India won their first gold medal of the 2026 Asian Games after the women’s cricket team defeated Sri Lanka by 147 runs in the T20 final. The victory took India’s medal tally to seven. India posted a strong total before bowling Sri Lanka out for 69. The men’s badminton team also assured India of a medal after beating Japan 3-0 in the quarter-finals. Lakshya Sen led the victory with a comeback win over Kodai Naraoka, while Satwiksairaj Rankireddy and Chirag Shetty, and Ayush Shetty won their matches. Roshibina Devi also entered the wushu semi-finals, assuring another medal for India. (PC: X)

India secured a medal in the men’s badminton team event at the Asian Games after beating Japan 3-0 in the quarter-finals on Tuesday. Lakshya Sen produced a strong comeback against world No. 7 Kodai Naraoka, losing the first game 11-21 before winning the next two 21-5, 21-19. His 66-minute victory gave India the lead. Satwiksairaj Rankireddy and Chirag Shetty then defeated Hoki Takuro and Kobayashi Yugo 21-18, 24-22 in doubles. Ayush Shetty sealed the tie with a 21-10, 21-19 win over Koki Watanabe. India will face China or Korea in Wednesday’s semi-final. The result assures India a second consecutive Asian Games men’s team medal. (PC: India Today)

Indian rowers at the 2026 Asian Games have threatened to go on strike after several last-minute changes were made to event line-ups, just two days before rowing competitions begin. The rowing events were delayed from September 20 because of a typhoon warning and are now scheduled to start on September 23. Team management reshuffled crews across events, including double sculls, quadruple sculls, single sculls, men’s pair and coxless four. Rowers reportedly questioned the changes and raised concerns about the lack of communication. Some athletes considered boycotting training sessions as efforts continued to resolve the dispute before competition begins. (PC: X)

India retained their women’s cricket gold medal at the 2026 Asian Games after defeating Sri Lanka by 147 runs in the final in Nagoya on Tuesday. India posted a record 216/3 in 20 overs, with Smriti Mandhana scoring 79 off 45 balls. Shafali Verma added 48, while Richa Ghosh finished unbeaten on 49 off 22 balls. Mandhana also became the first woman cricketer to reach 11,000 international runs. Sri Lanka struggled in the chase and were bowled out for 69 in 15.4 overs. Deepti Sharma took three wickets, while Shafali claimed two. India secured their second successive Asian Games women’s cricket gold. (PC: X)

India’s men’s table tennis team exited the 2026 Asian Games after losing 0-3 to South Korea in the pre-quarterfinals. Harmeet Desai went down 1-3 to Jang Woojin in the opening match, before Manush Shah lost a closely contested 2-3 encounter against Oh Junsung. Manav Thakkar then fell 1-3 to An Jaehyun, completing Korea’s clean sweep. India had entered the knockout stage after finishing second in Group F, following wins over Indonesia and Pakistan and a 0-3 defeat to Iran. The team had opted not to field experienced player G Sathiyan against Korea. India had won the men’s team bronze medal at the 2018 Asian Games. The loss ended India’s medal hopes.  

Pakistan secured the women’s cricket bronze medal at the 2026 Asian Games after defeating Bangladesh by 31 runs in the third-place playoff on Tuesday. Pakistan posted 145/8 in 20 overs, with captain Fatima Sana leading the scoring with an unbeaten 45 off 30 balls. Gull Feroza added 31 off 23, while Aliya Riaz contributed 25. Bangladesh struggled during their chase and finished on 114/7. Shamima Akter top-scored with an unbeaten 46 off 45 deliveries, while captain Nigar Sultana made 25. Pakistan’s Umm-e-Hani was the key bowler, taking three wickets for 10 runs in four overs. The result earned Pakistan their first women’s cricket medal at these Asian Games. India and Sri Lanka will contest the gold medal.

Cricketer Vipraj Nigam, who could make his India debut against Japan in Tuesday's one-off T20I, is accused of sexual assault under the pretext of marriage. The woman who filed the complaint sat outside his home for hours on Sunday, saying she wanted to meet him. Nigam is in Japan with India's Asian Games squad, called up to replace injured spinner Varun Chakaravarthy. His father spoke to her by phone and said they would talk after a week. She told Jagran she did not want a dispute. Nigam had earlier filed a complaint against her, alleging threats. (PC: X)

India Women will play Sri Lanka in the Asian Games 2026 cricket final on Tuesday, with a chance to defend the gold medal won in Hangzhou. The match starts at 10:30 AM IST. Both teams are unbeaten. Shafali Verma hit the first century in Asian Games history, an unbeaten 100 off 49 balls, in the semi-final against Bangladesh, which India won by 114 runs. Shree Charani has taken six wickets. For Sri Lanka, captain Chamari Athapaththu has scored 146 runs and taken six wickets. India lead the head-to-head 26-5. Sony LIV will stream the match.

India’s women’s and men’s table tennis teams beat Pakistan 3-0 at the Asian Games, while players from both sides exchanged handshakes and smiles before and after their matches. Indian women players Sutirtha Mukherjee, Sreeja Akula and Syndrela Das greeted Pakistan’s Aleena, Fatima and Kalsoom Khan before their Group F tie and repeated the gesture after each match. The men’s teams also shared warm handshakes, with Pakistan’s Muhammad Khan and India’s Harmeet Desai smiling after a missed shot, while Muhammad later patted Payas Jain’s back. The report contrasted table tennis with cricket, where India has maintained a no-handshake approach since the Pahalgam attack.

Vedaant Madhavan narrowly missed the men’s 4x200m freestyle relay final at the Asian Games after India finished ninth among 13 teams with a time of 7:24.32. The Indian quartet of Vedaant, Sajan Prakash, Dhakshan Shashikumar and Aneesh Sunil missed eighth-placed Qatar by 0.2 seconds. Vedaant later wrote that he missed the final by 0.2 seconds and was the best Indian by 0.5 seconds. His father, actor R. Madhavan, shared the update with a gratitude emoticon. Vedaant will compete in the 200m freestyle on September 23 and 200m backstroke on September 25. Meanwhile, Srihari Nataraj finished 10th in the 50m backstroke final, while China’s Jiayu Xu set a Games record. (PC: NDTV)