# Cricket at the 2010 Asian Games

Cricket made its debut at the 16th Asian Games 2010 at Guanggong International Cricket Stadium, Guangzhou, China where it was one of 42 sports competed in. The matches were played in Twenty20 format.
Both men's and women's tournaments were conducted. In the men's event, host nation China were joined by three of the four ICC Full Members in Asia: Bangladesh, Pakistan and Sri Lanka as well as Afghanistan who played in the 2010 ICC World Twenty20.
Due to other international commitments, Sri Lanka, Bangladesh and Pakistan fielded understrength teams whilst India did not participate. Bangladesh defeated Afghanistan in the final event to win the gold medal while the latter won the silver. The bronze went to Pakistan after they beat Sri Lanka in the third-place match.
In the women's event, China played ICC Women's Cricket Full Member Pakistan. India and Sri Lanka did not participate. Pakistan won its first cricket gold in the women's event while Bangladesh gained a silver. Japan defeated China in the bronze medal match, in what could be a boost for cricket in Japan.

## Schedule

| P | Preliminary round | ¼ | Quarterfinals | ½ | Semifinals | F | Finals |
| Event↓/Date → | 13th Sat | 14th Sun | 15th Mon | 16th Tue | 17th Wed | 18th Thu | 19th Fri | 20th Sat | 21st Sun | 22nd Mon | 22nd Mon | 23rd Tue | 23rd Tue | 24th Wed | 25th Thu | 26th Fri |
| Men | | | | | | | | | P | P | ¼ | P | ¼ | ¼ | ½ | F |
| Women | P | P | P | P | P | ½ | F | | | | | | | | | |

## Medalists

| Event | Gold | Silver | Bronze |
| Men details | Bangladesh Mohammad Ashraful Shamsur Rahman Naeem Islam Faisal Hossain Shahadat Hossain Mahbubul Alam Mohammad Nazmul Hossain Nazimuddin Suhrawadi Shuvo Dolar Mahmud Mohammad Mithun Nasir Hossain Rony Talukdar Shuvagata Hom Sabbir Rahman | Afghanistan Gulbadin Naib Mohammad Shahzad Sami Agha Mohammad Nabi Karim Sadiq Shafiqullah Mirwais Ashraf Shabir Noori Shapoor Zadran Asghar Stanikzai Samiullah Shinwari Nawroz Mangal Hamid Hassan Aftab Alam | Pakistan Khalid Latif Azeem Ghumman Naeemuddin Mohammad Irshad Lal Kumar Sheharyar Ghani Aizaz Cheema Sarmad Bhatti Naeem Anjum Raza Hasan Usman Qadir Bilawal Bhatti Akbar-ur-Rehman Sharjeel Khan Jalat Khan |
| Women details | Pakistan Sana Mir Batool Fatima Nida Dar Nahida Khan Bismah Maroof Nain Abidi Asmavia Iqbal Kainat Imtiaz Marina Iqbal Mariam Hasan Sania Khan Masooma Junaid Sana Gulzar Javeria Khan | Bangladesh Rumana Ahmed Salma Khatun Shohely Akhter Ayesha Akhter Chamely Khatun Tithy Sarkar Panna Ghosh Sultana Yesmin Lata Mondal Tazia Akhter Ayasha Rahman Jahanara Alam Champa Chakma Shathira Jakir Fargana Hoque | Japan Erina Kaneko Yuka Yoshida Shizuka Miyaji Atsuko Suda Yūko Sasaki Ayako Iwasaki Kurumi Ota Ayako Nakayama Mariko Yamamoto Miho Kanno Ema Kuribayashi Shizuka Kubota Fuyuki Kawai Yuko Kuniki Erika Ida |

## Medal table

| Rank | Nation | Gold | Silver | Bronze | Total |
| 1 | Bangladesh (BAN) | 1 | 1 | 0 | 2 |
| 2 | Pakistan (PAK) | 1 | 0 | 1 | 2 |
| 3 | Afghanistan (AFG) | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 4 | Japan (JPN) | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| Totals (4 entries) | Totals (4 entries) | 2 | 2 | 2 | 6 |

## Draw
### Men

The three Test-playing countries and Afghanistan (who played in the 2010 ICC World Twenty20) were seeded and went directly to the knock-out stage.
* Withdrew

#### Quarterfinals

* Sri Lanka vs. 2nd Pool D
* Pakistan vs. 2nd Pool C
* Bangladesh vs. 1st Pool C
* Afghanistan vs. 1st Pool D

### Women
## Final standing
### Men

| Rank | Team | Pld | W | L | T | NR |
| | Bangladesh | 3 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| | Afghanistan | 3 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 0 |
| | Pakistan | 3 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 0 |
| 4 | Sri Lanka | 3 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 0 |
| 5 | China | 2 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 |
| 5 | Hong Kong | 3 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 0 |
| 5 | Malaysia | 2 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 |
| 5 | Nepal | 3 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 0 |
| 9 | Maldives | 2 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 |

### Women

| Rank | Team | Pld | W | L | T | NR |
| | Pakistan | 4 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| | Bangladesh | 4 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 0 |
| | Japan | 5 | 3 | 2 | 0 | 0 |
| 4 | China | 5 | 2 | 3 | 0 | 0 |
| 5 | Nepal | 3 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 0 |
| 5 | Thailand | 3 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 0 |
| 7 | Hong Kong | 2 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 |
| 7 | Malaysia | 2 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 |