India vs Pakistan cricket: Asian Games gold medal final – all to know

Who: India vs Pakistan
What: Asian Games 2026, men’s cricket last golden medal match
Where: Korogi Athletic Park, Nisshin, Japan
When: Saturday, October 3, 1:30pm section (04:30 GMT)
How to follow: Al Jazeera Sport volition bring you each the build-up and unrecorded updates from 02:30 GMT.

Cricket’s biggest rivalry volition beryllium renewed this play arsenic India instrumentality connected Pakistan successful the Asian Games men’s cricket final, with the elusive golden medal astatine stake.

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Saturday’s blockbuster clash, played successful the Twenty20 format, volition beryllium held astatine Korogi Athletic Park successful Nisshin, Aichi Prefecture, Japan.

India volition support their Hangzhou 2023 title, portion Pakistan oculus their archetypal gold, having won bronze astatine Guangzhou 2010.

India’s Men successful Blue tin implicit a cricket treble successful Aichi-Nagoya aft the Indian women’s squad clinched gold astatine the commencement of the Games, thrashing Sri Lanka successful the final.

Al Jazeera tells you everything to cognize astir India vs Pakistan:

What happened the past clip India played Pakistan?

India and Pakistan past met successful a T20 World Cup group-stage lucifer successful Colombo, Sri Lanka, connected February 15.

India won that lucifer by 61 runs, with Ishan Kishan’s 77 disconnected 40 guiding them to victory.

When did Pakistan past bushed India?

The past clip Pakistan defeated India successful T20Is dates backmost to September 4, 2022.

Pakistan bushed India by five wickets successful that Asia Cup semifinal, arsenic Mohammad Rizwan top-scored with 71.

How did India and Pakistan scope the Asian Games cricket final?

As 2 of the 4 seeded teams, some India and Pakistan straight qualified for the quarterfinals astatine the Asian Games 2026.

India’s quarterfinal against Afghanistan was abandoned owed to rain, and World No 1 India proceeded to the semifinals owed to their higher seeding, determined by the ICC T20I squad rankings.

In the semis, India thrashed Sri Lanka by 124 runs, dismissing their opponents for 45 successful 9.5 overs.

As for Pakistan, their quarterfinal necktie with Hong Kong, China was besides washed out, and they precocious to the semifinals successful the aforesaid fashion.

World No 6 Pakistan clinched a six-wicket triumph implicit Bangladesh successful their semifinal clash, which was reduced to 13 overs owed to a bedewed outfield.

India vs Pakistan: Head-to-head successful T20Is

• Matches: 17
• India wins: 13
• Pakistan wins: 3
• Tied: 1

What happens if the India vs Pakistan last is washed out?

Rain has disrupted overmuch of the cricket contention successful Aichi-Nagoya.

If Saturday’s last is abandoned owed to rain, India and Pakistan volition stock the golden medal.

This is antithetic from what happened astatine Hangzhou 2023 – India were awarded the golden owed to higher ranking aft their past edition’s last with Afghanistan was washed out.

Key India and Pakistan players to watch

Vaibhav Sooryavanshi and Ishan Kishan (India): India’s 15-year-old batting prodigy Sooryavanshi is undoubtedly 1 of the champion players to ticker retired for crossed each sports astatine the ongoing games. The big-hitting opener scored 38 runs successful the semifinals, smashing six fours and 2 sixes. Middle-order batter Kishan’s unbeaten 80 disconnected 46 balls was, however, the item of that match, with his unthinkable 5 sixes adding other entertainment.

Vaibhav Sooryavanshi is India’s fashionable teen sensation [Andrew Boyers/Reuters]

Sufyan Moqim and Abdul Samad (Pakistan): Left-arm wrist-spin bowler Moqim was the prime of Pakistani bowlers successful their semifinal victory, bagging 3 wickets by conceding 26 runs successful 3 overs. Samad, connected the different hand, dazzled with the bat, scoring a quickfire, unbeaten 30 disconnected 15 balls, smashing 5 fours and a six.

India’s Asian Games cricket squad: 

Shreyas Iyer (captain), Abhishek Sharma, Sanju Samson (wicket-keeper), Ishan Kishan (wicket-keeper), Shivam Dube, Tilak Varma (vice-captain), Axar Patel, Washington Sundar, Vipraj Nigam, Ravi Bishnoi, Jasprit Bumrah, Yash Thakur, Arshdeep Singh, Vaibhav Sooryavanshi

Pakistan’s Asian Games cricket squad:

Sahibzada Farhan (captain), Abdul Samad (vice-captain), Abrar Ahmed, Ahmed Daniyal, Akif Javed, Ali Raza, Arafat Minhas, Haider Ali, Hasan Nawaz, Maaz Sadaqat, Mohammad Salman Mirza, Saad Masood, Saim Ayub, Sufyan Moqim, Usman Khan (wicket-keeper)

List of Asian Games cricket medallists:

Cricket is making its 4th quality astatine the Asian Games.

The athletics debuted astatine Guangzhou 2010 and returned astatine Incheon 2014 earlier being near retired of the programme for Jakarta 2018.

• Guangzhou 2010: Bangladesh (gold), Afghanistan (silver), Pakistan (bronze)
• Incheon 2014: Sri Lanka (gold), Afghanistan (silver), Bangladesh (bronze)
• Hangzhou 2023: India (gold), Afghanistan (silver), Bangladesh (bronze)

Asian Games medal tally

As of Friday, 7:30 GMT, India are sixth and Pakistan are 34th successful the Asian Games medal tally.

• India: 71 medals (12 gold, 25 silver, 34 bronze)
• Pakistan: 6 medals (all bronze)

Where tin I ticker India vs Pakistan?

The Asian Games cricket last betwixt India and Pakistan volition beryllium telecast oregon streamed unrecorded connected the pursuing platforms worldwide:

• India: Sony Sports Network, SonyLIV
• Pakistan: PTV Sports, Ten Sports
• Middle East: beIN Sports
• Malaysia: Astro
• Singapore: Mediacorp
• Japan: TBS