Cricket at the 2010 Asian Games

Cricket made its debut at the 16th Asian Games 2010 at Guangzhou, China^[1] where it was one of 42 sports competed in. The matches were played in Twenty20 format.

Both Men's and Women's tournaments were conducted. In the men's event host nation China, were joined by three of the four ICC Full Members in Asia, Bangladesh, Pakistan and Sri Lanka as well as Afghanistan who played in the 2010 ICC World Twenty20. Due to other international commitments, Sri Lanka, Bangladesh and Pakistan fielded understrength teams whilst India did not participate. Bangladesh defeated Afghanistan in the final event to win the gold medal while the latter won the silver. The bronze went to Pakistan after they beat Sri Lanka in the third-place match.

In the women's event China played with ICC Women's Cricket Full Member Pakistan. India and Sri Lanka did not participate. Pakistan won its first cricket gold in women's event while Bangladesh gained a silver. Japan defeated China in the bronze medal match, in what could be a boost for cricket in Japan.

Medal summary

Medal table

Rank	Nation	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Total
1	Bangladesh (BAN)	1	1	0	2
2	Pakistan (PAK)	1	0	1	2
3	Afghanistan (AFG)	0	1	0	1
4	Japan (JPN)	0	0	1	1
Total		2	2	2	6

Medalists

Event	Gold	Silver	Bronze
Men	Bangladesh (BAN) Mohammad Ashraful Shamsur Rahman Naeem Islam Faisal Hossain Shahadat Hossain Mahbubul Alam Nazmul Hossain Mohammed Nazimuddin Suhrawadi Shuvo Dolar Mahmud Mithun Ali Nasir Hossain Rony Talukdar Shuvagoto Hom Sabbir Rahman	Afghanistan (AFG) Gulbudeen Naib Mohammad Shahzad Mohammad Sami Agha Mohammad Nabi Karim Sadiq Shafiqullah Shafaq Mirwais Ashraf Shabir Noori Shapoor Zadran Asghar Stanikzai Samiullah Shinwari Nawroz Mangal Hamid Hassan Aftab Alam	Pakistan (PAK) Khalid Latif Azeem Ghumman Naeemuddin Qazi Mohammad Irshad Lal Kumar Sheharyar Ghani Aizaz Cheema Sarmad Bhatti Naeem Anjum Raza Hasan Usman Qadir Bilawal Bhatti Akbar-ur-Rehman Sharjeel Khan Jalat Khan
Women	Pakistan (PAK) Sana Mir Batool Fatima Nida Dar Nahida Khan Bismah Maroof Nain Abidi Asmavia Iqbal Kainat Imtiaz Marina Iqbal Mariam Hasan Sania Iqbal Masooma Junaid Sana Gulzar Javeria Wadood	Bangladesh (BAN) Rumana Ahmed Salma Khatun Shohaly Akhter Ayesha Akhter Chamely Khatun Tithy Rani Sarkar Panna Ghosh Sultana Yesmin Boishakhi Lata Mondol Tazia Akhter Suktara Rahman Jahanara Alam Champa Chakma Sathira Jakir Jesy Farzana Hoque Pinky	Japan (JPN) Erina Kaneko Yuka Yoshida Shizuka Miyaji Atsuko Suda Yuko Saito Ayako Iwasaki Kurumi Ota Ayako Nakayama Mariko Yamamoto Miho Kanno Ema Kuribayashi Shizuka Kubota Fuyuki Kawai Yuko Kuniki Erika Ida

Results

Men

Group round

• Best 4 teams (three of the four ICC Full Members in Asia, Bangladesh, Pakistan and Sri Lanka as well as Afghanistan who played in the 2010 ICC World Twenty20) directly entered the quarterfinals.

Pool C

Team	Pld	W	D	L	NRR	Pts
Malaysia	1	1	0	0	+4.450	2
China	1	0	0	1	−4.450	0

November 21 9:30 Scorecard	Malaysia  162/8 (20 overs)	v	China 73/8 (20 overs)	Malaysia won by 89 runs Guanggong Cricket Stadium, Guangzhou Umpires: Sarika Prasad (SIN) and Buddhi Pradhan (NEP)
	Rakesh Madhavan 68 (58) Li Jian 3/8 (1 over)		Song Yangyang 20 (28) Manrick Singh 2/10 (3 overs)
China won the toss and elected to field.

Pool D

Team	Pld	W	D	L	NRR	Pts
Hong Kong	2	2	0	0	+1.500	4
Nepal	2	1	0	1	+1.125	2
Maldives	2	0	0	2	−3.750	0

November 21 13:30 Scorecard	Hong Kong  115/7 (20 overs)	v	Nepal 85/9 (20 overs)	Hong Kong won by 30 runs Guanggong Cricket Stadium, Guangzhou Umpires: Sarika Prasad (SIN) and Viswanathan Kalidas (MAS)
	Roy Lamsam 47 (61) Amrit Bhattarai 3/16 (4 overs)		Sharad Vesawkar 16 (27) Nadeem Ahmed 3/12 (4 overs)
Hong Kong won the toss and elected to bat.

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November 22 13:30 Scorecard	Nepal  129/9 (20 overs)	v	Maldives 54/8 (20 overs)	Nepal won by 75 runs Guanggong Cricket Stadium, Guangzhou Umpires: Sarika Prasad (SIN) and Li Zhen (CHN)
	Binod Bhandari 32 (22) Hassan Ibrahim 2/16 (4 overs)		Shafraz Jaleel 13 (31) Rahul Vishwakarma 3/9 (4 overs)
Nepal won the toss and elected to bat.

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November 23 13:30 Scorecard	Hong Kong  88/3 (14.1 overs)	v	Maldives 84/9 (20 overs)	Hong Kong won by 7 wickets Guanggong Cricket Stadium, Guangzhou Umpires: Sarika Prasad (SIN) and Sun Jianxin (CHN)
	James Atkinson 44 (30) Moosa Kaleem 1/12 (2.1 overs)		Neesham Nasir 21 (37) Najeeb Amar 2/10 (4 overs)
Maldives won the toss and elected to bat.

Knockout round

	Quarterfinals				Semifinals				Final
	November 22
	Pakistan	183/1
					November 25
	China	55/9
					Pakistan	103/7
	November 24
					Afghanistan	125/8
	Afghanistan	66/2
									November 26
	Hong Kong	63/10
									Afghanistan	118/8
	November 23
									Bangladesh	119/5
	Bangladesh	150/7
					November 25
	Malaysia	80/10
					Bangladesh	102/5			Bronze medal match
	November 24
					Sri Lanka	101/10
	Sri Lanka	73/8							Pakistan	141/4
	Nepal	72/10							Sri Lanka	135/10
									November 26

Quarterfinals

November 22 9:30 Scorecard	Pakistan  183/1 (20 overs)	v	China 55/9 (20 overs)	Pakistan won by 128 runs Guanggong Cricket Stadium, Guangzhou Umpires: Buddhi Pradhan (NEP) and Narayanan Sivan (MAS)
	Khalid Latif 103* (69) Zhang Yufei 1/31 (4 overs)		Li Jian 14 (23) Raza Hasan 3/10 (4 overs)
Pakistan won the toss and elected to bat.

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November 23 9:30 Scorecard	Bangladesh  150/7 (20 overs)	v	Malaysia 80 all out (19.4 overs)	Bangladesh won by 70 runs Guanggong Cricket Stadium, Guangzhou Umpires: Buddhi Pradhan (NEP) and Mosur Ramesh (SIN)
	Mithun Ali 39 (35) Shahrulnizam Yusof 4/21 (4 overs)		Shafiq Sharif 21 (25) Mohammad Ashraful 3/5 (2 overs)
Bangladesh won the toss and elected to bat.

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November 24 9:30 Scorecard	Afghanistan  66/2 (13.2 overs)	v	Hong Kong 63 all out (17.4 overs)	Afghanistan won by 8 wickets Guanggong Cricket Stadium, Guangzhou Umpires: Buddhi Pradhan (NEP) and Viswanathan Kalidas (MAS)
	Nawroz Mangal 20* (14) Nadeem Ahmed 1/13 (4 overs)		Nadeem Ahmed 17 (29) Mirwais Ashraf 3/8 (4 overs)
Hong Kong won the toss and elected to bat.

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November 24 13:30 Scorecard	Sri Lanka  73/8 (18.5 overs)	v	Nepal 72 all out (19.4 overs)	Sri Lanka won by 2 wickets Guanggong Cricket Stadium, Guangzhou Umpires: Sarika Prasad (SIN) and Mosur Ramesh (SIN)
	Jeevantha Kulatunga 20 (20) Paras Khadka 2/7 (4 overs)		Gyanendra Malla 30 (30) Jehan Mubarak 3/6 (3 overs)
Nepal won the toss and elected to bat.

Semifinals

November 25 9:30 scorecard	Pakistan  103/7 (20 overs)	v	Afghanistan 125/8 (20 overs)	Afghanistan won by 22 runs Guanggong Cricket Stadium, Guangzhou Umpires: Sarika Prasad (SIN) and Narayanan Sivan (MAS)
	Khalid Latif 26 (32) Hamid Hassan 2/16 (4 overs)		Shabir Noori 35 (30) Raza Hasan 2/19 (4 overs)
Pakistan won the toss and elected to field.

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November 25 13:30 Scorecard	Bangladesh  102/5 (15.2 overs)	v	Sri Lanka 101 all out (20 overs)	Bangladesh won by 5 wickets Guanggong Cricket Stadium, Guangzhou Umpires: Buddhi Pradhan (NEP) and Mosur Ramesh (SIN)
	Faisal Hossain 33 (24) Nuwan Zoysa 2/15 (2 overs)		Chinthaka Jayasinghe 28 (22) Suhrawadi Shuvo 4/6 (4 overs)
Sri Lanka won the toss and elected to bat.

Bronze medal match

November 26 9:30 scorecard	Pakistan  141/4 (18 overs)	v	Sri Lanka 135 (19.5 overs)	Pakistan won by 6 wickets Guanggong Cricket Stadium, Guangzhou Umpires: Buddhi Pradhan (NEP) and Sun Jianxin (CHN)
	Khalid Latif 53* (42) Sajeewa Weerakoon 1/9 (2 overs)		Jeevantha Kulatunga 31 (29) Raza Hasan 2/19 (4 overs)
Pakistan won the toss and elected to field.

Final

November 26 13:30 scorecard	Afghanistan  118/8 (20 overs)	v	Bangladesh 119/5 (19.3 overs)	Bangladesh won by 5 wickets Guanggong Cricket Stadium, Guangzhou Umpires: Sarika Prasad (SIN) and Buddhi Pradhan (NEP)
	Asghar Stanikzai 38* (36) Mohammad Ashraful 2/3 (1 over)		Naeem Islam 34* (42) Karim Sadiq 2/27 (3 overs)
Afghanistan won the toss and elected to bat.

Women

Group round

Pool A

	Match 1				Match 2				Winners
	China	116/6
	Malaysia	61/8
					China	60/5
					Pakistan	64/1
	Pakistan	50/2
	Thailand	49/10
									Pakistan	A1
								China	A2
	Malaysia	63/10
	Thailand	94/8
					China	93/6
					Thailand	92/6

November 13 9:30 scorecard	China  116/6 (20 overs)	v	Malaysia 61/8 (20 overs)	China won by 55 runs Guanggong Cricket Stadium, Guangzhou Umpires: Buddhi Pradhan (NEP) and Sarika Prasad (SIN)
	Sun Huan 47 (49) Rewina Mohammad 3/21 (4 overs)		Siti Mazila Hanafi 15* (16) Mei Chunhua 3/8 (4 overs)
China won the toss and elected to bat.

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November 14 9:30 scorecard	Pakistan  50/2 (8.3 overs)	v	Thailand 49 all out (19.3 overs)	Pakistan won by 8 wickets Guanggong Cricket Stadium, Guangzhou Umpires: Buddhi Pradhan (NEP) and Viswanathan Kalidas (MAS)
	Nida Dar 21 (18) Thanapan Saisud 1/4 (1.3 overs)		Siwaporn Kosathong 10 (37) Sana Gulzar 4/8 (4 overs)
Thailand won the toss and elected to bat.

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November 15 9:30 scorecard	China  60/5 (20 overs)	v	Pakistan 64/1 (12.2 overs)	Pakistan won by 9 wickets Guanggong Cricket Stadium, Guangzhou Umpires: Buddhi Pradhan (NEP) and Narayanan Sivan (MAS)
	Zhang Mei 14 (32) Masooma Junaid 1/7 (4 overs)		Nida Dar 27 (29) Mei Chunhua 1/9 (3 overs)
Pakistan won the toss and elected to field.

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November 16 9:30 scorecard	Malaysia  63 all out (16.2 overs)	v	Thailand 94/8 (20 overs)	Thailand won by 31 runs Guanggong Cricket Stadium, Guangzhou Umpires: Mosur Ramesh (SIN) and Sun Jianxin (CHN)
	Emylia Eliani 19 (30) Nattaya Boochatham 4/7 (3 overs)		Nattakan Chantam 19 (18) Alessandra Shunmugam 3/14 (4 overs)
Thailand won the toss and elected to bat.

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November 17 9:30 scorecard	China  93/6 (20 overs)	v	Thailand 92/6 (20 overs)	China won by 1 run Guanggong Cricket Stadium, Guangzhou Umpires: Mosur Ramesh (SIN) and Narayanan Sivan (MAS)
	Sun Huan 37 (47) Nattakan Chantam 2/11 (4 overs)		Pundarika Prathanmitr 46 (53) Yu Miao 2/10 (2 overs)
China won the toss and elected to bat.

Pool B

	Match 1				Match 2				Winners
	Nepal	62/7
	Japan	64/0
					Japan	57/8
					Bangladesh	111/8
	Bangladesh	26/0
	Hong Kong	25/10
									Bangladesh	B1
								Japan	B2
	Nepal	73/3
	Hong Kong	72/9
					Japan	135/4
					Nepal	90/9

November 13 13:30 scorecard	Nepal  62/7 (20 overs)	v	Japan 64/0 (11.4 overs)	Japan won by 10 wickets Guanggong Cricket Stadium, Guangzhou Umpires: Mosur Ramesh (SIN) and Narayanan Sivan (MAS)
	Roshani Bohara 16 (24) Shizuka Miyaji 2/10 (3 overs)		Ema Kuribayashi 32* (42) Ritu Kumari Kanoujiya 0/7 (2 overs)
Japan won the toss and elected to field.

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November 14 13:30 scorecard	Bangladesh  26/0 (3.4 overs)	v	Hong Kong 25 all out (17.1 overs)	Bangaladesh won by 10 wickets Guanggong Cricket Stadium, Guangzhou Umpires: Sarika Prasad (SIN), Mosur Ramesh (SIN)
	Farzana Hoque Pinky 17* (17) Connie Wong 0/5 (1 over)		Kanwardeep Keenu Gill 11 (39) Chamely Khatun 2/4 (3 overs)
Hong Kong won the toss and elected to bat.

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November 15 13:30 scorecard	Japan  57/8 (20 overs)	v	Bangladesh 111/8 (20 overs)	Bangladesh won by 54 runs Guanggong Cricket Stadium, Guangzhou Umpires: Sarika Prasad (SIN) and Viswanathan Kalidas (MAS)
	Ema Kuribayashi 18 (30) Suktara Rahman 3/6 (4 overs)		Suktara Rahman 37 (45) Kurumi Ota 3/16 (4 overs)
Bangladesh won the toss and elected to bat.

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November 16 13:30 scorecard	Nepal  73/3 (15.2 overs)	v	Hong Kong 72/9 (20 overs)	Nepal won by 7 wickets Guanggong Cricket Stadium, Guangzhou Umpires: Viswanathan Kalidas (MAS) and Liu Jingmin (CHN)
	Nary Thapa 28 (25) Connie Wong 1/7 (3.2 overs)		Connie Wong 47 (55) Nary Thapa 1/6 (4 overs)
Hong Kong won the toss and elected to bat.

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November 17 13:30 scorecard	Japan  135/4 (20 overs)	v	Nepal 90/9 (20 overs)	Japan won by 45 runs Guanggong Cricket Stadium, Guangzhou Umpires: Viswanathan Kalidas (MAS) and Li Zhen (CHN)
	Ema Kuribayashi 63 (60) Sarita Magar 25/2 (4 overs)		Neera Rajopadhyay 37 (47) Kurumi Ota 2/16 (4 overs)
Japan won the toss and elected to bat.

Knockout round

	Semifinals				Final
	November 18
	Bangladesh	35/1
	China	34/10
					November 19
					Bangladesh	92/10
					Pakistan	93/0
					Bronze medal match
	November 18			November 19
	Pakistan	62/1		China	65/6
	Japan	61/8			Japan	66/3

Semifinals

November 18 9:30 scorecard	Bangladesh  35/1 (6.5 overs)	v	China 34 all out (15.5 overs)	Bangladesh won by 9 wickets Guanggong Cricket Stadium, Guangzhou Umpires: Sarika Prasad (SIN) and Mosur Ramesh (SIN)
	Farzana Hoque Pinky 20* (19) Zhou Haijie 1/16 (2.5 overs)		Sun Mengyao 10 (33) Salma Khatun 3/4 (3 overs)
Bangladesh won the toss and elected to field.

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November 18 13:30 scorecard	Japan  61/8 (20 overs)	v	Pakistan 62/1 (10.4 overs)	Pakistan won by 9 wickets Guanggong Cricket Stadium, Guangzhou Umpires: Buddhi Pradhan (NEP) and Viswanathan Kalidas (MAS)
	Ema Kuribayashi 24 (37) Sana Gulzar 2/8 (4 overs)		Javeria Wadood 29 (25) Fuyuki Kawai 1/8 (1 over)
Japan won the toss and elected to bat.

Bronze medal match

November 19 9:30 scorecard	China  65/6 (20 overs)	v	Japan 66/3 (19.1 overs)	Japan won by 7 wickets Guanggong Cricket Stadium, Guangzhou Umpires: Viswanathan Kalidas (MAS), Narayanan Sivan (MAS)
	Zhang Mei 26 (42) Ota Kurumi 2/8 (4 overs)		Ema Kuribayashi 24* (55) Mei Chunhua 1/3 (4 overs)
Japan won the toss and elected to field.

Final

November 19 13:30 scorecard	Bangladesh  92 all out (20 overs)	v	Pakistan 93/0 (15.4 overs)	Pakistan won by 10 wickets Guanggong Cricket Stadium, Guangzhou Umpires: Sarika Prasad (SIN) and Buddhi Pradhan (NEP)
	Salma Khatun 24 (31) Nida Dar 4/16 (4 overs)		Nida Dar 51* (43) Jahanara Alam 0/3 (1 over)
Pakistan won the toss and elected to field.

See also

• Cricket at the 1900 Summer Olympics
• Cricket at the 1998 Commonwealth Games
• Cricket at the South Pacific Games
• ACC Twenty20 Cup

References

• Cricket Officially added for Asiad 2010

1. ^ China catches cricket bug ahead of Asian Games debut BBC 13 November 2010. Retrieved 29 November 2010.

External links

• Official website:cricket (English)
• Official Website:cricket (Chinese)