Asian Games 2023 Cricket: Schedule, Teams, Groups & How To Watch

Asian Games Men's T20I 2023: The Asian Games men’s T20 tournament will be played from September 27 to October 7.

Cricket is part of the ongoing Asian Games 2023 which is being held in Hangzhou, the People’s Republic of China, from September 23 to October 8.

14 teams will participate in the men's cricket tournament at the Hangzhou Asian Games 2023. The bronze and gold medal matches will be played on October 7.

The five top-seeded teams which are India, Pakistan, Sri Lanka, Bangladesh and Afghanistan will directly start their campaigns from the quarter-finals while the remaining nine teams will compete in a group stage format, where they have been divided into three groups of three teams each.

The three group winners will then join India, Pakistan, Sri Lanka, Bangladesh and Afghanistan in the top eight stage.

All the cricket matches of the Asian Games 2023 will be played at the Pingfeng Campus Cricket Field venue in Hangzhou.

Here are the 14 teams participating in the Cricket tournament at Asian Games 2023.

• India

• Pakistan

• Sri Lanka

• Bangladesh

• Afghanistan

• Mongolia

• Maldives

• Nepal

• Malaysia

• Singapore

• Thailand

• Cambodia

• Hong Kong

• Japan

Group A: Mongolia, Maldives, Nepal
Group B: Cambodia, Hong Kong China, Japan
Group C: Malaysia, Singapore, Thailand

Direct entry: India, Pakistan, Sri Lanka, Bangladesh, Afghanistan

Here is the full list the cricket fixtures for Asian Games 2023.

Indian cricket team led by Ruturaj Gaikwad will play their first match of the tournament on Tuesday, October 3. This will also be the first quater-final of the Cricket edition of the Asian Games 2023.

Asian Games 2023 cricket matches will be telecast live on the Sony Sports Network TV channels in India.

Live streaming of the Asian Games 2023 cricket matches will be available on Sony Liv app and website.

Ruturaj Gaikwad (c), Mukesh Kumar, Shivam Mavi, Shivam Dube, Prabhsimran Singh (wk), Yashasvi Jaiswal, Rahul Tripathi, Tilak Varma, Rinku Singh, Jitesh Sharma (wk), Washington Sundar, Shahbaz Ahmed, Ravi Bishnoi, Avesh Khan, Arshdeep Singh.

Qasim Akram (c), Omair Bin Yousuf, Haider Ali, Asif Ali, Arafat Minhas, Tahir Baig, Khushdil Shah, Sufyan Moqim, Aamer Jamal (wk), Rohail Nazir (wk), Muhammad Akhlaq (wk), Shahnawaz Dahani, Usman Qadir, Arshad Iqbal, Mohammad Hasnain

Saif Hassan (c), Tanzim Hasan Shakib, Yasir Ali, Jaker Ali Anik, Zakir Hasan, Mosaddek Hossain, Parvez Hossain Emon (wk), Rakibul Hasan, Tanvir Islam, Ripon Mondol, Shahadat Hossain, Mahmudul Hasan Joy, Mrittonjoy Chowdhury, Suman Khan, Rishad Hossain

Sahan Arachchige (c), Lasith Croospulle, Nuwanidu Fernando, Shavon Daniel, Ahan Wickramasinghe, Ashen Bandara, Ravindu Fernando, Isitha Wijesundera, Sachitha Jayathilake, Lahiru Samarakoon (wk), Lahiru Udara (wk), Nimesh Vimukthi, Ranitha Liyanarachchi, Vijayakanth Viyaskanth, Nuwan Thushara.

Gulbadin Naib (c), Mohammad Shahzad (wk), Sediqullah Atal, Zubdaid Akbari, Noor Ali Zadran, Shahidullah Kamal, Afsar Zazai, Wafiullah Tarakhil, Karim Jannat, Sharafuddin Ashraf, Fareed Ahmad Malik, Nijat Masoud, Sayed Ahmad Shirzad, Qais Ahmad and Zahir Khan.

Rohit Kumar Paudel (c), Sundeep Jora, Kushal Bhurtel, Pratis GC, Bibek Yadav, Dipendra Singh Airee, Kushal Malla (wk), Asif Sheikh (wk), Binod Bhandari (wk), Karan KC, Gulshan Kumar Jha, Lalit Rajbanshi, Sompal Kami, Sandeep Lamichhane, Abhinash Bohara

Luqman Butt (c), Lakshit Gupta, Phon Bunthean, Etienne Beukes, Anish Rambabu, Te Senglong, Uday Singh, Ram Raushan Sharan, Salvin Stanley (wk), Sahaj Chadha (wk), Sharwan Godara, Utkarsh Jain, Pel Vannak, Gulam Murtaza Chughtai, Chanthoeun Rathanak

Babar Hayat, Muhammad Khan, Hamed Khan, Shiv Mathur, Nizakat Khan, Akbar Khan, Anas Khan, Niaz Ali, Ehsan Khan (wk), Shahid Wasif (wk), Nasrulla Rana, Mohammad Ghazanfar, Ayush Shukla, Mohammad Hassan Khan, Adil Mehmood

Reo Sakurano, Ibrahim Takahashi, Tsuyoshi Takada, Lachlan Lake, Kendel Kadowaki Fleming, Makoto Taniyama, Sabaorish Ravichandran, Declan Suzuki (wk), Supun Navaratne (wk), Alex Patmore (wk), Wataru Miyauchi (wk), Muneeb Siddique, Kohei Kubota, Ryan Drake, Piyush Kumbhare

Ainool Hafizs, Ahmad Faiz, Zubaidi Zulkifle, Muhammad Amir Azim, Ariff Jamaluddin, Virandeep Singh, Rizwan Haider, Syed Aziz, Muhammad Aiman Zaquan, Nazmus Sakib, Khizar Hayat, Conor Smith, Sharvin Muniandy, Fitri Sham, Syazrul Idrus (wk), Wan Muhammad (wk), Sharveen Surendran, Vijay Unni, Ahmad Akmal Alif Bin-Zainal, Akram Malek, Haiqal Khair, Anwar Rahman, Pavandeep Singh, Haziq Haiqal-Bin-Idris.

Ismail Nazuwan, Mohamed Miuvan, Mohamed Sulaiman, Muawiyath Ghanee, Azin Rafeeq, Fareed Shius, H Sadhin, Ibrahim Nashath, N Naseer, Hassan Rasheed (wk), A Mouroof, Ibrahim Ali, Rasheed Rassam, Rayan Tholal, Shunan Ali.

E Buyantuguldur, M Altankhuyag, N Naranbaatar, T Sumiya, A Gan-Erdene, B Batikhuyag, B Namsrai, B Terbish, T Turmursukh, E Otgonbayar (wk), E Munkhbat (wk), O Lutbayar (wk), B Batsukh, L Erdenebulgan, R Batmunk.

Aritra Dutta (c), Aman Desai, Sidhant Srikanth, Avi Dixit, Abdul Rahman Bhadelia, Surendran Chandramohan, Aaryan Modi, Rezza Gaznavi, Prasheen Param, Anish Paraam, Amartya Kaul, Utsav Rakshit, Manpreet Singh, Vinoth Baskaran, Raoul Sharma, Aahan Gopinath Achar, Navin Param, Vinit Mehta, Aditya Bhargava, Anantha Krishna, Venkatesan Thiyanesh, Mahiyu Bhatia, Akshay Roopak Puri (wk), Rohan Rangarajan, Thilipan Omaidurai, Kalimuthu Ramesh, Amjad Mahboob.

Akshay Yadav (c & wk), Phiriyapong Suanchuai, Sorawat Desungnoen, Chanchai Pengkumta, Kiatiwut Suttisan, Robert Raina, Daniel Jacobs, Sittipong Hongsi, Narawit Nuntarach, Jandre Coetzee, Khanitson Namchaikul, Vishwanath Singh, Mahsid Faheem, Nopphon Senamontree, Kamron Senamontree, Naveed Pathan, Yodsak Saranonnakkun, Chaloemwong Chatphaisan, Satarut Rungrueang, Sarawut Maliwan (wk)