Asian Games Cricket Men's T20I 2023 Predictions & Betting Tips

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The 19th edition of the Asian Games is ready to have Cricket as one of the sports. The Hangzhou Asian Games 2023 will have Men’s T20I competition with 15 teams and a total of 17 matches to take place at the Pingfeng Campus Cricket Field which is situated in the city of Hangzhou in China.

The top 4 teams from Asia - India, Pakistan, Sri Lanka and Bangladesh are placed directly in the quarter finals round. They are seeded from the ICC T20I team rankings.

With the Cricket World Cup around the corner, the top teams will send their second string teams to the Asian Games.

After analysing the squads and current form, we are backing India to win the gold medal in the Asian Games Cricket Men’s T20I tournament.

The squad will be led by CSK top-order batter Ruturaj Gaikwad. The batting line-up is equipped with power-hitter batters like Tilak Varma, Rinku Singh, Yashasvi Jaiswal, Rahul Tripathi, Shivam Dube, Jitesh Sharma and Prabhsimran Singh. They all have a good exposure to the IPL and can be destructive in the Asian Games.

In the bowling department, the squad has brilliant pacers Avesh Khan, Arshdeep Singh, Mukesh Kumar, Akash Deep and the spin attack has Ravi Bishnoi, Shahbaz Ahmed and Washington Sundar.

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Asian Games Men's T20I 2024 Prediction

India

Captain: Ruturaj Gaikwad
Key Players: Ruturaj Gaikwad, Yashasvi Jaiswal, Shivam Dube, Ravi Bishnoi, Arshdeep Singh 

India Squad Asian Games Men's T20I 2023

Tilak Varma, Rahul Tripathi, Rinku Singh, Yashasvi Jaiswal, Ruturaj Gaikwad, Washington Sundar, Shahbaz Ahmed, Shivam Dube, Jitesh Sharma, Prabhsimran Singh, Ravi Bishnoi, Mukesh Kumar, Avesh Khan, Arshdeep Singh, Akash Deep

Pakistan

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Squad yet to be announced.

Sri Lanka

Captain: Sahan Arachichige
Key Players: Lasith Croospulle, Ashen Bandara, Nuwanidu Fernando, Nuwan Thushara, Sahan Arachchige

Sri Lanka Squad Asian Games Men's T20I 2023

Lasith Croospulle, Shevon Daniel, Ashen Bandara, Sahan Arachchige (c), Ahan Wickramasinghe, Lahiru Udara (WK), Ravindu Fernando, Ranitha Liyanarachchi, Nuwanidu Fernando, Sachitha Jayatilaka, Vijayakanth Viyaskanth, Nimesh Vimukthi, Lahiru Samarakoon, Nuwan Thushara, Isitha Wijesundera

Bangladesh

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Afghanistan

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China

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Mongolia

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Cambodia

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Japan

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Nepal

Captain: Rohit Paudel
Key Players: Rohit Paudel, Kushal Bhurtel, Sandeep Lamichhane, Sompal Kami, Aasif Sheikh

Nepal Squad Asian Games Men's T20I 2023

Rohit Paudel (c), Aasif Sheikh, Dipendra Singh Airee, Binod Bhandari, Kushal Bhurtel, Karan KC, Kushal Malla, Pratis GC, Sompal Kami, Abinash Bohara, Gulsan Jha, Sandeep Lamichhane, Lalit Rajbanshi, Sundeep Jora, Bibek Yadav

Hong Kong

Captain: Nizakat Khan
Key Players: Nizakat Khan, Adil Mehmood, Mohammad Ghazanfar, Anas Khan, Babar Hayat

Hong Kong Squad Asian Games Men's T20I 2023

Hamed Khan, Niaz Ali, Babar Hayat, Anas Khan, Mohammad Ghazanfar, Akbar Khan, Nizakat Khan (c), Shahid Wasif, Muhammad Khan, Nasrulla Rana, Shiv Mathur, Ayush Shukla, Adil Mehmood, Hassan Khan Mohammad, Ehsan Khan

Singapore

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Malaysia

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Bahrain

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Maldives

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Asian Games Men's T20I 2024 Group Stage Prediction

We are backing Afghanistan, Nepal, Hong Kong and Singapore to reach the quarter finals of the Asian Games Cricket Men’s T20I.

About Asian Games Men's T20I

The 19th edition of Asia’s multi-sport event - Asian Games is set to take place in September-October in Hangzhou, China. Cricket will be one of the 37 sports in the Asian Games 2023.

Asian Games Men’s T20I will feature 15 teams. The tournament will kick-off on 27th September and the final match will take place on 7th October, 2023 at Pingfeng Campus Cricket Field in Hangzhou.

Bangladesh and Sri Lanka have won the gold medal in Cricket in Asian Games before. The men’s Indian cricket team will be participating in the tournament for the first time and the BCCI will send a second-string team squad which will be led by top-order batter Ruturaj Gaikwad.

4 teams - India, Pakistan, Sri Lanka and Bangladesh have been placed in the quarter finals already as they are the top 4 Asian teams in the ICC’s T20I team rankings.

Asian Games Cricket Men's T20I 2023 Teams

A total of 15 nations will participate in the Men’s T20I cricket tournament in the Hangzhou Asian Games. Top 4 teams - India, Pakistan, Sri Lanka and Bangladesh have been seeded from the ICC T20I teams rankings. The rest 11 teams will play the group stage round and these top 4 teams will qualify straight to the quarter finals.

Asian Games Cricket 2023 Men’s T20I Teams

India, Pakistan, Sri Lanka, Bangladesh, Afghanistan, Mongolia, Cambodia, Japan, Nepal, Hong Kong, Singapore, Thailand, Malaysia, Bahrain and Maldives

Asian Games Cricket Men's T20I 2023 Format

The Asian Games Cricket will follow the T20I format for the gameplay in which each side gets 20 overs and a single goes on for approx. 3 hours.

Coming to the tournament format, there will be 15 teams out of which 4 teams have been given the ticket straight to the quarter finals.

After the end of the group stage, the top team from each group will advance to the quarter finals to face the top teams - India, Pakistan, Sri Lanka and Bangladesh.

The winners of the 4 quarter finals will advance to the semi-finals.

The semi-finals will decide the 2 finalists who will face each other on 7th October to win the gold medal. The runner-up team will be awarded the silver medal.

The 2 losing teams from the semi-finals will fight each other for the bronze medal on 7th October.