The 2026 Men's Asian Games Qualifier was the qualification tournament for the men's cricket event at the 2026 Asian Games. It was held from 31 May to 9 June 2026 in Singapore. The tournament served as the primary pathway to determine the final four teams advancing to the main event in Nagoya, Japan.
The qualification process determined the final ten-team lineup, with six spots filled automatically by the host nation Japan and the region's five ICC Full members. The final four berths were decided through this tournament, where seven teams were split into two groups, with the top two from each group advancing to the semi-finals. The semi-finalists qualified for the main tournament in Japan.
Hong Kong, Malaysia, Nepal and Oman advanced to the semi-finals and hence qualified for the Asian Games.
Squads Junaid Aziz (c) Numan Yousuf (vc) Abdul Samad Abdul Rauf Muhammad Adil Mohammad Hamza (wk) Mohamad Junaid Khushi Abdulla Pervaiz (wk) Shujaat Rasool Hamza Riaz Mohammed Sameer Abid Ullah Shah Mohammad Waleed Yousif Wali Abdullah Mohd Yousaf Sameer Yousuf Tian Sen Qun (c) Chen Zhuo Yue Deng Jinqi Du Jianhao Du Jianyao (wk) Luo Shilin Ma Qiancheng Meng Jianhao Qi Shuai Yang Wangjie Zhao Zhilong Shenjian Zheng Zhuang Zelin Zong Yuechao Yasim Murtaza (c) Babar Hayat (vc) Mohammad Ghazanfar Hafeez Khan Anas Khan Ehsan Khan Nizakat Khan Shiv Mathur (wk) Hassan Khan Mohammad Waheed Mohammad Nasrulla Rana Anshuman Rath Ayush Shukla Shahid Wasif (wk) Syed Aziz (c) Muhammad Haziq Aiman (wk) Muhammad Akram Adeshlie Alias Azri Azhar Amir Khan Aslam Khan Rahim Khan Sharvin Muniandy Pavandeep Singh Virandeep Singh Muhamad Syahadat Vijay Unni Dipendra Singh Airee (c) Shahab Alam Lokesh Bam (wk) Kushal Bhurtel Sundeep Jora Sompal Kami Karan KC Sandeep Lamichhane Kushal Malla Sher Malla Rohit Paudel Aarif Sheikh Aasif Sheikh (wk) Nandan Yadav Sufyan Mehmood (c) Muzaffar Shiralkar (vc, wk) Abdul Jalil (wk) Faris Al Balushi Issa Al Balushi Mohammed Al Balushi Munthir Al Balushi Nawed Al Balushi Rashad Al Balushi Shuaib Al Balushi Wasim Al Balushi Zubair Al Balushi Ahmed Al Zadjali Sameer Othman Rezza Gaznavi (c) Jeevan Santhanam (vc) Harsha Bharadwaj Mahiyu Bhatiya Girin Gune Aslan Jafri Neil Karnik Neel Mittal (wk) Ishaan Sawney Mason Arthur Sherry Pratham Somani (wk) Venkatesan Thiyanesh Daksh Tyagi Aaron Varghese Kapish Venkatraman Despite not being included in the initial squads, Abdul Rauf and Abid Ullah Shah of Bahrain, alongside Singapore's Aaron Varghese, featured in the tournament's matches.
Group stage
Group A Points table
Fixtures
Group B Points table
Fixtures
Knockout stage
Bracket
Semi-finals
3rd place play-off
Final
See also Cricket at the 2026 Asian Games – Men's tournament Cricket at the 2026 Asian Games – Women's Qualifier Cricket at the 2026 Asian Games – Women's tournament 2026 Asian Games
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