Aichi-Nagoya, Sept. 27 -- Threat of rains looms over India's Asian Games campaign opener against Afghanistan on Tuesday, according to Cricinfo.

Shreyas Iyer's men and back-to-back T20 World Cup champions India will be eyeing the successful defence of their Asian Games gold medal and a double medal in cricket for India at the second successive Asian Games edition.

However, there is heavy rain expected at Nisshin on Monday with a chance that the game could face a complete washout. In that case, India will reach the semifinals because of higher seeding on the basis of their T20I Ranking. The last two matches on the ground, played on Friday, between Malaysia and Oman (complete washout) and Japan versus Nepal (no result) were also affected b...