{"id":7620,"date":"2026-10-03T09:24:31","date_gmt":"2026-10-03T09:24:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/channel1.in\/index.php\/2026\/10\/03\/india-defeat-pakistan-to-win-second-consecutive-asian-games-cricket-gold-medal\/"},"modified":"2026-10-03T09:24:31","modified_gmt":"2026-10-03T09:24:31","slug":"india-defeat-pakistan-to-win-second-consecutive-asian-games-cricket-gold-medal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/channel1.in\/index.php\/2026\/10\/03\/india-defeat-pakistan-to-win-second-consecutive-asian-games-cricket-gold-medal\/","title":{"rendered":"India Defeat Pakistan To Win Second Consecutive Asian Games Cricket Gold Medal"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>India defeated Pakistan by 19 runs here on Saturday to clinch their second consecutive gold medal in the Asian Games men&#8217;s cricket event.<\/p>\n<p>After posting 211 for six on a batting-friendly track, India restricted Pakistan to 192 for six despite a gusty 96 (50 balls; 7 sixes, 5 fours) from Hasan Nawaz.<\/p>\n<p>Axar Patel was the pick among the bowlers for India with figures of 4-0-29-2.<\/p>\n<p>Earlier in the match, half-centuries from Abhishek Sharma (61) and Tilak Varma (51 not out) powered India to a daunting total here at the Korogi Sports Park.<\/p>\n<p>India&#8217;s women&#8217;s team had also successfully defended its gold earlier in the mega-event.<\/p>\n<p>India 211\/6 in 20 overs (Abhishek Sharma 61, Tilak Varma 51 not out; A Minhas 2\/25, A Daniyal 2\/43)<\/p>\n<p>Pakistan 192\/6 in 20 overs (Hasan Nawaz 96; Axar Patel 2\/29) by 19 runs. (Agencies)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>India defeated Pakistan by 19 runs here on Saturday to clinch their second consecutive gold medal in the Asian Games men&#8217;s cricket event. After posting 211&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":7619,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[25],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7620","post","has-post-thumbnail","category-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/channel1.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7620","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/channel1.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/channel1.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/channel1.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/channel1.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7620"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/channel1.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7620\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/channel1.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7619"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/channel1.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7620"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/channel1.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7620"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/channel1.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7620"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}