Tuesday's Nepal vs Sri Lanka and Bangladesh vs Malaysia quarter-finals ended exactly as the other two had a day earlier — abandoned by rain at Kōrogi Sports Park, Nisshin, without a toss taking place. The result is now official: all four men's quarter-finals at this year's Asian Games were washed out, and the semi-final bracket is confirmed by seeding alone. India will face Sri Lanka, and Pakistan will face Bangladesh, both semi-finals on October 1 at the same ground.
Sri Lanka progressed over Nepal by virtue of their higher position in the ICC's T20I team rankings — ninth compared to Nepal's 14th — the same seeding rule that had already sent India and Pakistan through a day earlier. Bangladesh advanced past Malaysia the same way, setting up a semi-final against Pakistan rather than the final their captain, Litton Das, had said all week was the squad's real target.
India play Sri Lanka in the second semi-final at Nisshin, with a 10:30 AM IST start; Pakistan and Bangladesh play the first. Neither India nor Sri Lanka has bowled a competitive ball in the knockout stage yet, having both progressed on seeding, so October 1 will be the first genuine contest either side faces since the group stage. The bronze-medal match and gold-medal final follow on October 3.
India go into the match with Shreyas Iyer as captain, leading a squad of Abhishek Sharma, Sanju Samson, Ishan Kishan, Shivam Dube, Tilak Varma, Vipraj Nigam, Axar Patel, Washington Sundar, Ravi Bishnoi, Jasprit Bumrah, Harshit Rana, Arshdeep Singh and uncapped teenager Vaibhav Sooryavanshi. Whether Bumrah and Sooryavanshi feature in the XI remains the most-watched selection call after a fortnight in which India haven't had to make one under match pressure.
Sri Lanka's squad — Sahan Arachchige (captain), Ashen Bandara, Lasith Croospulle, Sohan de Livera, Niroshan Dickwella, Binura Fernando, Nuwanidu Fernando, Tharindu Ratnayake, Dushan Hemantha, Sineth Jayawardena, Chamika Karunaratne, Garuka Sanketh, Wanuja Sahan, Nuwan Thushara and Vijayakanth Viyaskanth — is the same second-string group that lost 3-0 in England without reaching 150 in any innings while Sri Lanka's first-choice players were on tour elsewhere. That form gap, untested by an actual quarter-final, is now the biggest unknown heading into a semi-final against India's full-strength squad.
Bangladesh's build-up to the Pakistan semi-final has taken a hit independent of the weather: Najmul Hossain Shanto has been ruled out of the rest of the tournament and is returning home after a fever, present since his arrival in Nagoya, was confirmed alongside other infection markers on a blood test, while tests for influenza and COVID-19 came back negative. Shanto had only recently returned to Bangladesh's T20I squad after more than a year out of the format, and his absence removes an experienced top-order option from a Bangladesh side already facing a Pakistan team that has had a full week of practice in spin-friendly conditions.
Four quarter-finals, four washouts, zero balls bowled — Nisshin's rain has now decided the entire last-eight round of the men's competition purely on rankings, a run genuinely unusual for a straight-knockout event and one that puts pressure on organisers heading into the business end of the tournament. For India, Pakistan, Sri Lanka and Bangladesh alike, October 1 will be the first time seeding stops mattering and results start deciding who reaches the final.
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The washout results, semi-final bracket, squad lists and Shanto's illness are verified against same-day and freshly re-checked reporting, current as of September 29, 2026.
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