When will the gold medal match be played between India and Sri Lanka women's team in the Asian Games? Pakistan can also win medal

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IND W vs SL W Final: The Indian women's cricket team performed brilliantly and entered the final of the Asian Games 2026 by defeating Bangladesh by a huge margin of 114 runs in the second semi-final. With this, Team India has ensured at least a silver medal. However, there is full hope that the Indian women's cricket team will be able to defend its gold medal. Now India will compete with Sri Lanka in the gold medal i.e. final match. At the same time, the teams of Pakistan and Bangladesh, which suffered defeat in the semi-finals, will now face each other for the bronze medal, due to which Pakistan also has one chance left to win a medal in this tournament.

When will the gold and bronze medal matches be played?

Both the medal matches of women's cricket in the Asian Games 2026 will be played on the same day on 22 September. The day will start with the bronze medal match, in which the teams of Pakistan and Bangladesh will face each other. This match will start at 5:30 am Indian time. Immediately after this, fans will get to see a great match, where the Indian women's team and Sri Lankan women's team will clash for the gold medal. This final match between India and Sri Lanka will start at 10:30 am Indian time.

Shefali Verma played a century innings

In this semi-final match, the explosive style of India's star opener Shefali Verma was seen. He played a stormy century of unbeaten 100 runs in just 49 balls, hitting fours and sixes all around the ground. In this innings, he hit 9 skyscraper sixes and also broke many big records. Thanks to this century of Shefali, India gave a huge target of 196 runs to Bangladesh.

In response, the Bangladeshi team surrendered itself to the Indian bowlers and the entire team was reduced to just 81 runs in 15.4 overs. India sealed its ticket to the final with this big win of 114 runs. In bowling, Deepti Sharma and Nandini Sharma performed lethally for India and took 3 wickets each.

Sri Lanka's Chamari Atapattu played captaincy innings, defeated Pakistan by 8 wickets

In the first semi-final match of the Asian Games 2026, Sri Lankan captain Chamari Atapattu single-handedly changed the match for his team. On the basis of his unbeaten captaincy innings of 83 runs, Sri Lanka defeated Pakistan by 8 wickets. With this resounding victory, the Sri Lankan team has confirmed its place in the finals and secured at least a silver medal for the country. Earlier, after winning the toss and opting to bat, the Pakistani team had scored a strong score of 177 runs on the basis of a brilliant century partnership between Shawal Zulfikar (54 runs) and Ayesha Zafar (71 runs). However, this target proved to be small in front of Chamari's explosive batting and Sri Lanka won in 17.5 overs by losing only 2 wickets.

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