HANGZHOU, China (AP) — India picked up the gold medal in males’s cricket on Saturday on the Asian Video games after the ultimate in opposition to Afghanistan was halted by rain.
India was the upper seeded crew going into the ultimate, and officers awarded the medal utilizing that logic with the video games closing on Sunday.
It was Afghanistan’s first silver medal at these Video games after profitable 4 bronze. It has not received a gold.
After India received the toss and bowled first, Afghanistan was 112-5 off 18.2 overs when rain pressured the gamers from the sphere in Hangzhou. Persistent rain prevented any additional play and the umpires known as the match off.
India made a clear sweep of the cricket competitions at these Video games after its ladies’s crew additionally received gold, beating Sri Lanka by 19 runs within the closing.
SOUTH KOREA — NO MILITARY
South Korea defeated Japan 2-1 within the males’s gold-medal soccer sport, a victory that offers the profitable gamers an exemption from army service.
All male gold-medal winners on the Video games are, by South Korean regulation, granted exemptions from the 18 to 21 months of army that every one able-bodied males should begin by the point they flip 28. Olympic medals additionally do the trick.
Cho Younger-wook scored the winner within the 56th minute, making him a hero for your complete crew.
Kotaro Uchino scored within the 2nd for Japan, and Jeong Woo-yeong equalized within the twenty seventh.
On the 2018 Asian Video games in Jakarta, Indonesia, Son Heung-min led South Korea to gold, which earned him the best to remain at English Premier League crew Tottenham Hotspur.
CLOSING CEREMONY
The Asian Video games shut their two-week run on Sunday with three gold medals to be awarded on the ultimate day — two in karate and one in inventive swimming.
China received a report 416 medals on the 2010 Video games in Guangzhou and won’t surpass that complete. It had 375 medals general by a lot of the play on Saturday.
China’s state-run Xinhua information company reported that Chinese language Premier Li Qiang will attend Sunday’s closing ceremony in Hangzhou. It cited the international ministry spokesperson. President Xi Jinping attended the opening ceremony on Sept. 23.
The 2026 Video games will likely be held in Nagoya, Japan.
VOLLEYBALL
China defeated Japan within the ladies’s gold-medal sport, profitable 3-0. China took the primary sport 25-15 after which took the final two by the identical rating of 25-21. Thailand defeated Vietnam 3-0 for the bronze.
Earlier, Iran took the boys’s gold by beating China 3-1. Japan received the bronze, topping Qatar 3-1.
DISTANCE SWIMMING
After Saturday’s 10-kilometer distance swim, China’s Zhang Ziyang edged fellow Chinese language Lan Tianchen by a mere four-tenths of a second to take gold. The profitable time was 1 hour, 55 minutes, 45.8 seconds. Lan completed in 1:55.46.2. Bronze went to Park Jae-hun of South Korea.
Zhang swam in pool occasions, too, however did not win a medal there.
“I carried out common within the swimming pool so I can say that this medal immediately is likely one of the greatest surprises of the Asian Video games for me,” he mentioned.
China’s Wu Shutong received gold on Friday within the ladies’s portion of the 10-kilometer swim.
ARCHERY
India picked up two golds on Saturday with 4 up for grabs. China and South Korea received the opposite two.
India’s Jyothi Surekha took gold in ladies’s compound with silver for South Korea’s So Char-won. India additionally received the boys’s compound with gold for Abhishek Verma and silver for compatriot Ojas Pravin Deotale.
BASEBALL
South Korea defeated Taiwan 2-0 to take the baseball gold. South Korea scored the one two runs of the sport within the second inning to seal the win. Japan took bronze, beating China 4-3
ARTISTIC SWIMMING
China took gold within the ladies’s duet behind Wang Liuyi and Wang Wang Qianyi. Tomoka Sato, Mashiro Yasunaga and Moe Higa teamed up for silver for Japan, and Yasmin Tuyakova and Anna Pushkina earned the bronze for Kazakhstan.
The crew free routine medal will likely be selected Sunday.
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