Pakistan's women's cricket team secured the bronze medal at the Asian Games in Nisshin, Japan, defeating Bangladesh by 31 runs on Tuesday. Captain Fatima Sana anchored the innings with a counter-attacking 45 off 30 balls after Pakistan collapsed mid-innings, helping them post 145 for eight, before Umm-e-Hani's career-best figures of three wickets for just 10 runs restricted Bangladesh to 114 for seven. The win delivers a measure of redemption for Pakistan, who had lost the bronze-medal match to the same opponents at the 2022 Asian Games in Hangzhou, and marks the team's third medal in the event following gold-medal victories in 2010 and 2014.