New Delhi [India], July 24 (ANI): The males’s cricket workforce of India has secured direct entry into the knockout stage of the 2026 Asian Games.
Bangladesh, Pakistan and Sri Lanka have additionally sealed direct qualification for the knockout stage of the 2026 Asian Games.
While Afghanistan, Hong Kong, Japan, Malaysia, Nepal and Oman will compete within the preliminary spherical for the remaining spots.
The attracts and teams for each the boys’s and girls’s cricket tournaments have been introduced on Thursday. The males’s competitors will function 10 groups, whereas the ladies’s occasion will see eight sides battle for the title, as per ESPNcricinfo.
The girls’s match will begin with the quarter-final fixtures: India vs Japan, Bangladesh vs China, Sri Lanka vs Malaysia and Pakistan vs Thailand.
The competitors will run from September 17 to 22. The males’s version – from September 24 to October 1 – can have Afghanistan, Japan and Nepal in Group A and Hong Kong, Malaysia and Oman in Group B within the opening spherical.
The high two groups from every group will advance to the knockout stage, the place they are going to be a part of the 4 groups which have already secured direct qualification. All matches will probably be performed in Nagoya, Japan, and within the T20 format.
India had clinched gold medals in each the boys’s and girls’s cricket occasions on the 2023 Asian Games. The males’s ultimate was deserted resulting from rain after Afghanistan managed to play 18.2 overs, with India awarded the gold medal because the higher-seeded workforce.
In the ladies’s competitors, India defeated Sri Lanka by 19 runs within the ultimate to safe the highest honour. (ANI)