{"id":790666,"date":"2026-10-03T12:44:13","date_gmt":"2026-10-03T12:44:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/790666\/"},"modified":"2026-10-03T12:44:13","modified_gmt":"2026-10-03T12:44:13","slug":"asian-games-2026-india-beat-rivals-pakistan-to-win-mens-cricket-gold","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/790666\/","title":{"rendered":"Asian Games 2026: India beat rivals Pakistan to win men’s cricket gold"},"content":{"rendered":"

Asian Games final, Nagoya, Japan<\/p>\n

India 211-6 (20 overs): Abhishek 61 (28), Tilak 51* (22)<\/p>\n

Pakistan 192-6 (20 overs): Nawaz 96 (51); Axar 2-29<\/p>\n

India won by 19 runs<\/p>\n

Scorecard<\/a><\/p>\n

Blistering half-centuries from Abhishek Sharma and Tilak Varma set India on their way to victory as they beat fierce rivals Pakistan by 19 runs to win gold at the Asian Games.<\/p>\n

Having opted to bat first in Nagoya, India racked up a commanding 211-6 with Abhishek smashing seven sixes as he made 61 from 28 balls at the top of the order.<\/p>\n

A stunning start helped the defending champions reach 81-2 at the end of the powerplay as Abhishek dominated the bowling before falling in the eighth over.<\/p>\n

But the runs kept coming and Tilak’s unbeaten 51 from 22, which featured three fours and four sixes, kept the momentum going until the end of innings.<\/p>\n

Pakistan were soon in trouble in the chase, slipping to 39-3 and, despite a superb knock of 96 from Hasan Nawaz, they came up well short.<\/p>\n

Nawaz bludgeoned seven maximums in a defiant innings but was left playing a lone hand and fell to the last ball of the match as Pakistan finished on 192-6.<\/p>\n

The wickets were shared among the India bowlers with spinners Axar Patel and Washington Sundar both taking 2-29, while all-rounder Shivam Dube took 2-33.<\/p>\n

After coming out on top four years ago in Hangzhou, China in their debut in the men’s competition, India have now secured back-to-back golds.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Asian Games final, Nagoya, Japan India 211-6 (20 overs): Abhishek 61 (28), Tilak 51* (22) Pakistan 192-6 (20…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":790667,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34],"tags":[1721,101,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-790666","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-cricket","tag-cricket","tag-sports","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/790666","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=790666"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/790666\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/790667"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=790666"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=790666"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=790666"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}