The Cricket tournament at the 2026 Asian Games is being held between 17 September and 3 October 2026 at Kōrogi Sports Park. Both men's and women's Twenty20 International tournaments are scheduled to be played from 17 September to 3 October 2026. This is the sport's fourth appearance at the Games. India are the defending champions in both the Men's and the Women's events. In the Women's event, India defended its gold medal after defeating Sri Lanka by 147 runs, and Pakistan secured the bronze after defeating Bangladesh by 31 runs. In the Men's event, India also defended its gold medal after defeating Pakistan by 19 runs, and Sri Lanka secured the bronze after defeating Bangladesh by 63 runs.
Background Inclusion of cricket A final decision on the inclusion of cricket was scheduled for 2025, with the Asian Cricket Council having pushed for the bid, and the then-OCA President Randhir Singh was "hopeful" for it. Its inclusion would act as the Asian qualifiers event for the 2028 Summer Olympics. On 28 April 2025, the organizing committee approved the inclusion of cricket and mixed martial arts to the programme, following a request from OCA.
Competition venue All the matches are played at the Kōrogi Sports Park grounds for both the men's and women's team events. The venue had previously hosted the 2026 Men's T20 World Cup East Asia-Pacific Sub-regional Qualifier in earlier that year. A temporary stand was built to increase the capacity to 2,000. Nisshin, AichiKōrogi Sports ParkCapacity: 2,000
Schedule The schedule for the tournament is as follows: PPreliminary round¼Quarterfinals½SemifinalsFFinals Event↓/Date → 17Thu 18Fri 19Sat 20Sun 21Mon 22Tue 23Wed 24Thu 25Fri 26Sat 27Sun 28Mon 29Tue 30Wed 1Thu 2Fri 3SatMen's teamcolspan=7 PPP¼¼½F¼¼½ Fcolspan=11
Teams and qualification Japan automatically qualified for both events as the host. The Asian teams being the ICC full members qualfiied for the tournament, while other teams qualify through a separate tournament. The men's qualifier event was held in West Coast, Singapore. The women's qualifier event were held in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. NationMen'sWomen's Total: 12 NOCs 10 8
Men's event
A total of ten teams competes in the men's event.
Mode of QualificationDateHostsBerthsQualified teamsHost countrycolspan=2 1ICC Full Memberscolspan=2 52026 Asian Games Qualifier31 May – 8 June 2026 Singapore4Total10
Women's event
A total of eight teams competes in the women's event.
Mode of QualificationDateHostBerthsQualified teamsHost countrycolspan=2 1ICC Full Memberscolspan=2 42026 Asian Games Qualifier26 – 31 May 20263 Total 8
Seedings The seedings for the two events were decided using the ICC T20I Rankings as of 23 July 2026.
Medal summary Medal table
Medalists
Men's tournamentShreyas IyerTilak VarmaRavi BishnoiJasprit BumrahShivam DubeIshan KishanVipraj NigamAxar PatelSanju SamsonAbhishek SharmaArshdeep SinghWashington SundarVaibhav SooryavanshiYash ThakurSahibzada FarhanAbdul SamadAbrar AhmedHaider AliSaim AyubAhmed DaniyalAkif JavedUsman KhanArafat MinhasSaad MasoodSufyan MoqimHasan NawazAli RazaMaaz SadaqatMohammad Wasim Jr.Sahan ArachchigeAshen BandaraLasith CroospulleKeshan de LiveraNiroshan DickwellaBinura FernandoNuwanidu FernandoTharindu HansakaDushan HemanthaSineth JayawardenaChamika KarunaratnePramod MadushanWanuja SahanNuwan ThusharaShree CharaniDeepti SharmaRicha GhoshKamalini GunalanShafali VermaSmriti MandhanaArundhati ReddyRadha YadavHarmanpreet KaurKranti GaudShreyanka PatilBharti FulmaliNandani SharmaPratika RawalKavisha DilhariHansima KarunaratneImesha DulaniKawya KavindiRashmika SewwandiAnushka SanjeewaniSanjana KavindiMithali AyodhyaKaushini NuthyanganaChamari AthapaththuHasini PereraChamudi PrabodaNimasha MadushaniSugandika KumariHumna BilalNashra SundhuTasmia RubabUmm-e-HaniFatima SanaMomina RiasatAliya RiazEyman FatimaEman NaseerGull FerozaSaira JabeenTuba HassanAyesha Zafar
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