Asian Games 2023 Cricket: Men’s team bags historic Gold after final against Afghanistan called off due to rain
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India men’s cricket team claimed Gold in the Asian Games 2023 after its final match against Afghanistan was called off due to rain. Rain halted the game when Afghanistan were batting at 112 for five while batting first and so India were declared the winner due to their higher seeding in the ICC T20I rankings.
Playing on its last day in the 19th Asiad, the Indian contingent crossed the historic 100-medal mark on Saturday, October 7. India’s Gold medals tally reached 28 and both men’s and women’s cricket teams contributed to it with impressive performance on their debut.
India defeated Nepal and Bangladesh on their road to the men’s cricket final while Afghanistan stunned higher-ranked Pakistan in the semifinal. Afghanistan were impressive against Pakistan with a dominant four-wicket win and confirmed the first-ever Silver for the country in the Hangzhou Games 2022.
Afghanistan Playing XI: Zubaid Akbari, Mohammad Shahzad (wk), Noor Ali Zadran, Shahidullah Kamal, Afsar Zazai, Karim Janat, Gulbadin Naib (c), Sharafuddin Ashraf, Qais Ahmad, Fareed Ahmad Malik, Zahir Khan
India Playing XI: Yashasvi Jaiswal, Ruturaj Gaikwad (c), Tilak Varma, Washington Sundar, Shivam Dube, Rinku Singh, Jitesh Sharma (wk), Shahbaz Ahmed, Ravi Bishnoi, Ravisrinivasan Sai Kishore, Arshdeep Singh
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