🏏 10/1- Asian Games 🇮🇳 India vs Sri lanka: (Semi Final : 10. 30 am

Pak game at 5.30

Ind game at 10 or 10.30

Both Abandoned 'cause of Heavy rains

Both above team advance to semi final

Pak v Hong kong China heavy Rain

Ind vs Afghanistan heavy Rain

Tournament Rules Warning

The heavy rainfall is driven by the outer bands of Typhoon Dujuan moving over parts of Japan. If the match is completely washed out and cannot produce a minimum five-over-per-side result, India will automatically advance to the semi-finals by virtue of their higher tournament seeding.

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3rd Q-F

Sri lanka v Nepal

Squads:

🪀Nepal Squad: Kushal Bhurtel, Aasif Sheikh(w), Rohit Paudel, Kushal Malla, Gulsan Jha, Dipendra Singh Airee(c), Sundeep Jora, Sompal Kami, Karan KC, Sandeep Lamichhane, Nandan Yadav, Lalit Rajbanshi, Aarif Sheikh, Lokesh Bam, Sher Malla

❤️Sri Lanka Squad: Ashen Bandara, Lasith Croospulle, Sineth Jayawardena, Niroshan Dickwella(w), Nuwanidu Fernando, Sahan Arachchige(c), Chamika Karunaratne, Dushan Hemantha, Binura Fernando, Vijayakanth Viyaskanth, Nuwan Thushara, Tharindu Ratnayake, Wanuja Sahan, Sohan de Livera, Garuka Sanketh

Shanto injured not playing

• Sri Lanka have won only one out of their last ten T20Is.
• Out of the top five run-getters in T20s from the two squads (not just T20Is), Dickwella (3323) is the only Sri Lankan; the other four are from Nepal: Bhurtel (2503), Dipendra Singh Airee (2341), Rohit Paudel (2212) and Aasif Sheikh (Nepal 1987).

❤️match Abandoned 🪀 SRi lanka with higher ICC ranking enter in semi -final & Nepal Knock out 🤣

Tournament Rules Warning

The heavy rainfall is driven by the outer bands of Typhoon Dujuan moving over parts of Japan. If the match is completely washed out and cannot produce a minimum five-over-per-side result, India will automatically advance to the semi-finals by virtue of their higher tournament seeding.

Q-F /4

BD vs Malaysia at 10.30 today sep 29

🪀Middle-order batter Yasir Ali, who Bangladesh are keen to give more game-time in the Asian Games, debuted in T20Is in 2022. He made a comeback in the three-match Zimbabwe series, scoring a fifty and having a strike rate of 145.76.

🪀Virandeep Singh is also Malaysia's top run-scorer in T20Is across his seven-year career, with 3515 runs at a strike rate of 127.35 and an average of 37.

🪀Bangladesh won the gold medal in the first-ever men's cricket tournament at the Asian Games, back in 2010. In the two editions since then - in 2014 and 2023 - they have finished in third place both times.

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Bangladesh Squad: Litton Das(c), Tanzid Hasan 🍏🍏Tamim, Parvez Hossain Emon(w), Towhid Hridoy, Yasir Ali, Mosaddek Hossain, Mustafizur Rahman, Nasum Ahmed, Saif Hassan, Mahedi Hasan, Hasan Mahmud, Shoriful Islam, Rishad Hossain

🍏Malaysia Squad: Muhammad Haziq Aiman, Syed Aziz Mubarak(c), Virandeep Singh, Muhamad Syahadat, Muhammad Amir Azim, Ainool Hafizs(w), Sharvin Muniandy, Muhammad Akram, Muhammad Wafiq, Pavandeep Singh, Vijay Unni, Aslam Khan Malik, Rahim Khan, Amir Khan Malik, Azri Azhar

Okayed same as above

Sri lanka and bangladesh in semi final as NON STOP RAIN washed out all Q-F

Suryavanshi says if rain not stops by oct 3rd we will win Gold Award with out playing single ball 🇮🇳 possible koz ICC RANKING INDIA #:1 IN ASIAN TERETORRY

ANYWAY ind v SL Semi 🏵️

Pak v BD Semi ( bhai vs Bhai)🏏

Asian Games T20's

India vs Sri Lanka

Tomorrow

10:30 AM

2nd Semi-Final, Nisshin, October 01, 2026, Asian Games Men's Cricket Competition

Preview

Rain stays away as India and Sri Lanka look for fair contest to enter final

The forecast is for a sunny, warm day in Nisshin; in case of another washout, India will enter the gold-medal round for being the higher-ranked team

Big picture: Big gulf in quality between India and Sri Lanka

After six abandoned matches, five of them without a toss, because of incessant rain - Shreyas Iyer called it a "torrential downpour" - in Nisshin, we might finally get some cricket again at the men's Asian Games.

The timing couldn't have been better because the four remaining games will decide the positions on the podium. Pakistan and Bangladesh still don't have a gold in this edition (as of Wednesday morning); Sri Lanka have just one; India have seven but that's well behind the 28 they finished with in 2023.

India are the defending champions, and it will take a gargantuan effort from the second-string Sri Lanka side to throw them off their path. Even the full-strength Sri Lanka T20I side has not been able to score 150 of late, or win a match since June, and have only one win from their last ten attempts. The Sri Lanka squad that hasn't played even a moment of cricket since landing in Japan has a captain - Sahan Arachchige - with just one T20I to his name, which came back in the 2023 Asian Games, when they lost to Afghanistan. The more recognisable names are Niroshan Dickwella and Ashen Bandara, who haven't featured in a T20I since 2021 and 2023 respectively. There are six other players in that squad of 15 who have played fewer than ten T20Is each, and another four who are uncapped.

India, unlike most other Full Member sides, have sent their big guns to Japan.

There's also an ODIs series going on at home, and the ODI World Cup is just a year away. But they chose to send the likes of Jasprit Bumrah, Shreyas Iyer and Ishan Kishan, among others, to Japan instead, which shows their commitment to the gold-medal cause.

Rain or shine, Sri Lanka will have to sweat it out on Thursday to try and get the better of India.

Form guide

India WWWWW (last five completed games, most recent first)

Sri Lanka LLLLW

In the spotlight: Washington Sundar and Niroshan Dickwella

India have been plagued by injuries of late and one of the names on that list was that of Washington Sundar, who returned to action in the Japan T20I last week. He didn't get to bat, but bowled two overs and took two wickets in his first game in two months. India would want to give him more game time before he heads back home for the West Indies T20Is that start on October 6. Washington has otherwise had an impressive year across formats with an unbeaten 52 in an ODI to give India their first win of their UK tour after he took a four-for in the Test against Afghanistan, in which he also scored 52*.

Niroshan Dickwella last played a T20I in 2021 and he is back in the scheme of things despite an underwhelming Lanka Premier League a couple of months ago, where he scored only 110 runs in six innings at a strike rate of 142.85 while averaging 18.33. He has, however, been among the runs of late, and scored a brisk 80 off 115 balls in the first Test against India. If he gets to bat on Tuesday, this could be a great chance for Dickwella to show why he was once an all-format regular for Sri Lanka.

Team news

India had rested Bumrah for the one-off T20I against Japan and played Arshdeep Singh and Yash Thakur as the quicks, and Ravi Bishnoi, Axar Patel and Washington as the lead spinners. India will now have to decide whom to leave out for Bumrah. The other question will be whether to give Vaibhav Sooryavanshi a game, although neither Abhishek Sharma nor Sanju Samson have any reason to be dropped.

India (possible): 1 Abhishek Sharma, 2 Sanju Samson (wk), 3 Ishan Kishan, 4 Shreyas Iyer (capt), 5 Tilak Varma, 6 Axar Patel, 7 Shivam Dube, 8 Washington Sundar, 9 Ravi Bishnoi, 10 Yash Thakur/Arshdeep Singh, 11 Jasprit Bumrah

Sri Lanka will be expected to hand out a few debut caps and give game time to some of the more inexperienced players.

Sri Lanka (possible): 1 Niroshan Dickwella (wk), 2 Lasith Croospulle, 3 Sahan Arachchige (capt), 4 Nuwanidu Fernando, 5 Ashen Bandara, 6 Chamika Karunaratne, 7 Tharindu Ratnayake, 8 Wanuja Sahan, 9 Vijayakanth Viyaskanth, 10 Nuwan Thushara, 11 Binura Fernando

Pitch and conditions

After a spell of heavy rain in Nisshin, the sun was out in all its glory on Wednesday. The forecast for Thursday is "very warm with plenty of sunshine" according to AccuWeather and "mainly sunny" according to The Weather Channel, with temperatures expected to go up to 30 degrees Celsius and the humidity to be around 60%.

In case unexpected rain washes out this game too, India will go through to the final for being higher-ranked side.

Stats and trivia

🇮🇳India have a win-loss ratio of 2.375 (19 wins from 27) this year whereas Sri Lanka's is only 0.384 (five wins from 18). Sri Lanka are at the bottom among Full Member teams.

🙏Dickwella made his T20I debut against India, back in 2016. The last time he faced India was in December 2017 when MS Dhoni was still playing for India and Rohit Sharma had just taken over the T20I captaincy.

-Coincidentally, Iyer, Bumrah and Washington played that series and are in the current Asian Games side too