Cricket cracker to hammer blow: Five Asian Games moments

HANGZHOU: The Asian Games wrapped up on Sunday (Oct 8) after two weeks of thrilling sporting highs and lows in Hangzhou.

AFP Sport highlights five memorable moments from the Olympic-sized event, which features 12,000 athletes in 40 sports across 54 venues:

Nepal became the first men's team to score more than 300 runs in T20 international cricket as they rewrote the record books against part-timers Mongolia.

They bludgeoned 314-3 in their 20 overs, beating the previous highest of 278-3 by Afghanistan against Ireland in 2019.

Teenager Kushal Malla crashed the fastest T20 international century, off 34 balls, and ended up 137 not out off 50.

Dipendra Singh Airee finished the innings in ridiculous fashion. He raced to his fifty off nine balls, another T20 world record, with eight sixes.

Nepal's 26 sixes were also the most scored in a T20 innings.

E-sports made its debut as a medal event at the Asian Games - a key step that could lead to inclusion in the Olympics.

Audiences of overwhelmingly young spectators packed out a 4,500-capacity arena in the hope of catching one of their heroes, with the most popular undoubtedly South Korea's Lee "Faker" Sang-hyeok.

China made history with the first e-sports gold, beating Malaysia in the smartphone game Arena of Valor.

"The audience who loves eSports and the veterans in the e-sports industry have been looking forward to this for a long time," said China's captain Luo Siyuan.

South Korea's red-faced rollerskater Jung Cheol-won had nowhere to hide after coasting into an early celebration, a "big mistake" that cost gold.

As Jung, the anchor in the 3,000m relay, raised his arms to celebrate, Taiwan's Huang Yu-lin lunged his skate forward to cross the line first by one-hundredth of a second for what he