Cricket at the 2010 Asian Games

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

Cricket at the 2010 Asian Games
Venue	Guanggong International Cricket Stadium
Dates	13–26 November
Competitors	246 from 11 nations
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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.

Schedule

P

Preliminary round

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Quarterfinals

½

Semifinals

F

Finals

Event↓/Date →	13th Sat	14th Sun	15th Mon	16th Tue	17th Wed	18th Thu	19th Fri	20th Sat	21st Sun	22nd Mon		23rd Tue		24th Wed	25th Thu	26th Fri
Men									P	P	¼	P	¼	¼	½	F
Women	P	P	P	P	P	½	F

Medalists

Event	Gold	Silver	Bronze
Men details	Bangladesh Mohammad Ashraful Shamsur Rahman Naeem Islam Faisal Hossain Shahadat Hossain Mahbubul Alam Mohammad Nazmul Hossain Nazimuddin Suhrawadi Shuvo Dolar Mahmud Mohammad Mithun Nasir Hossain Rony Talukdar Shuvagata Hom Sabbir Rahman	Afghanistan Gulbadin Naib Mohammad Shahzad Sami Agha Mohammad Nabi Karim Sadiq Shafiqullah Mirwais Ashraf Shabir Noori Shapoor Zadran Asghar Stanikzai Samiullah Shinwari Nawroz Mangal Hamid Hassan Aftab Alam	Pakistan Khalid Latif Azeem Ghumman Naeemuddin 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 details	Pakistan Sana Mir Batool Fatima Nida Dar Nahida Khan Bismah Maroof Nain Abidi Asmavia Iqbal Kainat Imtiaz Marina Iqbal Mariam Hasan Sania Khan Masooma Junaid Sana Gulzar Javeria Khan	Bangladesh Rumana Ahmed Salma Khatun Shohely Akhter Ayesha Akhter Chamely Khatun Tithy Sarkar Panna Ghosh Sultana Yesmin Lata Mondal Tazia Akhter Ayasha Rahman Jahanara Alam Champa Chakma Shathira Jakir Fargana Hoque	Japan 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

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
Totals (4 entries)		2	2	2	6

Draw

Men

The three Test-playing countries and Afghanistan (who played in the 2010 ICC World Twenty20) were seeded and went directly to the knock-out stage.

Pool C   Malaysia   Singapore*   China

Pool D     Nepal   Hong Kong   Maldives

* Withdrew

Quarterfinals

•   Sri Lanka vs. 2nd Pool D
•   Pakistan vs. 2nd Pool C
•   Bangladesh vs. 1st Pool C
•   Afghanistan vs. 1st Pool D

Women

Pool A   Pakistan   Thailand   China   Malaysia

Pool B   Bangladesh   Hong Kong     Nepal   Japan

Final standing

Men

Further information: Cricket at the 2010 Asian Games – Men

Rank	Team	Pld	W	L	T	NR
	Bangladesh	3	3	0	0	0
	Afghanistan	3	2	1	0	0
	Pakistan	3	2	1	0	0
4	Sri Lanka	3	1	2	0	0
5	China	2	0	2	0	0
5	Hong Kong	3	2	1	0	0
5	Malaysia	2	1	1	0	0
5	Nepal	3	1	2	0	0
9	Maldives	2	0	2	0	0

Women

Further information: Cricket at the 2010 Asian Games – Women

Rank	Team	Pld	W	L	T	NR
	Pakistan	4	4	0	0	0
	Bangladesh	4	3	1	0	0
	Japan	5	3	2	0	0
4	China	5	2	3	0	0
5	Nepal	3	1	2	0	0
5	Thailand	3	1	2	0	0
7	Hong Kong	2	0	2	0	0
7	Malaysia	2	0	2	0	0

References

• Cricket Officially added for Asia 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)