Feng's win over Emiko Homma of Japan in the women's 68-kilogram division helped China surpass the 183 golds it won in 1990 at Beijing; the last time it hosted the Olympic-style Continental Games.

“Yesterday I was reading the news and they were talking about China winning the 184th gold medal, but I never expected that it would be me,” Feng said.

On the penultimate day of the games, Bangladesh collected its first gold medal ever at an Asian Games, and finished off the feel-good story of the games when Mohammad Shabbir clobbered consecutive sixes off Karim Khan Sadeq to lead his team to a narrow win over Afghanistan in the cricket final.

Cricket is making its debut at the games and Afghanistan, which is relatively new to the game, was a surprise finalist after it upset hot favorite Pakistan in the semis.

That semifinal win sparked celebrations in war-torn Afghanistan, but the celebrations will be Dhaka instead on Friday night after their team reached 119 for five, overhauling Afghanistan's 118 for eight, with three balls to spare.

“I am happy with today's silver. It means a lot to all our people back home, who are badly affected with the war,” Nabi said. “Even though we lost the gold today, this silver medal will give enough inspiration to our administrators to start building playing facilities.” Pakistan beat Sri Lanka by six wickets to win the bronze medal in a competition that was diminished by the absence of regional powerhouse India.

The cricket was among 48 gold medals to be awarded Friday, the penultimate day of competition. There are only five golds on offer on the last day Saturday.

China's only aim for Guangzhou was to beat the 166 gold medals it won at Doha, Qatar in the 2006 edition.

Japan, meanwhile, has lost hope of overhauling South Korea for second place.

Their biggest success today for China came when veteran center Wang Zhizhi blocked a shot and scored on an offensive rebound in the waning seconds to help China beat South Korea 77-71 and retain their basketball title.

Wang's late game heroics ended a three-point barrage by the South Koreans who had closed a 12-point gap in the last four minutes to 71-74 with 30 seconds left.
 

The host nation also completed a clean-sweep of all 10 diving gold medals, reinforcing their total control of the sport, with He Zi winning the women's 3m springboard and Cao Yuan taking the men's 10m platform.

Other title showdowns saw Chinese women beat Japan in the handball decider with South Korea taking the men's honors.

On the final day of athletics, Bahrain's Ethiopian-born Mimi Gebregeiorges won the women's 5,000m ahead of Indian pair Preeja Sreedharan and Kavita Raut.

"I just killed myself to win," she said after adding the title to her 1,500m bronze.

Bahrain's Bilisuma Shugi Gelassa, another Ethiopian, clinched the men's 10,000m after a late burst of speed in the final 30m saw him pip Qatar's Kenyan-born Essa Rashed at the line.

China won the men's 4x100m relay and Thailand unexpectedly took the women's title, while another Chinese, Li Yanxi, leapt furthest to win the men's triple jump and Uzbekistan's Svetlana Radzivil claimed high jump honors.

In the boxing ring, Syria's Mohammad Ghossoun strolled to the heavyweight title while Indian golden boy Vijender Singh took the middleweight crown.

Meanwhile, lightning-quick reigning Olympic champion Zou Shiming of China successfully defended his light-flyweight gold and Thailand's Worapoj Petchkoom became bantamweight champion.

Two upset defeats dented Japan's reputation as the powerhouse in women's wrestling, with world champions Kyoko Hamaguchi and Mio Nishimaki out of contention after being pinned in their second-round matches Friday.

That came on top of a loss the previous day for seven-time world champion Hitomi Sakamoto.

But Soari Yoshida restored some order, claiming the 55-kilogram class for her unprecedented third straight Asiad title — and 119th consecutive win.

The women's wrestlers are celebrities in Japan, which needed a flurry of gold on the last two days of competition to match the 50 golds the country won at Doha.

South Korea held second place behind China with 75 gold medals, still 28 in front of Japan, which picked up golds from Shingo Nishiki in the men's single free skate in roller sports and world championship medalist Yukifumi Murakami in the javelin.
 

Four golds — in athletics, boxing and kabaddi came India's way on the penultimate day to take the country's tally to 14. With three silvers and four bronzes also in the kitty India's overall medal tally rose to 64, bettering the 57 medals that had been won at the 1982 New Delhi Asian Games.

With 17 silvers and 33 bronzes also adding to the tally, it was India's best performance at the Games, leaving behind the 53 medals (10-17-26) that were won at the 2006 Doha Games.

The women's 4X400 meters relay quartet of Manjeet Kaur, Sini Jose, Ashwini Chidananda and Mandeep Kaur, boxer Vijender Singh and the men's and women's kabaddi teams won golds Friday.

Preeja Sreedharan and Kavita Raut won the silver and bronze in the women's 5000 meters, while boxers Manpreet Singh and Santhosh Kumar Virothu claimed a silver apiece.

The athletes did the country proud, coming second only to China with 11 medals (5-2-4). Against this, China had 34 medals (12-14-8). This was all the more remarkable considering that India had won a lone athletics gold, three silvers and four bronzes (11) at the 2006 Doha Asian Games, where the country finished with 53 medals (10-17-26). While boxing brought in nine medals (2-3-4) the shooters and wrestlers only flattered to deceive. Indian wrestlers had won only two bronzes at Doha. The relay quartet, which had won the gold in the 2010 Commonwealth Games, came on top here clocking 3:29.02 seconds.