Archive · 23 Sep 2026
India Defend Asian Games Women’s Cricket Gold Against Sri Lanka
India’s women’s cricket team won the gold medal at the 2026 Asian Games.
They beat Sri Lanka by 147 runs in the final.
India scored 216 runs after batting first.
Smriti Mandhana scored 79 runs and Shafali Verma scored 48.
They made 99 runs together at the start of the innings.
Richa Ghosh then scored 49 runs without being dismissed.
India’s bowlers stopped Sri Lanka at 69 runs.
This was India’s second straight Asian Games gold medal in women’s cricket.
India defeated Sri Lanka by 147 runs in the 2026 Asian Games women’s cricket final in Japan.
India posted a record 216/3, its highest total in Women’s Asian Games history and a women’s T20 final.
Smriti Mandhana scored 79 off 45 balls, while Shafali Verma made 48 and shared a 99-run opening stand with Mandhana.
Richa Ghosh struck an unbeaten 49 off 22 balls to lift India beyond 200 runs.
Sri Lanka were bowled out for 69, with Deepti Sharma taking three wickets and Shafali Verma, Shreyanka Patil and Sree Charani taking two each.
- Who
- India’s women’s cricket team and Sri Lanka’s women’s cricket team; Mithun Manhas and Sachin Tendulkar congratulated India.
- What
- India won the women’s cricket gold medal by defeating Sri Lanka by 147 runs.
- When
- Tuesday, September 22, 2026.
- Where
- The 2026 Asian Games in Japan.
- Why
- India won after scoring 216/3 and bowling Sri Lanka out for 69.
- Result
- India defeated Sri Lanka by 147 runs.
- Competition
- Women’s cricket final, 2026 Asian Games.
- India’s score
- 216/3, a record total in Women’s Asian Games history and a women’s T20 final.
- Sri Lanka’s score
- 69 all out.
- Top India scorer
- Smriti Mandhana: 79 off 45 balls, including seven sixes and five fours.
- Opening partnership
- Shafali Verma and Smriti Mandhana added 99 runs.
- Leading bowler
- Deepti Sharma took three wickets.
- Medal significance
- India’s second successive Asian Games gold medal in women’s cricket and its first gold medal of the ongoing Games.