Asian Games 2026: Men’s 15-member squad announced

The Pakistan Cricket Board (PCB) has announced a 15-member roster for the Asian Games 2026 cricket competition with opener Sahibzada Farhan named skipper of the side.

The cricket tournament at the Asian Games will be hosted in Aichi-Nagoya, Japan from September 24 to October 3 with 10 teams contending for the gold medal. The wider Games are slated to continue from September 19 to October 4.

Farhan, 30, has played 46 T20Is for Pakistan and scored 1,305 runs, including two hundreds and 10 fifties. Pakistan have picked Abdul Samad, who has played five T20Is for the country, as the vice-captain of the side.

Four players in the 15-member team including Akif Javed, Ali Raza, Maaz Sadaqat and Saad Masood are yet to represent Pakistan in the T20I format.

Also, 14 of the 15 players picked for the Asian Games squad are part of the NCA White-Ball Camp which starts in Lahore from Monday, 15 June.

Pakistan Team for Asian Games 2026:

Captain: Sahibzada Farhan. Vice-captain: Abdul Samad. Players: Abrar Ahmed, Ahmed Daniyal, Akif Javed, Ali Raza, Arafat Minhas, Haider Ali, Hasan Nawaz, Maaz Sadaqat, Mohammad Salman Mirza, Saad Masood, Saim Ayub, Sufyan Moqim and Wicketkeeper: Usman Khan.

Support Staff:

Mike Hesson (head coach), Ashley Noffke (bowling coach), Shane McDermott (fielding coach), Muhammad Tahir (physiotherapist), Imran Ullah (trainer) and Usman Hashmi (analyst-cum-team operations co-ordinator).