Asian Games 2026 men’s cricket quarter-final schedule, venues and squads

The men’s cricket competition at the Asian Games 2026 has reached the knockout stage, with the quarter-finals scheduled for September 28 and 29 at Korogi Sports Park in Nisshin as part of the Asian Games 2026. Winners from the four quarter-finals will advance to the semi-finals on October 1.

Group-stage matches produced competitive results as teams battled for berths in the last eight, and with the competition entering the knockout phase there is little margin for error. India, Pakistan, Sri Lanka and Bangladesh received direct entry into the quarter-finals based on their rankings, while other nations progressed through the group stage.

The first two quarter-finals are set for Monday, September 28: Pakistan will face Hong Kong, China at 5:30 AM IST, followed by India against Afghanistan at 10 AM IST. Both fixtures are part of the opening day of the knockout rounds.

The remaining quarter-finals take place on Tuesday, September 29, with Sri Lanka meeting Nepal at 5:30 AM IST and Bangladesh playing Malaysia at 10:00 AM IST. The four matches will decide the sides that contest the October 1 semi-finals.

India: Shreyas Iyer (C), Abhishek Sharma, Sanju Samson, Ishan Kishan, Shivam Dube, Tilak Varma, Vipraj Nigam, Axar Patel, Washington Sundar, Ravi Bishnoi, Jasprit Bumrah, Harshit Rana, Arshdeep Singh, Vaibhav Sooryavanshi.

Afghanistan – Darwish Rasooli (C), Abdullah Ahmadzai, Mohammad Akram, Ismat Alam, Faridoon Dawoodzai, Hassan Eisakhil, Mohammad Ishaq, Karim Janat, Faisal Khan, Nangyal Kharoti, Imran Mir, Arab Gul Momand, Farmanullah Safi, Khalid Taniwal, Najibullah Zadran.

Pakistan: Sahibzada Farhan (C), Abdul Samad, Abrar Ahmed, Ahmed Daniyal, Akif Javed, Ali Raza, Arafat Minhas, Haider Ali, Hasan Nawaz, Maaz Sadaqat, Mohammad Salman Mirza, Saad Masood, Saim Ayub, Sufyan Moqim, Usman Khan.

Hong Kong: Babar Hayat, Anas Khan, Shiv Mathur, Hafeez Khan, Nizakhat Khan, Yasim Murtuza, Rajab Hussain, Nasrulla Rana, Shahid Wasif, Anshuman Rath, Ayush Shukla, Ehsan Khan, Hassan Khan Mohammad, Mohammad Ghazanfar, Mohammad Waheed.

Sri Lanka: Sahan Arachchige (C), Ashen Bandara, Lasith Croospulle, Sohan de Livera, Niroshan Dickwella, Binura Fernando, Nuwanidu Fernando, Tharindu Ratnayake, Dushan Hemantha, Sineth Jayawardena, Chamika Karunaratne, Garuka Sanketh, Wanuja Sahan, Nuwan Thushara, Vijayakanth Viyaskanth.

Nepal: Dipendra Singh Airee (C), Rohit Kumar Paudel, Sompal Kami, Karan KC, Sandeep Lamichhane, Aarif Sheikh, Aasif Sheikh, Kushal Bhurtel, Lalit Rajbanshi, Gulsan Kumar Jha, Nandan Yadav, Lokesh Bam, Sundeep Jora, Sher Malla, Kushal Malla.

Bangladesh: Litton Das (C), Tanzid Hasan, Parvez Hossain Emon, Mohammed Saif Hasan, Najmul Hossain Shanto, Tawhid Hridoy, Musaddek Hossain Saikat, Yasir Ali Chowdhury, Rishad Hossain, Shak Mahedi Hasan, Nasum Ahmed, Shoriful Islam, Mustafizur Rahman, Hasan Mahmud, Aliss Al Islam.

Malaysia: Muhammad Amir Azim, Sharvin Muniandy, Aslam Khan Malik, Rahim Khan, Syed Aziz Mubarak, Muhammad Syahadat, Muhammad Akram, Amir Khan Malik, Muhammad Haziq Aiman, Ainool Hafiz, Virandeep Singh, Pawandeep Singh, Azri Azhar, and Muhammad Wafiq.

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