While India's women were completing a 147-run rout of Sri Lanka in the Asian Games final on September 22, Pakistan had already sealed the bronze medal earlier the same day, beating Bangladesh by 31 runs in the third-place play-off at Kōrogi Sports Park in Nisshin. It completed a clean sweep of the podium for South Asian teams in the tournament's second edition, and gave Pakistan their first-ever Asian Games cricket medal.
Batting first, Pakistan posted 145 for 8 in their 20 overs, built around a top-order innings of 45 off 30 balls from captain Fatima Sana. It wasn't a dominant total on a ground that would produce a 216-run score from India less than a day later, but it proved enough given how Pakistan's bowlers went about defending it.
Bangladesh's chase never found the rhythm it needed. Off-spinner Umm-e-Hani broke through the top and middle order, finishing with 3 for 10 from her four overs — the best figures of her WT20I career — and Bangladesh could only manage 114 for 7 in their 20 overs. Sharmin Akhter was the one bright spot, carrying her bat for an unbeaten 46 off 45 balls, but she ran out of partners and overs at the other end.
The two sides met in the same bronze-medal position at the previous Games in Hangzhou in 2023, and it was Bangladesh who won that day, leaving Pakistan in fourth place. This time Pakistan reversed the result, avenging that defeat in front of a much smaller crowd than the gold-medal match that followed on the same ground just hours later.
With India's gold and Sri Lanka's silver confirmed in the final that followed, all three medals in the women's competition went to South Asian sides for the second straight edition. Bangladesh and Pakistan had already been eliminated from gold contention by the semi-final stage, so the bracket was always likely to end this way — but the margins across both semi-finals and this play-off suggest the gap between the region's top two or three sides and the rest of the continental field remains wide.
Pakistan and Bangladesh both now shift focus back to bilateral commitments after a tournament that offered a rare multi-team women's event outside the usual calendar. For India, attention turns to the men's competition, which begins in the same city on September 24, with Shreyas Iyer's squad seeded directly into the quarter-finals.
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