Asian Games 2026 cricket: results, medal winners and the full schedule in IST

India won both cricket golds at the Asian Games 2026 in Nisshin, Japan, as they had at Hangzhou in 2023. The women beat Sri Lanka by 147 runs in their final on 22 September, and the men beat Pakistan by 19 runs on 3 October, in the first meeting between the two at an Asian Games. Both tournaments were T20 and both were played at Korogi Athletic Park, also listed as Korogi Sports Park, in Aichi prefecture.

Rain shaped the men’s event more than any team did. All four men’s quarter-finals were washed out without a ball bowled, so the four seeded sides went through on ranking, and India’s men played just two matches to win gold. This page has every result, the medal winners, the full schedule as it ran in IST, and India’s squads.

Asian Games 2026 cricket medal winners

Event	Gold	Silver	Bronze
Men	India	Pakistan	Sri Lanka
Women	India	Sri Lanka	Pakistan

India have now won all four cricket golds they have played for at the Asian Games. They did not send teams in 2010 or 2014, and have taken both titles at each of the two Games they have entered.

Men’s final: India beat Pakistan by 19 runs

Shreyas Iyer won the toss and batted. India made 211 for 6, with Abhishek Sharma scoring 61 from 28 balls and Tilak Varma 51 not out from 22. Pakistan got to 192 for 6 almost entirely through Hasan Nawaz, who made 96 from 51 balls and was caught behind off Shivam Dube from the last ball of the match. Axar Patel, Washington Sundar and Dube took two wickets each. Our report from the final has the full story.

The 211 is India’s highest T20I total against Pakistan, and the 403 runs in the match is the biggest aggregate in any India vs Pakistan T20I. The India vs Pakistan head-to-head page now includes it.

Women’s final: India beat Sri Lanka by 147 runs

Harmanpreet Kaur’s side batted first and made 216 for 3, with Smriti Mandhana top-scoring on 79 from 45 balls. Sri Lanka were bowled out for 69 in 15.4 overs, and Deepti Sharma took 3 for 6. It was a rematch of the 2023 final, which India won by 19 runs defending 116, and it was a lot less close. Two days earlier Shafali Verma had made 100 not out from 49 balls against Bangladesh in the semi-final, her first T20I hundred.

Women’s results, 17 to 22 September

Eight teams and a straight knockout, with no group stage. Times are IST; every match started at 09:00 or 14:00 in Japan, which is 05:30 or 10:30 in India.

Date	IST	Match	Result
17 Sep	05:30	Bangladesh v China (QF1)	Abandoned, Bangladesh through on ranking
17 Sep	10:30	Pakistan v Thailand (QF2)	Pakistan won by 3 wickets
18 Sep	05:30	Malaysia v Sri Lanka (QF3)	Sri Lanka won by 86 runs
18 Sep	10:30	India v Japan (QF4)	India won by 8 wickets
20 Sep	05:30	Pakistan v Sri Lanka (SF1)	Sri Lanka won by 8 wickets
20 Sep	10:30	India v Bangladesh (SF2)	India won by 114 runs
22 Sep	05:30	Pakistan v Bangladesh (bronze)	Pakistan won by 31 runs
22 Sep	10:30	India v Sri Lanka (gold)	India won by 147 runs

India bowled Japan out for 57 in their quarter-final and chased it in five overs. Chamari Athapaththu carried Sri Lanka to the final with 63 against Malaysia and 83 not out against Pakistan, but made 29 in the gold medal match.

Men’s results, 24 September to 3 October

Ten teams. Six played a preliminary round in two groups of three, with the top two in each going into the quarter-finals against the four seeds.

Date	IST	Match	Result
24 Sep	05:30	Japan v Afghanistan (A)	Afghanistan won by 48 runs
24 Sep	10:30	Hong Kong v Malaysia (B)	Malaysia won by 8 wickets
25 Sep	05:30	Hong Kong v Oman (B)	Hong Kong won by 41 runs
25 Sep	10:30	Afghanistan v Nepal (A)	Nepal won by 5 wickets
26 Sep	05:30	Japan v Nepal (A)	No result
26 Sep	10:30	Malaysia v Oman (B)	Abandoned
28 Sep	05:30	Pakistan v Hong Kong (QF1)	Abandoned, Pakistan through
28 Sep	10:30	India v Afghanistan (QF2)	Abandoned, India through
29 Sep	05:30	Sri Lanka v Nepal (QF3)	Abandoned, Sri Lanka through
29 Sep	10:30	Bangladesh v Malaysia (QF4)	Abandoned, Bangladesh through
1 Oct	05:30	Bangladesh v Pakistan (SF1)	Pakistan won by 6 wickets
1 Oct	10:30	India v Sri Lanka (SF2)	India won by 124 runs
3 Oct	05:30	Sri Lanka v Bangladesh (bronze)	Sri Lanka won by 63 runs
3 Oct	10:30	India v Pakistan (gold)	India won by 19 runs

Six of the 14 men’s matches produced no result. Nepal won Group A unbeaten, Afghanistan finished second, and Malaysia topped Group B ahead of Hong Kong, with Oman out. The semi-final against Pakistan was cut to 13 overs a side because of a wet outfield, and India’s semi-final against Sri Lanka was their first match of the Games: they made 169 for 7 and bowled Sri Lanka out for 45, Sri Lanka’s lowest T20I total. Sri Lanka recovered from that to take bronze, with Tharindu Rathnayake making 65 from 32 balls.

How the bracket actually ran

Before the Games, most previews, ours included, said India and Pakistan sat on opposite sides of the draw and could meet from the semi-finals. The bracket said otherwise. The first semi-final paired the winners of quarter-finals one and four, and the second paired the winners of two and three, so with Pakistan in QF1 and India in QF2 the two could only meet on 3 October. They did, in the gold medal match.

We also had one part of it wrong. An earlier version of this page put the Group B winner against Sri Lanka and the Group A winner against Bangladesh. As played, Sri Lanka met Group A winners Nepal and Bangladesh met Group B winners Malaysia. India’s pairing with the Group A runner-up was right, and it produced the tournament’s most awkward result: Afghanistan, silver medallists at all three of their previous Asian Games, lost to Nepal, finished second in the group and drew India in a quarter-final that never started. They leave Japan without a medal for the first time.

Which teams played

Ten men’s teams and eight women’s. Japan qualified as hosts in both. The Full Members took five of the men’s places and four of the women’s, and the rest came through regional qualifiers.

Men (10)	Women (8)
India	India
Pakistan	Pakistan
Sri Lanka	Sri Lanka
Bangladesh	Bangladesh
Afghanistan	Japan
Nepal	China
Hong Kong	Malaysia
Oman	Thailand
Malaysia
Japan

Both fields are smaller than Hangzhou’s, where 14 men’s teams and nine women’s took part. A 300-capacity ground in Aichi could not absorb what the Zhejiang University of Technology field did, and the entry list was cut to match.

Why four teams skipped the group stage

India, Pakistan, Sri Lanka and Bangladesh were seeded straight into the men’s quarter-finals on the ICC men’s T20I team rankings as they stood on 23 July, the day the draw was made in Nagoya. In a dry tournament that would have been a head start. In this one it decided who reached the semi-finals, because the seeds went through every washed-out quarter-final on ranking.

Afghanistan were the side it hurt. Their ranking on the cut-off date sat below Bangladesh’s, so they had to play the preliminary round, and they went to Japan having picked six uncapped players and left Rashid Khan at home. The draw itself did not change after July.

India’s squads

The BCCI named the men’s 15 on 6 June and the women’s on 30 June, both far earlier than usual, because the Games window collided with a home series against West Indies.

Men (as they travelled): Shreyas Iyer (c), Tilak Varma (vc), Abhishek Sharma, Sanju Samson (wk), Ishan Kishan (wk), Shivam Dube, Axar Patel, Washington Sundar, Ravi Bishnoi, Vipraj Nigam, Jasprit Bumrah, Arshdeep Singh, Yash Thakur, Vaibhav Sooryavanshi.

That is 14, not 15, after three September changes. Harshit Rana was ruled out with a thigh strain and Yash Thakur replaced him. Varun Chakravarthy strained his side in the first T20I against Afghanistan and Vipraj Nigam took his place, uncapped. Nitish Kumar Reddy was withdrawn to play the West Indies ODIs and nobody came in for him. Suryakumar Yadav and Shubman Gill were never in it. Sooryavanshi was, at 15, on the back of an IPL season that brought him 776 runs in 16 matches at a strike rate of 237.30, plus the Orange Cap and the MVP award, and he made 38 from 21 balls in the semi-final.

Women (as named): Harmanpreet Kaur (c), Smriti Mandhana (vc), Shafali Verma, Deepti Sharma, Richa Ghosh (wk), G Kamalini (wk), Bharti Fulmali, Radha Yadav, Sree Charani, Renuka Singh Thakur, Kranti Gaud, Arundhati Reddy, Shreyanka Patil, Nandni Sharma, and Pratika Rawal in place of Jemimah Rodrigues.

Rodrigues tore her right hamstring playing in the Hundred on 3 August and lost the Women’s Asia Cup and the Games with it. Kamalini’s call-up came at Yastika Bhatia’s expense, and Shreyanka Patil was named subject to fitness after an ankle injury.

Asian Games cricket winners list

Edition	Men’s gold	Women’s gold
Guangzhou 2010	Bangladesh	Pakistan
Incheon 2014	Sri Lanka	Pakistan
Hangzhou 2023	India	India
Aichi-Nagoya 2026	India	India

India’s first men’s gold, in Hangzhou, came without the final being finished. Rain stopped the match against Afghanistan with Afghanistan 112 for 5 after 18.2 overs, it was never restarted, and India took gold as the higher-seeded side. The women’s 2023 final was played out: they beat Sri Lanka by 19 runs, defending 116 for 7 and holding Sri Lanka to 97 for 8, with Titas Sadhu taking 3 for 6. In Nisshin the men won their gold on the field.

A ground with a pitcher’s mound outside the boundary

Korogi Athletic Park is owned by the Japan Cricket Association and sits about forty minutes by train from central Nagoya. Three baseball fields were converted into one cricket ground, finished in March 2026, and the pitcher’s mound is still there just beyond the rope. It is one of only two grounds in Japan with a natural-grass square that meets international standards.

Normal capacity is around 300. It held about a thousand for the East Asia-Pacific Qualifier earlier in 2026, and temporary stands were planned to lift it to roughly 2,000 for the Games. Two Asian Games titles were defended in front of a crowd that would not fill one stand at the Wankhede, and the rest of the Indian contingent found the arrangements similarly improvised elsewhere in Aichi.

Photo credit: Alamy

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