Cricketers at this month’s Asian Games in Japan will have better accommodation than athletes from many other sports, the head of Japanese cricket said on Wednesday (September 2, 2026), after concerns were raised about a lack of five-star hotels for players.
The cricket tournament is being run by the Asian Games organising committee in collaboration with the Asian Cricket Council (ACC). A Sri Lankan official said this week that some of Asia’s top teams had raised doubts over facilities and accommodation at the Games, which are taking place in Nagoya and the wider Aichi area from September 19. Organisers said last week that accommodation was already stretched to the limit after the number of Asian Games athletes ballooned to 17,000. Media reports in India said the country’s cricket board was unhappy with arrangements and might send a second-string squad after originally naming 15 players led by Shreyas Iyer and including 15-year-old rising star Vaibhav Sooryavanshi.
Naoki Alex Miyaji, the CEO of the Japan Cricket Association, told AFP that the two bodies had been discussing accommodation options “for a long time”. “The participating teams in cricket are being offered hotel accommodation,” Miyaji said on Wednesday. Miyaji said that Japanese organisers “only had 17 months to prepare and had to start from scratch” for cricket at the Games.