Men's cricket has started relatively late compared to other events at the Asian Games. This is the first time that the Indian cricket team participated in the Asian Games. The women's cricket team won the gold and this time the men's team are looking good. In the race to win that gold, India win their first match.

Indian captain Rituraj Gaikwad won the toss and decided to bat first. Although Gaikwad (25), Tilak Varma (2), and Jitesh Sharma (5) failed with the bat, opener Yashasvi Jaiswal continued scoring runs at one end. Shivam Dube gave him worthy company. Jaiswal played a destructive innings of 100 runs hitting 8 fours and 7 sixes in the 20-over match.

He became the youngest Indian to score an international century against Nepal. So far Shubman Gill held the record for the fastest century as a young cricketer in T20 cricket. Jaiswal broke it. He was 21 years old when he scored the century.

After Jaiswal’s dismissal, Rinku Singh played an unbeaten innings of 37 runs with the help of two boundaries and four over boundaries off 15 balls. At the end of the scheduled 20 overs, India collected 202 runs for 4 wickets.

India advanced to the semi-finals with a 23-run win in the quarter-finals. Bangladesh will face Malaysia in the fourth quarter-final tomorrow (Wednesday). The winner of that match will face India. That is, Bangladesh and India may face each other on October 6.