Asian Games 2026: India's wait for gold medal in Asian Games 2026 is over. The Indian women's cricket team, captained by Harmanpreet Kaur, won the gold medal by defeating Sri Lanka by a huge margin of 147 runs in the final. With this victory, India won its first gold in the tournament and the total number of medals has increased to 7. India now has 1 gold, 4 silver and 2 bronze in its account. India is ranked 8th in the available medal tally.
This is the women's cricket team's second consecutive gold medal in the Asian Games. Earlier, the Indian women's team had also won gold in the 2023 Hangzhou Asian Games. This time the team successfully defended the title.
Smriti Mandhana and Richa Ghosh created a stir
In the final, after winning the toss and opting to bat first, the Indian team scored a huge score of 216 runs for 3 wickets in 20 overs. Smriti Mandhana batted brilliantly and scored 79 runs in 45 balls. Apart from them, Shafali Verma played a quick inning of 48 runs in 29 balls. Together, both of them gave a great start to India.
Richa Ghosh showed stormy style in the death overs. He scored unbeaten 49 runs in just 22 balls and played an important role in taking India to a huge score of 216 runs. This was also India's record score in Asian Games women's cricket.
Sri Lanka bowed before Indian bowling
Chasing the target of 217 runs, the Sri Lankan team could not last long in front of the Indian bowlers and were all out for 69 runs in 15.4 overs. Captain Chamari Atapattu tried to fight back by scoring 29 runs, but the Indian bowlers kept the pressure on Sri Lanka by taking wickets continuously.
Deepti Sharma was India's most successful bowler. He took 3 wickets giving just 6 runs in 4 overs. After showing wonders with the bat, Shafali Verma also showed her strength with the ball and took 2 wickets. Whereas, Shreyanka Patil and Shri Charani took 2-2 wickets. In this way, India retained the gold by winning the final by 147 runs.
Big change in India's medal tally
Winning the gold medal for India in women's cricket was a major achievement at the Asian Games 2026. India's medal count with this gold 7 Has reached. Earlier, Suchika Tariyal had won the bronze medal in Women's Traditional-60 kg MMA and won India's first medal in this sport in the Asian Games.
Now after the gold medal in women's cricket, India has one gold, four silver and two bronze medals in its account. Indian shooters have also won many medals by performing brilliantly in the preliminary matches.
Asian Games 2026: Top-10 medal table
| rank | Country | 🥇 Gold | 🥈 Silver | 🥉Bronze | Total |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | China | 31 | 13 | 7 | 51 |
| 2 | Japan | 10 | 15 | 17 | 42 |
| 3 | kazakhstan | 6 | 1 | 5 | 12 |
| 4 | south korea | 5 | 4 | 16 | 25 |
| 5 | Thailand | 4 | 1 | 1 | 6 |
| 6 | Hong Kong, China | 3 | 4 | 4 | 11 |
| 7 | tajikistan | 2 | 1 | 1 | 4 |
| 8 | India | 1 | 4 | 2 | 7 |
| 9 | Uzbekistan | 1 | 4 | 1 | 6 |
| 10 | Chinese Taipei | 1 | 3 | 5 | 9 |