Welcome to our live updates of the morning session of day three from New Delhi.
8.05pm: After going undefeated during their first four matches the NZ women's pairs team of Jan Khan and Manu Timoti have lost to Canada in a tight third set, for their first loss of the Games.
That concludes our Games updates for this evening. Join us for updates from the
first session of day four from 4.30pm tomorrow. Thanks.
7.37pm: New Zealand Greco Roman wrestler Stephen Hill, an 84kg exponent, has been eliminated in the first round today.
Hill lost 7-1 to South African Dean van Zyl, having trailed 2-0 after the first of two sets.
Yesterday, fellow-Cantabrian Sam Belkin finished fourth in the 96kg class. He was promoted one place from fifth after Australian Hassene Fkiri was stripped of his silver medal for making a rude gesture at officials in the final.
Hill is a specialist freestyle wrestler and one of five New Zealanders looking forward to that discipline starting tomorrow.
The first New Zealand women's wrestler to compete at an Olympic or Commonwealth Games, Sian Law, will be the first away on Friday in the 51kg class.
7.32pm: NZPA reports New Zealand 5000m runner Adrian Blincoe will head into the unknown tonight, with work to repair the Commonwealth Games track at Jawaharlal Nehru Stadium still taking place hours before his race.
Blue riband Games athletics start this evening, hours after Commonwealth Games officials put the finishing touches on a battered in field and a track damaged by monsoon rains then in the opening ceremony.
"We are aware of the reports," a New Zealand team spokeswoman said.
A head technical official had advised the team the track is fit for competition.
Blincoe is NZ's lone starter in the race which is a final, set to go at 3.25am.
7.17pm: NZ keirin cyclist Simon van Velthooven has turned in a gutsy ride to finish second in his heat and qualify for the second round.
6.58pm: The BBC's Tom Fordyce writes on Twitter: "Just been to athletes village to interview Tonga's first ever CWG swimmer. No pools in country. Coral tidal pool offshore, regular drownings. Arrived in Delhi having slept 24 hours on floor of Newark Airport. Straight into comp without bags arriving, borrowed swim-hat from Jamaican."
6.42pm: The NZ women's pairs bowls team are fighting hard to beat Canada. After losing the first set, they've just held on to take the second 8-7, they're into a decider now.
6.27pm: Tonight's track cycling program starts in around 30 minutes with four gold medals up for grabs, the first in the 25km Women's Points Race, featuring NZ's Gemma Dudley, Lauren Ellis, Joanne Kiesanowski.
5.55pm We bought you news earlier of Gareth Kean's qualification for tonight's men's 200m backstroke final, here's confirmation of the other NZ swimmers in finals action tonight.
Along with Kean, NZ will contest four other finals in the evening session - Hayley Palmer in the women's 100m freestyle, Melissa Ingram the women's 100m backstroke, Glenn Snyders a medal chance in the men's 100m breaststroke, and the women's 4 x 200m relay.
Lauren Boyle, Penelope Marshall, Amaka Gessler and Natasha Hind are the likely relay starters.
The swimming finals will be live on Sky Sport channel 131 from 11.25pm tonight.
5.45pm An early men's hockey result, Australia has thumped Scotland 9-0. NZ take on South Africa at 2am tomorrow morning. NZ destroyed Trinidad and Tobago in their opening match yesterday.
5.39pm Not good news for the NZ women's pairs team of Jan Khan, Manu Timoti, they've lost the first set to Canada 9-7, losing three shots on the ninth and final end.
5.30pm Great news in the swimming, Kiwi Gareth Kean has progressed through to the final of the men's 200m backstroke.
Kean just managed to qualify for the final after posting the eighth fastest time in the heats.
Fellow Kiwi Daniel Bell missed qualifying, the result a marked
contrast to the joy of last night.
Natalie Wiegersma failed to qualify in the women's 100m butterfly.
5.15pm A live bowls update, the NZ women's pairs team of Jan Khan, Manu Timoti is tied with Canada 6-6 after seven of nine ends in the first set. They are unbeaten in their first four matches.
Among the Kiwis we'll be covering over the next three hours are Marina Erakovic in second round tennis action against Bermuda's Jacklyn Lambert.
NZ's best chance of medalling today might again be on the track with the men's and women's points race teams in action from 8pm.
NZ picked up their first two medals of the Games on the track last night.
5.00pm Hi everyone, another big day of action for NZ athletes in New Delhi. Today's swimming heats are already underway, we'll bring you the early results shortly, but for those wanting to know today's schedule, here it is.
