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India vs Pakistan conflict at Aichi-Nagoya Asian Video games: Arch-rivals can solely meet in medal rounds, intensifying competitors in males’s and girls’s occasions.
India can tackle Pakistan on the Asian Video games solely in a medal encounter (Image credit score: AP)
A marquee India vs Pakistan conflict on the upcoming Aichi-Nagoya Asian Video games is predicted to hold greater than common significance, as in keeping with the attracts, the arch-rivals can solely face one another in medal rounds, with extra fierce competitors anticipated throughout the boys’s and girls’s occasions.
India and Pakistan, the highest two seeded groups within the males’s competitors, might keep away from one another all through the match. In the event that they do meet, it will probably solely be within the gold-medal recreation or the bronze-medal play-off.
The identical draw sample applies to the ladies’s occasion as nicely.
The Asian Video games will happen from Saturday, September 19 to October 4, with the cricket competitors working from September 17 to October 3. The ladies’s video games will probably be performed first, culminating within the closing on September 22, earlier than the boys’s occasion takes over.
The lads’s competitors options 10 groups, whereas eight groups will compete within the girls’s occasion.
India, Pakistan, Bangladesh and Sri Lanka have been seeded into the boys’s quarterfinals, whereas the remaining six groups, together with Afghanistan, will compete within the group stage for a spot within the final eight.
India are in Quarterfinal 2 and can play on September 28, whereas Pakistan will function in Quarterfinal 1 on the identical day. Each groups will face opponents who advance from the group stage.
The semifinal draw means the winners of Quarterfinal 2, the place India are prone to win, will face the winners of Quarterfinal 3. In the meantime, the winners of Quarterfinal 1, with Pakistan anticipated to be concerned, will meet the winners of Quarterfinal 4.
Each semifinals are scheduled for October 1.
This implies the standard rivals can meet solely within the gold-medal recreation or the bronze-medal play-off, with each fixtures scheduled for Saturday, October 3. Afghanistan, Nepal, Hong Kong, China, Japan, Malaysia and Oman will compete within the group stage.
Within the girls’s competitors, high seeds India are all set to face Japan within the quarterfinals. Pakistan are seeded fourth, behind Sri Lanka and Bangladesh. If India advance to the semifinals, they may face both Bangladesh or Hong Kong, China.
Pakistan, in the meantime, will face Thailand within the quarterfinals, with a possible semifinal in opposition to both Sri Lanka or Malaysia in the event that they advance. Consequently, India and Pakistan can meet solely within the closing or the bronze-medal play-off, each scheduled for September 22.
August 13, 2026, 09:56 IST
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