"I would say two but it can be nil also. The main challenge would be from the players representing England, Australia, New Zealand and Malaysia," said the 27-year-old World no 16 at the Cricket Club of India here today.
Ghosal, individual event bronze medal winner in the 2006 and 2010 Asian Games and a team bronze winner in the latter edition, is seeded fourth in men's singles at CWG.
England's trio of defending champion Nick Matthew, last edition's silver medallist James Willstrop and the man who conquered Ghosal in the pre quarters at Delhi four years ago - Peter Barker - are the three men ahead of the Indian hope in the seedings.
"This is good for me. I won't meet any of the top three before the semis. But there are good players in the 5-8 seedings too and I would meet one of them in the quarter finals. There are 3-4 good players in the 9-16 slot too," said Ghosal who became the first Indian to enter the World Championship quarter finals in 2013.
Ghosal is to partner Harinder Pal Sandhu in the men's doubles and India's top woman player Dipika Pallikal in the mixed doubles in the CWG while Dipika would partner Joshana Chinappa in the women's doubles.
"I normally do not play 25000 dollar events but am playing this to get good practise for the Commonwealth Games. I have a tough first round (tomorrow)," he said adding he and his teammates would be in Scotland five days ahead of the CWG Games Opening.
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