{"id":877362,"date":"2026-09-02T11:28:21","date_gmt":"2026-09-02T11:28:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/877362\/"},"modified":"2026-09-02T11:28:21","modified_gmt":"2026-09-02T11:28:21","slug":"cricketers-to-get-best-rooms-at-asian-games-2026-says-japanese-official-cricket","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/877362\/","title":{"rendered":"Cricketers to get best rooms at Asian Games 2026, says Japanese official | Cricket"},"content":{"rendered":"

Cricket is a minor sport in Japan, but it will provide the best accommodation to the participating teams, the official says.<\/p>\n

Published On 2 Sep 20262 Sep 2026<\/p>\n

Cricketers at this month\u2019s Asian Games in Japan will have better accommodation than athletes from many other sports, the head of Japanese cricket has said amid growing concerns about a lack of five-star hotels for players.<\/p>\n

A Sri Lankan official said this week that some of Asia\u2019s top teams had raised doubts over facilities and accommodation at the games, taking place in Nagoya and the wider Aichi area from September 19.<\/p>\n

Cricket is a minor sport in Japan, and its fixtures will be played at a new purpose-built ground, with reports of tents serving as dressing rooms and distant toilet facilities.<\/p>\n

There is no dedicated athletes\u2019 village at the games, with organisers instead relying on cabins in a cruise ship, rooms in temporary wooden containers and hotels.<\/p>\n

Organisers said last week that accommodation was already stretched to the limit after the number of Asian Games athletes ballooned to 17,000.<\/p>\n

The number of athletes in the 2024 Paris Olympics was about 11,000.<\/p>\n

\"FILEThe 20th Asian Games will run from September 19 to October 4 in Nagoya, central Japan [File: Issei Kato\/Reuters]<\/p>\n

The cricket tournament is being run by the Asian Games organising committee in collaboration with the Asian Cricket Council (ACC).<\/p>\n

Japan Cricket Association CEO Naoki Alex Miyaji said the two bodies had been discussing accommodation options \u201cfor a long time\u201d.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe participating teams in cricket are being offered hotel accommodation,\u201d Miyaji said on Wednesday.<\/p>\n

\u201cMany other sports are being accommodated in much more limited facilities, such as a cruise ship or container hotels.\u201d<\/p>\n

Matches will be played at Korogi Sports Park, a converted baseball field that is a 40-minute train ride from central Nagoya.<\/p>\n

Media reports in India said the country\u2019s cricket board was unhappy with arrangements and might send a second-string squad after originally naming 15 players led by Shreyas Iyer and including 15-year-old rising star Vaibhav Sooryavanshi.<\/p>\n

Miyaji said the organisers \u201conly had 17 months to prepare and had to start from scratch\u201d for cricket at the games.<\/p>\n

He said they had been working \u201cto ensure that the best facilities are provided within the limited timeline and facility restrictions\u201d.<\/p>\n

\u201cDespite being temporary, the facilities will provide as comfortable a space as possible for the players and officials,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

Miyaji said the pitch, which is being prepared by the curator of the 35,000-capacity Pallekele International Cricket Stadium in Sri Lanka, would be of a high standard.<\/p>\n

\u201cFrom what I have seen, the playing surface and field will be the best seen in cricket\u2019s inclusion in the Asian Games,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Cricket is a minor sport in Japan, but it will provide the best accommodation to the participating teams,…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":877363,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[564],"tags":[77,5654,64,63,740,941,588,85],"class_list":["post-877362","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-cricket","tag-asia-pacific","tag-athletics","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-cricket","tag-japan","tag-sport","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/877362","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=877362"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/877362\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/877363"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=877362"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=877362"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=877362"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}