ACT hockey: India beat Pakistan 2-1, remain unbeaten

Highlights:

• Jasprit Bumrah became the first Indian to play T20I cricket in 13 different countries, going past Virat Kohli, Rohit Sharma, and Bhuvneshwar Kumar, who were tied at 12
• The record came in India's Asian Games 2026 semifinal against Sri Lanka at Kōrogi Sports Park, Nisshin, Aichi-Nagoya, on October 1
• India posted 169/7 on the back of Ishan Kishan's unbeaten 80, then bowled Sri Lanka out for just 45 to win by 124 runs
• That 124-run margin is the biggest winning margin ever recorded in a men's T20I semifinal or final, beating India's own 96-run win in the 2026 T20 World Cup final
• Sri Lanka's 45 is also the joint-lowest total ever by a Test-playing nation in T20Is, level with West Indies' 45 against England in 2019
• Since Kohli and Rohit have already retired from T20Is, Bumrah's 13-country record now stands unchallenged by either of them
• The win sends India into the Asian Games final to face Pakistan for gold

India's cricket team didn't just win their Asian Games semifinal on Thursday — they buried Sri Lanka under a scoreline that barely looked like a contest. And somewhere in the middle of that demolition, Jasprit Bumrah quietly walked past two of Indian cricket's biggest names without needing to bowl a single ball to do it.

The moment Bumrah stepped onto the field at Kōrogi Sports Park in Nisshin, Aichi-Nagoya, he became the first Indian cricketer to play T20I cricket in 13 different countries. Japan was the new addition to a list that already included Australia, Bangladesh, England, Ireland, New Zealand, South Africa, Sri Lanka, the UAE, the USA, the West Indies, and Zimbabwe — on top of India itself.