With India and Pakistan already through to the semi-finals on the back of Monday's washouts, the Asian Games men's cricket quarter-finals wrap up on September 29 with two matches at Kōrogi Sports Park, Nisshin that will decide who those two sides face on October 1: Nepal vs Sri Lanka and Bangladesh vs Malaysia.
The semi-final draw is already fixed around the two results still to come. The winner of Nepal vs Sri Lanka faces India in the second semi-final, while the winner of Bangladesh vs Malaysia faces Pakistan in the first. Both semi-finals are scheduled for Thursday, October 1, with the bronze-medal match and the gold-medal final following on October 3.
Sri Lanka arrive at the Asian Games well below full strength, having sent a second-string squad while their first-choice players featured in a white-ball tour of England — a series Sri Lanka lost 3-0 without reaching 150 in any innings. That form slump follows a T20 World Cup exit built on four straight losses, including one to Zimbabwe, and Sri Lanka's last win in the format before the Asian Games came back in June. Nepal, by contrast, are at full strength and already have tournament experience on this ground, having topped Group A after beating Afghanistan by five wickets and picking up a further point from a washout against Japan.
Nisshin's weather pattern has been the story of the knockout rounds regardless of which teams are involved — three of the previous four matches at Kōrogi Sports Park produced no result without a toss taking place, and a fourth was abandoned mid-innings. If Tuesday's Nepal-Sri Lanka match goes the same way, the tournament's ranking-based tiebreaker would send Sri Lanka through as the higher-ranked side, the same rule that already advanced India and Pakistan a day earlier.
In the other quarter-final, Bangladesh captain Litton Das has been explicit about his side's ambitions, saying the squad's target is to reach the final rather than simply advance a round at a time. Bangladesh have had their own preparation disrupted by the rain at Nisshin, with limited practice time before facing a Malaysia side that reached the knockout stage as one of the tournament's less-fancied qualifiers. A straightforward win here would be Bangladesh's least dramatic route through the bracket compared to the washouts that have decided three of the other four quarter-finals.
Neither India nor Pakistan has played a ball yet in this tournament's knockout stage, having advanced purely on seeding after Monday's washouts — a outcome India's squad had said all week they didn't want. Whoever emerges from Tuesday's two matches will be the first genuine opposition either side faces in the knockouts, and the contrast in readiness could matter: Nepal and Bangladesh both arrive full-strength and battle-tested from the group stage, while Sri Lanka and Malaysia are the less-fancied names in their respective ties.
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The semi-final bracket, squad strength and weather pattern are verified against same-day and freshly re-checked reporting, current as of September 29, 2026.
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