Pakistan reach Asian Games cricket final after six-wicket win over Bangladesh

Pakistan are through to the Asian Games men’s cricket gold-medal match after beating Bangladesh by six wickets in the first semi-final on Thursday, 1 October. The contest was shortened to 13 overs per side. Bangladesh made 111/7, and Pakistan reached 112/4 in 11.3 overs at Nisshin, Japan.

The match in brief

Abdul Samad finished unbeaten on 30 in Pakistan’s chase. Bangladesh’s Towhid Hridoy made 42, while Sufyan Moqim took three wickets for 26 runs for Pakistan. The competition results and an independently maintained completed scorecard agree on those match-specific numbers; they are not career averages or figures from 4xSports’ player database.

Pakistan’s target was 112, and the winning run came with nine legal balls remaining in the shortened contest. The six-wicket margin refers to the four wickets Pakistan lost, not to the time remaining. This was a semi-final result, not a gold-medal result; the title will be decided in the next match.

India await in the final

The updated competition schedule lists Pakistan against India in the men’s gold-medal match on Saturday, 3 October. Bangladesh are listed to play Sri Lanka in the bronze-medal match. No playing XI, start time, pitch assessment or player-availability claim is made here; those would require a separate fresh check.

More tournament context

4xSports’ Asian Games cricket guideImage: Original 4xSports editorial illustration, not a photograph of this match.