{"id":436889,"date":"2026-09-29T08:17:52","date_gmt":"2026-09-29T02:32:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/radionepalonline.com\/en\/?p=436889"},"modified":"2026-09-29T08:17:57","modified_gmt":"2026-09-29T02:32:57","slug":"nepal-knocked-out-of-asian-games-after-sri-lanka-match-abandoned","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/radionepalonline.com\/en\/2026\/09\/29\/436889.html","title":{"rendered":"Nepal knocked out of Asian Games after Sri Lanka match abandoned"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Kathmandu, Sept 29:<\/strong> Nepal\u2019s campaign in the men\u2019s cricket tournament at the 20th Asian Games has ended after its quarter-final match against Sri Lanka was abandoned due to rain.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The quarter-final was scheduled to be played today at Korogi Sports Park in Nagoya, Japan. However, persistent rainfall prevented the match from getting underway, with even the toss unable to take place.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The Cricket Association of Nepal (CAN) confirmed the cancellation of the match due to adverse weather conditions.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Under the tournament rules, when a knockout match cannot be played, the team placed higher in the T20 International rankings advances to the next round. Sri Lanka, ranked ninth in the current T20I rankings, therefore progressed to the semi-finals, while Nepal, ranked 14th, was eliminated.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Rain has continued in Nagoya since Saturday and had also affected Nepal\u2019s final group-stage match against Japan.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Nepal had opened its campaign with a five-wicket victory over Afghanistan before sharing points with Japan in the final group-stage match to advance to the quarter-finals.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Kathmandu, Sept 29: Nepal\u2019s campaign in the men\u2019s cricket tournament at the 20th Asian Games has ended after its quarter-final match against Sri Lanka was abandoned due to rain. The quarter-final was scheduled to be played today at Korogi Sports Park in Nagoya, Japan. However, persistent rainfall prevented the match from getting underway, with even &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":47,"featured_media":436554,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,4,74],"tags":[],"reporter":[],"class_list":["post-436889","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-english","category-en-news","category-sports"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/radionepalonline.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/436889"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/radionepalonline.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/radionepalonline.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radionepalonline.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/47"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radionepalonline.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=436889"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/radionepalonline.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/436889\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":436890,"href":"https:\/\/radionepalonline.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/436889\/revisions\/436890"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radionepalonline.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/436554"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/radionepalonline.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=436889"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radionepalonline.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=436889"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radionepalonline.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=436889"},{"taxonomy":"reporter","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radionepalonline.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/reporter?post=436889"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}