Asian Games 2026

105 articles tagged with "Asian Games 2026"

Sep 19, 2026

Tajinderpal Singh Toor’s ceremonial kit was stuck at Nagoya airport, and a kabaddi raider carried India’s flag instead

A ceremonial kit that never made it out of India cost Tajinderpal Singh Toor his place at the head of the contingent in Aichi-Nagoya, and handed the f...

Sep 19, 2026

India beat Bangladesh in a semi-final on 10 September, and the two meet again on Sunday morning

India have bowled one team out for 57 and batted five overs at these Asian Games. Bangladesh reach the semi-final without having played at all.

Sep 18, 2026

India’s kabaddi defence starts at 6am on Monday, and the one team to beat them in an Asian Games pool is in their group

Kabaddi at the Asian Games runs from 21 to 26 September at the Tokai Citizens Gymnasium in Aichi. India’s men open against Japan and meet the Republic...

Sep 18, 2026

Shree Charani took 4 for 10, and India’s chase of 58 lasted five overs

India bowled Japan out for 57 and knocked the runs off in five overs to reach the Asian Games semi-finals, where Bangladesh are waiting on Sunday.

Sep 17, 2026

Bangladesh are into the Asian Games semi-finals without a ball being bowled, and Pakistan got there in 10.4 overs

China went out of the Asian Games without a toss being made, and Pakistan needed all but two balls of a rain-shortened chase to beat Thailand. India’s...

Sep 17, 2026

India’s Asian Games squad is down to 14, and Vipraj Nigam has never played for India

Varun Chakravarthy’s side strain and Nitish Kumar Reddy’s move to the West Indies ODI squad have left Shreyas Iyer with 14 players for the gold medal...

Sep 17, 2026

India’s Asian Games began two days before the ceremony, on a curved table, with a football

Declan Gonsalves and Mohamed Anas Beg were the first Indians in action at Aichi-Nagoya 2026. Two group matches later, the World Championship bronze me...

Sep 17, 2026

Nigar Sultana quit the T20I captaincy by email from Japan, and the BCB says it is embarrassed

Bangladesh’s captain told her board mid-tournament that the shortest format is someone else’s job from October. She keeps the 50-over side.

Sep 16, 2026

India’s women have no group stage in Japan, and their gold medal defence starts against the hosts

Eight teams, four quarter-finals and a gold decided in six days. India play Japan on Friday morning, three days after winning the Asia Cup in Dubai.

Sep 16, 2026

India has entered four of the Asian Games’ 11 esports events, and PUBG Mobile is not one of them

India’s 15-player esports contingent for Aichi-Nagoya covers League of Legends, Pokemon UNITE, eFootball and Puyo Puyo Champions. The medal event buil...

Sep 15, 2026

Nine of India’s 12 Asian Games kabaddi players came out of a Haryana league, and it just added two teams

The Kabaddi Champions League announced a 10-team second season on Monday, a week before India begin their Asian Games title defence in Japan. Its chai...

Sep 15, 2026

India pick their ODI squad on Wednesday, and their vice-captain will be in Japan

The Asian Games and the West Indies ODI series overlap almost exactly, which means two India squads in two countries and a gold medal match on the sam...

Sep 15, 2026

Varun Chakravarthy took 1 for 16 on his comeback, and an MRI has ended his series

The spinner played his first match for India in two months on Sunday in Delhi. A side strain has ruled him out of the rest of the Afghanistan T20Is.

Sep 14, 2026

Agarkar missed the BCCI’s review meeting on September 3, and his contract runs out on October 4

India’s chief selector has three weeks left on his deal, and the board’s office-bearers want a conversation about it this week. First he has to name t...

Sep 13, 2026

The Asian Games cricket ground has no floodlights, and India’s quarter-final moved half an hour earlier

India’s men’s quarter-final in Nisshin now starts at 10am IST on September 28 rather than 10.30. Two more knockout matches moved with it, and daylight...

Sep 13, 2026

Nigar Sultana did not shake Harmanpreet’s hand, and her own board says that was not their idea

The BCB has distanced itself from its captain’s handshake snub in Dubai, with a bilateral tour of India still unscheduled and Nigar Sultana’s future i...

Sep 11, 2026

Delhi Police asked for the T20I opener to be moved, and the DDCA said no

Delhi’s traffic police wanted India’s T20I opener against Afghanistan rescheduled because of the BRICS Summit. The DDCA says the match stays where it...

Sep 5, 2026

India will play Japan on 22 September, at a ground that normally holds 500 people

A T20 international nobody had on the calendar a week ago. The BCCI and the Japan Cricket Association have agreed a one-off match in Tochigi, and it c...

Sep 4, 2026

Aslam Inamdar: PKL stats, records and why his best season was not the one he won

Aslam Inamdar has 621 Pro Kabaddi points from 87 matches and a raiding rate a third below his peak. Here is why India still picked him for the Asian G...

Sep 4, 2026

Ayan Lohchab: PKL stats, records and the season he raided a third more and got caught less

Ayan Lohchab won PKL Best Raider in his second season with 316 raid points, the third-biggest raiding season the league has produced. The column that...

Sep 4, 2026

India defend two kabaddi golds with eight Asian Games debutants

Sunil Kumar replaces Pawan Sehrawat as captain, Pushpa Rana takes over the women’s team, and the draw in Japan keeps India away from Iran until the se...

Sep 3, 2026

Laxman takes India to the Asian Games, and Gambhir stays home for the West Indies ODIs

India will run two coaching set-ups this month, with VVS Laxman leading the Asian Games squad in Japan while Gautam Gambhir stays back for the West In...

Sep 2, 2026

Pawan Sehrawat: PKL records, stats and the three seasons that still carry his career

Pawan Sehrawat has 1,340 raid points from 142 PKL matches and a single-match record nobody has touched since 2019. He goes to the Asian Games this mon...

Sep 2, 2026

Devank Dalal: PKL stats, records and the best raiding rate the league has seen

Devank Dalal scored 271 raid points in 16 matches of PKL 12, a rate no season in the league’s history has matched. His own team then rested him, and h...