Cricket was one of the 37 sports that was played at the 2022 Asian Games in Hangzhou, China. Both men's and women's Twenty20 International tournaments were played from 19 September to 7 October 2023. Prior to this edition, cricket was last played at the Asian Games in 2014. The Asian Games were originally planned to take place in September 2022, but were later postponed by one year because of the COVID-19 pandemic. Fourteen men's teams and nine women's teams took part. The teams were seeded based on the ICC T20I Rankings as of 1 June 2023.
Schedule
| P | Preliminary round | ¼ | Quarterfinals | ½ | Semifinals | F | Finals |
| Event↓/Date → | 19th Tue | 20th Wed | 21st Thu | 22nd Fri | 23rd Sat | 24th Sun | 25th Mon | 26th Tue | 27th Wed | 28th Thu | 29th Fri | 30th Sat | 1st Sun | 2nd Mon | 3rd Tue | 4th Wed | 5th Thu | 6th Fri | 7 Sat |
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| Men | P | P | P | P | P | ¼ | ¼ | ½ | F | ||||||||||
| Women | P | P | ¼ | ¼ | ½ | F |
Medalists
| Event | Gold | Silver | Bronze |
|---|---|---|---|
| Men | India Arshdeep Singh Washington Sundar Jitesh Sharma Shivam Dube Ruturaj Gaikwad Rinku Singh Shahbaz Ahmed Mukesh Kumar Rahul Tripathi Ravi Bishnoi Sai Kishore Yashasvi Jaiswal Avesh Khan Tilak Varma Prabhsimran Singh | Afghanistan Nijat Masood Karim Janat Gulbadin Naib Noor Ali Zadran Sharafuddin Ashraf Shahidullah Sediqullah Atal Qais Ahmad Afsar Zazai Sayed Shirzad Fareed Ahmad Zubaid Akbari Wafiullah Tarakhil Zahir Khan Mohammad Shahzad | Bangladesh Mrittunjoy Chowdhury Sumon Khan Nahid Rana Parvez Hossain Emon Ripon Mondol Zakir Hasan Saif Hassan Jaker Ali Afif Hossain Yasir Ali Rishad Hossain Mahmudul Hasan Joy Shahadat Hossain Hasan Murad Rakibul Hasan |
| Women | India Rajeshwari Gayakwad Jemimah Rodrigues Deepti Sharma Harmanpreet Kaur Richa Ghosh Titas Sadhu Shafali Verma Smriti Mandhana Amanjot Kaur Pooja Vastrakar Uma Chetry Minnu Mani Kanika Ahuja Anusha Bareddy Devika Vaidya | Sri Lanka Kavisha Dilhari Imesha Dulani Anushka Sanjeewani Inoka Ranaweera Achini Kulasuriya Nilakshi de Silva Kaushini Nuthyangana Inoshi Priyadharshani Udeshika Prabodhani Chamari Athapaththu Vishmi Gunaratne Hasini Perera Oshadi Ranasinghe Harshitha Samarawickrama Sugandika Kumari | Bangladesh Nigar Sultana Rabeya Khan Sobhana Mostary Fahima Khatun Shorna Akter Lata Mondal Disha Biswas Sultana Khatun Nahida Akter Shathi Rani Sanjida Akter Meghla Shamima Sultana Ritu Moni Marufa Akter Fargana Hoque |
Medal table
| Rank | Nation | Gold | Silver | Bronze | Total |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | India (IND) | 2 | 0 | 0 | 2 |
| 2 | Afghanistan (AFG) | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| Sri Lanka (SRI) | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | |
| 4 | Bangladesh (BAN) | 0 | 0 | 2 | 2 |
| Totals (4 entries) | 2 | 2 | 2 | 6 | |
Draw
The teams were seeded based on the ICC T20I Rankings as of 1 June 2023.
Men
Originally, 15 teams registered for the men's tournament with the top 4 seeds directly advancing to the quarterfinals, but Bahrain's withdrawal changed the format. The fifth seed Afghanistan also joined the top 4 in the quarterfinal while the remaining 9 teams entered the preliminary round.
| Rank | Seed | Team | Round |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 1 | India | Quarterfinals – Seeded |
| 4 | 2 | Pakistan | |
| 8 | 3 | Sri Lanka | |
| 9 | 4 | Bangladesh | |
| 10 | 5 | Afghanistan | Quarterfinals – Unseeded |
| 17 | 6 | Nepal | Preliminary round |
| 18 | 7 | Hong Kong | |
| 25 | 8 | Malaysia | |
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| 36 | 9 | Singapore | |
| 60 | 10 | Japan | |
| 78 | 11 | Maldives | |
| — | — | Mongolia | |
| — | — | Cambodia | |
| — | — | Thailand |
Women
The five seeded teams (the top five teams in the ICC T20 rank) directly entered the quarterfinal while the remaining 4 teams competed in round 1.
| Rank | Seed | Team | Round |
|---|---|---|---|
| 4 | 1 | India | Quarterfinals – Seeded |
| 7 | 2 | Pakistan | |
| 8 | 3 | Sri Lanka | |
| 9 | 4 | Bangladesh | |
| 11 | 5 | Thailand | Quarterfinals – Unseeded |
| 21 | 6 | Indonesia | Preliminary round |
| 22 | 7 | Hong Kong | |
| 27 | 8 | Malaysia | |
| — | — | Mongolia |
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Final standing
Men
| Rank | Team | Pld | W | L | T | NR |
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| India | 3 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 1 | |
| Afghanistan | 3 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 1 | |
| Bangladesh | 3 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 0 | |
| 4 | Pakistan | 3 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 0 |
| 5 | Hong Kong | 3 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 0 |
| 5 | Malaysia | 3 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 0 |
| 5 | Nepal | 3 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 0 |
| 5 | Sri Lanka | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 |
| 9 | Japan | 2 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 |
| 9 | Maldives | 2 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 |
| 9 | Singapore | 2 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 |
| 12 | Cambodia | 2 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 |
| 12 | Mongolia | 2 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 |
| 12 | Thailand | 2 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 |
Women
| Rank | Team | Pld | W | L | T | NR |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| India | 3 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 1 | |
| Sri Lanka | 3 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 0 | |
| Bangladesh | 3 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 1 | |
| 4 | Pakistan | 3 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 1 |
| 5 | Hong Kong | 3 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 5 | Indonesia | 2 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| 5 | Malaysia | 2 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| 5 | Thailand | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 |
| 9 | Mongolia | 2 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 |
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