The Men's cricket event was a part of the 2026 Asian Games which was played from 24 September to 3 October 2026 at the Kōrogi Sports Park in Aichi Prefecture, Nisshin, Japan. A total of 10 teams participated with the matches played in Twenty-20 format.
All the quarter-final matches were abandoned without the toss, due to rain with Pakistan, India, Sri Lanka and Bangladesh advancing to the semi-finals, being the higher ranked sides against their respective opponents.
India defended its gold medal after defeating Pakistan by 19 runs, and Sri Lanka secured the bronze after defeating Bangladesh by 63 runs.
Participating nations On 28 April 2025, the organizing committee approved the inclusion of cricket and mixed martial arts to the programme, following a request from OCA. The tournament featured 10 nations.
Mode of QualificationDateHostsBerthsQualified teamsHost countrycolspan=2 1ICC Full Memberscolspan=2 52026 Asian Games Qualifier31 May – 8 June 2026 Singapore4Total10
Draw The seeds were determined based on the ICC Men's T20I Team Rankings as of 23 July 2026, followed by an official draw on the same day to allocate the preliminary stage groups and knockout stage bracket.
Format The six lowest-seeded teams were placed into two groups of three through an official team draw for the preliminary stage, played in a single round-robin format from September 24 to September 26. The top two teams from each group advance to the quarter-finals, where they join the four highest-seeded teams who received automatic byes based on their ICC rankings.
The knockouts then proceed through the quarter-finals and semi-finals, culminating in the gold medal match played between the semi-final winners, with the semi-final losers competing in the bronze medal match from September 28 to October 3.
Squads Darwish Rasooli (c) Abdullah Ahmadzai Mohammad Akram Ismat Alam Faridoon Dawoodzai Hassan Eisakhil Mohammad Ishaq (wk) Karim Janat Faisal Shinozada Nangialai Kharoti Imran Mir Arab Gul Momand Farmanullah Safi Khalid Taniwal Najibullah Zadran Litton Das (c) Tawhid Hridoy (vc) Nasum Ahmed Yasir Ali Parvez Hossain Emon Mahedi Hasan Tanzid Hasan Saif Hassan Mosaddek Hossain Rishad Hossain Aliss Islam Shoriful Islam Hasan Mahmud Mustafizur Rahman Mohammad Saifuddin Najmul Hossain Shanto Yasim Murtaza (c) Babar Hayat (vc) Anas Khan Anshy Rath Shiv Mathur Shahid Wasif Hafeez Khan Nasrulla Rana Nizakat Khan Rajab Hussain Ehsan Khan Mohammad Ghazanfar Mohammad Waheed Ayush Shukla Mohammad Hassan Khan Shreyas Iyer (c) Tilak Varma (vc) Ravi Bishnoi Jasprit Bumrah Varun Chakravarthy Shivam Dube Ishan Kishan (wk) Vipraj Nigam Axar Patel Harshit Rana Nitish Kumar Reddy Sanju Samson (wk) Abhishek Sharma Arshdeep Singh Washington Sundar Vaibhav Sooryavanshi Yash Thakur Kendel Kadowaki-Fleming (c) Charlie Hara-Hinze Benjamin Ito-Davis Alester Kadowaki-Fleming Kohei Kubota Jake Kusuda-Nairn Wataru Miyauchi (wk) Reo Sakurano-Thomas Alex Shirai-Patmore (wk) Shoma Sugaya-Slater Declan Suzuki Tsuyoshi Takada Ibrahim Takahashi Makoto Taniyama Lachlan Yamamoto-Lake Syed Aziz (c) Ainool Hafizs (wk) Muhamad Syahadat Muhammad Amir Virandeep Singh Pavandeep Singh Muhammad Haziq Aiman Sharvin Muniandy Muhammad Akram Muhammad Wafiq Vijay Unni Azri Azhar Amir Khan Aslam Khan Rahim Khan Dipendra Singh Airee (c) Lokesh Bam (wk) Kushal Bhurtel Gulshan Jha Sundeep Jora Sompal Kami Karan KC Sandeep Lamichhane Kushal Malla Sher Malla Rohit Paudel Lalit Rajbanshi Aarif Sheikh Aasif Sheikh (wk) Nandan Yadav Sufyan Mehmood (c) Muzaffar Shiralkar (vc, wk) Faris Al Balushi Issa Al Balushi Mohammed Al Balushi Nawed Al Balushi Qais Al Balushi Shuaib Al Balushi Waheed Al Balushi Wasim Al Balushi Zubair Al Balushi Abdul Jalil (wk) Mohammed Othman Sameer Othman Ahmed Al Zadjali Sahibzada Farhan (c) Abdul Samad (vc) Abrar Ahmed Haider Ali Saim Ayub Ahmed Daniyal Akif Javed Usman Khan (wk) Arafat Minhas Salman Mirza Saad Masood Sufyan Moqim Hasan Nawaz Ali Raza Maaz Sadaqat Mohammad Wasim Jr. Sahan Arachchige (c) Ashen Bandara Lasith Croospulle Keshan de Livera Niroshan Dickwella (wk) Binura Fernando Nuwanidu Fernando Tharindu Hansaka Dushan Hemantha Sineth Jayawardena Chamika Karunaratne Pramod Madushan Wanuja Sahan Nuwan Thushara Vijayakanth Viyaskanth
Group stage
The fixtures of the tournament were announced on 26 August 2026 to determine the preliminary stage and the knockout stage fixtures.
Group A
Group B
Knockout stage
Bracket
Quarterfinals
Semifinals
Bronze medal match
Gold medal match
Final standing
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See also 2026 Asian Games – Men's Qualifier 2026 Asian Games – Women's Qualifier 2026 Asian Games – Women's tournament Cricket at the 2026 Asian Games 2026 Asian Games
Notes
References
External links Tournament home at Cricinfo