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.
| Cricket at the 2010 Asian Games | |
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| Venues | Guanggong International Cricket Stadium |
| Dates | 13–26 November 2010 |
| Competitors | 246 from 11 nations |
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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 men's 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 women's Full Member Pakistan. India and Sri Lanka did not participate. Pakistan won the gold medal in the women's event, while Bangladesh gained a silver. Japan defeated China in the bronze medal match.
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 | 23rd Tue | 24th Wed | 25th Thu | 26th Fri | ||
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| Men | P | P | ¼ | P | ¼ | ¼ | ½ | F | ||||||||
| Women | P | P | P | P | P | ½ | F | |||||||||
Medalists
| Event | Gold | Silver | Bronze |
|---|---|---|---|
| Men | Bangladesh Mohammad Ashraful Shamsur Rahman Naeem Islam Faisal Hossain Shahadat Hossain Mahbubul Alam Mohammad Nazmul Hossain Mohammed 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 | 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 Yuko Saito 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) | 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
Women
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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 |
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