India's women strike cricket gold on debut at Asian Games

India's players celebrate their victory at the end of the 2022 Asian Games women's final cricket match between Sri Lanka and India in Hangzhou in China's eastern Zhejiang province on Monday, September 25, 2023. - AFP

HANGZHOU (AFP): India struck gold on their Asian Games cricket debut when they beat Sri Lanka by 19 runs in the women's final in Hangzhou on Monday.

They had declined to enter any teams on the two previous occasions cricket had been played at the multi-sport event, at Guangzhou in 2010 and Incheon in 2014.