recently written a letter to UK Secretary of State for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport
Tokyo Olympics 2020: Kiren Rijiju hopes India's shooting talent gets reflected in medal count
•The Indian shooting team returned to the country on Thursday after claiming nine medals, including five golds, at the recently-concluded ISSF World Cup in Rio de Janeiro.
Jaspal Rana wants India to boycott 2022 Birmingham Commonwealth Games after shooting snub
Amit Kamath •Jaspal Rana, while likening the move to the hockey’s change from natural grass to astro turf, branded the move as a purely political one
Former South Africa great Jacques Kallis calls inclusion of women's cricket in Commonwealth Games 2022 as 'fantastic news'
•'It's fantastic news that women's T20 cricket could be returning to the Commonwealth Games, it's been far too long,' Kallis wrote in his column for the ICC.
2022 Commonwealth Games: £778 million budget passed for Birmingham Games
•2022 Commonwealth Games will hosted by Birmingham between 27 July and 7 August in what will be the biggest sporting and cultural event staged in the West Midlands.