Archive · 1 Oct 2026
Ishan Kishan Powers India Into Asian Games Cricket Final
India played Sri Lanka in the Asian Games cricket semi-final.
India lost four wickets while scoring 87 runs, which made the match difficult.
Ishan Kishan then played a very strong innings.
He scored 80 runs without getting out from 46 balls.
His big hits helped India reach a competitive total.
India’s bowlers then helped the team win by 124 runs.
This victory sent India to the final against Pakistan.
Kishan also set a new Indian record for eight fifty-plus scores in T20Is in one calendar year.
He is close to breaking India’s record for the most T20I runs in a calendar year.
Ishan Kishan scored an unbeaten 80 from 46 balls in India’s 124-run semi-final victory over Sri Lanka.
His innings featured four boundaries and five sixes, rescuing India after they fell to 87/4.
India advanced to the Asian Games men’s cricket final, where they will face Pakistan.
Kishan’s eighth fifty-plus T20I score of 2026 moved him past Virat Kohli’s previous Indian record of seven in a calendar year.
Kishan has scored 985 T20I runs in 28 matches this year and is 80 runs short of Suryakumar Yadav’s Indian calendar-year record.
- Who
- India, led by Ishan Kishan’s unbeaten 80, defeated Sri Lanka in the Asian Games men’s cricket semi-final.
- What
- India won by 124 runs and reached the final against Pakistan.
- When
- The match and the reported T20I milestones took place in 2026.
- Where
- The match was played in the Asian Games men’s cricket competition; the article does not specify the venue.
- Why
- Kishan’s innings helped India recover from 87/4 and post a competitive total before India’s bowlers secured the win.
- Result
- India defeated Sri Lanka by 124 runs.
- Kishan’s score
- 80 not out from 46 balls.
- Kishan’s boundaries
- Four fours and five sixes.
- T20I scores in 2026
- Eight fifty-plus scores, surpassing Virat Kohli’s seven in 2016.
- Kishan’s 2026 runs
- 985 runs in 28 T20Is, at an average of 37.88 and a strike rate of 171.3.
- Indian calendar-year record
- Suryakumar Yadav scored 1,164 T20I runs in 2022.
- Overall calendar-year record
- Austria’s Karanbir Singh scored 1,488 T20I runs in 2025.