2010 Asian Games / Cricket

A cricket competition was held at the 2010 Asian Games in the Chinese metropolis of Guangzhou .

Cricket was part of the Asian Games for the first time in 2010. The tournament with nine national teams took place from November 21st to 26th. The games were played in Twenty20 format.

Due to international game series, the national teams of Bangladesh , Pakistan and Sri Lanka only participated with second-rate teams, while India did not even take part. Still, Bangladesh, Pakistan, Sri Lanka and Afghanistan were automatically qualified for the quarter-finals.

Attendees

• Afghanistan
• Bangladesh
• China
• Hong Kong
• Malaysia
• Maldives
• Nepal
• Pakistan
• Sri Lanka

Preliminary round

Group C

table

Group C	Sp.	S.	N	U	NO	P	RR
Malaysia	1	1	0	0	0	2	+4,450
People's Republic of China	1	0	1	0	0	0	−4,450

November 21 scorecard	Guangzhou	Malaysia 162-8 (20)	-	People's Republic of China 73-8 (20)
		Malaysia wins with 89 runs

Group D

table

Group D	Sp.	S.	N	U	NO	P	RR
Hong Kong	2	2	0	0	0	4th	+1,500
Nepal	2	1	1	0	0	2	+1,125
Maldives	2	0	2	0	0	0	−3,750

November 21 scorecard	Guangzhou	Hong Kong 115-7 (20)	-	Nepal 85-9 (20)
		Hong Kong wins with 30 runs

November 22nd scorecard	Guangzhou	Nepal 129-9 (20)	-	Maldives 54-8 (20)
		Nepal wins with 75 runs

November 23 scorecard	Guangzhou	Maldives 84-9 (20)	-	Hong Kong 88-3 (14.1)
		Hong Kong wins with 7 wickets

Final round

Quarter finals

November 22nd scorecard	Guangzhou	Pakistan 183-1 (20)	-	People's Republic of China 55-9 (20)
		Pakistan wins with 128 runs

November 23 scorecard	Guangzhou	Bangladesh 150-7 (20)	-	Malaysia 80 (19.4)
		Bangladesh wins with 70 runs

November 24th scorecard	Guangzhou	Hong Kong 63 (17.4)	-	Afghanistan 66-2 (13.2)
		Afghanistan wins with 8 wickets

November 24th scorecard	Guangzhou	Nepal 72 (19.4)	-	Sri Lanka 73-8 (18.5)
		Sri Lanka wins with 2 wickets

Semifinals

November 25th scorecard	Guangzhou	Afghanistan 125-8 (20)	-	Pakistan 103-7 (20)
		Afghanistan wins with 22 runs

November 25th scorecard	Guangzhou	Sri Lanka 101 (20)	-	Bangladesh 102-5 (15.2)
		Bangladesh wins with 5 wickets

3rd place match

November 26th scorecard	Guangzhou	Sri Lanka 135 (19.5)	-	Pakistan 141-4 (18)
		Pakistan wins with 6 wickets

final

November 26th scorecard	Guangzhou	Afghanistan 118-8 (20)	-	Bangladesh 119-5 (19.3)
		Bangladesh wins with 5 wickets

Medalist

space	country	player
1	Bangladesh	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, Shuvagata Hom, Sabbirman
2	Afghanistan	Gulbudeen Naib, Mohammad Shahzad, Mohammad Sami Agha, Mohammad Nabi, Karim Sadiq, Shafiqullah Shafiq, Mirwais Ashraf, Shabir Noori, Shapoor Zadran, Asghar Stanikzai, Samiullah Shenwari, Nawroz Alam Mangal, Hameed Hassan., Aftab Alam Mangal
3	Pakistan	Khalid Latif, Azeem Ghumman, Naeemuddin Qazi, Mohammad Irshad, Lal Kumar, Sheharyar Ghani, Aizaz Cheema, Sarmad Bhatti, Naeem Anjum, Raza Hasan, Usman Qadir, Bhilawal Bhatti, Akbar-ur-Rehman, Sharjeel Khan, Jalat Khan

Individual evidence

• Cricket Officially added for Asia 2010