{"id":196405,"date":"2026-07-24T05:28:34","date_gmt":"2026-07-24T10:58:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/newslink360.space\/?p=196405"},"modified":"2026-07-24T05:28:34","modified_gmt":"2026-07-24T10:58:34","slug":"india-vs-pakistan-at-asian-games-2026-heres-the-only-way-the-rivals-can-meet","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newslink360.space\/?p=196405","title":{"rendered":"India vs Pakistan at Asian Games 2026? Here’s the only way the rivals can meet"},"content":{"rendered":"


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India and Pakistan could be on course for another high-profile T20 clash at the 2026 Asian Games.<\/p>\n

The cricket schedule for the Aichi-Nagoya Asian Games has been released, revealing that the arch-rivals can meet only once in the men\u2019s competition.<\/p>\n

Cricket returns to the Asian Games for the fourth time after Guangzhou 2010, Incheon 2014 and Hangzhou 2023, but this will be just the second time India is taking part.<\/p>\n

Both the men\u2019s and women\u2019s tournaments will be played in the T20 format with full international status. The women\u2019s competition is scheduled from September 17 to 22, while the men\u2019s tournament will run from September 24 to October 1 at Korogi Athletic Park in Aichi Prefecture, Japan.<\/p>\n

Why India and Pakistan cannot meet earlier?<\/b><\/p>\n

As defending champion India, along with Pakistan, Sri Lanka and Bangladesh, has been seeded directly into the men\u2019s quarterfinals.<\/p>\n

The remaining four quarterfinal spots will be decided through a preliminary stage featuring six teams split into two groups.<\/p>\n

Group A: Afghanistan, Japan, Nepal<\/b><\/p>\n

Group B: Hong Kong China, Malaysia, Oman<\/b><\/p>\n

The top two teams from each group will qualify for the quarterfinals, where they will join the four seeded nations.<\/p>\n

Since India and Pakistan have been placed on opposite sides of the knockout bracket, they cannot face each other before the semifinals. If one team is eliminated before then, the much-anticipated contest will not take place.<\/p>\n

India\u2019s men\u2019s squad<\/b><\/p>\n

Shreyas Iyer, Tilak Varma, Ravi Bishnoi, Abhishek Sharma, Nitish Kumar Reddy, Jasprit Bumrah, Sanju Samson, Axar Patel, Harshit Rana, Ishan Kishan, Washington Sundar, Arshdeep Singh, Shivam Dube, Varun Chakravarthy and Vaibhav Sooryavanshi.<\/p>\n

Women\u2019s team begins title defence against Japan<\/b><\/p>\n

India, the defending women\u2019s champion, has also received a direct entry into the quarterfinals and will begin its campaign against host Japan.<\/p>\n

If Harmanpreet Kaur\u2019s side overcomes Japan, it will face either Bangladesh or China in the semifinals. The other quarterfinal matches pit Sri Lanka against Malaysia and Pakistan against Thailand.<\/p>\n

India\u2019s women\u2019s squad<\/b><\/p>\n

Harmanpreet Kaur (captain), Smriti Mandhana (vice-captain), Shafali Verma, Jemimah Rodrigues, Deepti Sharma, Richa Ghosh (wk), G. Kamalini (wk), Bharti Fulmali, Sree Charani, Renuka Thakur, Kranti Gaud, Arundhati Reddy, Shreyanka Patil, Radha Yadav and Nandni Sharma.<\/p>\n

Published on Jul 24, 2026<\/p>\n<\/div>\n


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India and Pakistan could be on course for another high-profile T20 clash at the 2026 Asian Games. The cricket schedule for the Aichi-Nagoya Asian Games has been released, revealing that the arch-rivals can meet only once in the men\u2019s competition. Cricket returns to the Asian Games for the fourth time after Guangzhou 2010, Incheon 2014…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":196406,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-196405","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-sports"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/newslink360.space\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/VIS_6493.JPG","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":195964,"url":"https:\/\/newslink360.space\/?p=195964","url_meta":{"origin":196405,"position":0},"title":"Asian Games cricket schedule confirmed for Team India \u2014 Full list of fixtures, dates, venue","author":"Ajay Kumar Verma","date":"July 23, 2026","format":false,"excerpt":"The schedule for the men\u2019s and women\u2019s cricket tournaments at the Asian Games 2026 in Aichi-Nagoya was announced on Thursday. 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