{"id":55582,"date":"2026-09-26T13:09:39","date_gmt":"2026-09-26T07:24:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/?p=55582"},"modified":"2026-09-26T13:09:39","modified_gmt":"2026-09-26T07:24:39","slug":"20th-asian-games-nepal-to-face-sri-lanka-in-quarter-finals","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/20th-asian-games-nepal-to-face-sri-lanka-in-quarter-finals\/","title":{"rendered":"20th Asian Games: Nepal to face Sri Lanka in Quarter-finals"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;\" class=\"sharethis-inline-share-buttons\" ><\/div><p>Kathmandu, Sept 26: Nepal has secured a spot in the quarter-finals of men&#8217;s cricket under the 20th Asian Games underway in Japan.<\/p>\n<p>Nepal qualified for the quarter-finals as the winner of Group &#8216;A&#8217;, with a win and a draw.<br \/>\nIn the group stage, Nepal defeated Afghanistan by 5 wickets and shared points with hosts Japan after the match was halted due to rain.<\/p>\n<p>Nepal will now play against Sri Lanka in the quarter-finals on Tuesday. In today&#8217;s match against Japan, Nepal was invited to bat after losing the toss. The match was reduced to 15 overs due to rain, and Nepal scored 149 runs for the loss of 4 wickets.<\/p>\n<p>In the match held at the Korogi Sports Park in Nagoya, Sandeep Jora and Lokesh Bam scored half-century. Jora scored an unbeaten 57 off 32 balls, including five fours and three sixes, while Lokesh scored an unbeaten 52 off 22 balls, hitting six sixes and one four.<\/p>\n<p>Additionally, Aasif Sheikh contributed 21 runs off 15 balls, including one six and one four. For Japan, Ibrahim Takahashi, Declan Suzuki, Jake Kusuda-Nairn, and Reo Sakurano-Thomas each claimed one wicket.<\/p>\n<p>Japan however did not get an opportunity to bat, as the match was cancelled due to rain, and both sides shared a point each.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Kathmandu, Sept 26: Nepal has secured a spot in the quarter-finals of men&#8217;s cricket under the 20th Asian Games underway in Japan. Nepal qualified for the quarter-finals as the winner of Group &#8216;A&#8217;, with a win and a draw. In the group stage, Nepal defeated Afghanistan by 5 wickets and shared points with hosts Japan [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":55583,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-55582","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55582"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=55582"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55582\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":55585,"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55582\/revisions\/55585"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/55583"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=55582"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=55582"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=55582"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}